‎AQUINAS Thomas St.‎
‎S. Thomae Aquinatis Summa totius theologiae in qua quicquid in universis biblis continentur obscuri, quicquid in veterum patrum (ab ipso nascentis ecclesiae initio) monumentis est doctrinae notabilis: quicquid denique vel olim vocatum est, vel hodie vocvocatum est.....per Questiones, & Responsiones explicantur in Tres Partes ab auctore suo Distributa. Edition novissima..‎

‎ Paris, Pierre Chevalier, 1615, format in-folio, coll. pp (12), 212, (8), 212, (16), 335, (1), 218 (2), 178, (208). Complete, identical to USTC 6016377. Title page printed in red & black with large engraved portrait vignet. Printed in two columns, within typographical borderlines, estimated number of characters well over 1.2 million. Bound in contemporary full leather over wooden boards, with two working clasps. Leather with traces of blindstmping. Previously rebacked (19th c. ?), Binding with old soiling and traces of use, only very small loss of leather at the extremities, technically in good order, clasps still working. First 5 leaves with some browning, but in all still a sound copy.. Provenance. With the handwritten ex-dono of the abbott of the Liesse Abbey (Hainaut, Southern Netherlands) Antonius De Winghen. In the upper margin handwritten ex-libris of the Jesuit College of Lier (prov. Antwerpen). With the printed 19th c. libray label of the Jesuit College of Turnhout (founded in 1845). The text of this edition is attributed (without stringent proof) to the English Dominican Trivetus (Nicolaus Triveth) (Norfolk 1250-1334) who had strong ties with Oxford and theology faculty in Paris. The subtitle page of the second part mentions explicitly the Louvain theologist Augustinus Hunnaeus (Bruges 1520 - 1577) He is a lesser known but very important theologian of Louvain University who is credited with forging a link between theology and law.The approbatio of this book refers explicitly to Louvain: date 27th jan. 1575, signed by Cornelius Reynari of Gouda and Johannes Molanus of Louvain. At the end of this book is published a catechism with an approbatio dated 1570 and signed by e.g. Arias Montanus and Robertus Malcotius. . USTC mentions only 4 copies in Anglo-saxon libraries. It is unclear why European libraries were left out. Louvain Theology Faculty has a copy.‎

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