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AQUINAS, St thomas
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| Summa Theologiae. (Prima pars, secunde partis) |
Venice; F. Renner de Heilbrun & P. de Bartua, 1478. . Folio. 279 unnumbered ll. 67 a-r10 s12 t-y101-510 lacking b8 blank. Double column, gothic letter, 47 lines and headline. Large red and red and white initials throughout, very large initial letter in red, white and blue, 16th C ms ex libris within. Occasional slight worming, partially erased early armorial library stamp to lower margin of first l. infrequent ink and oil splashing to a few ll, mostly marginal except for table and register, here bound before the text. Generally a very good, clean, large copy in early 17th C Italian mottled calf, spine gilt with red and brown morocco labels, chipped at head, slightly wormed, snail-pattern marbled endpapers, a little contemp. ms marginalia, face inside one illuminated letter. Blue and white marbled edges. One of a handful of works printed by Renner de Heilbrun during his short-lived partnership (1477-8) with Peter de Bartua, and a rare and early edition of the first and second parts of the Summa; Goff's only precursor is by Schoeffer, Mainz 1471. A handsomely produced and very legible edition of the unfinished "Summa Theologiae" of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest work of medieval philosophy and theology and the preeminent expression of that combined system 'scholasticism' which was to dominate European intellectual life into the 16th C. Compiling the main Christian teachings for the uninformed reader, the work draws upon scholars of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and especially the Classical world. It is in three parts of which only the two published here are by Aquinas. Beginning with the nature of God, Creation and the physical universe, it discusses the meaning of human life and the code of Christian ethics, with a third part concerning Christ, God and Man completed after Aquinas' death. Perhaps its most famous presentation is that of the 'Quinquae Viae,' the proofs of the existence of God (ex motu, ex causa, ex contingentia, ex gradu, ex fine). A standard format is adopted for discussing each 'questio', beginning with a series of objections to the forthcoming conclusion, a short counter-statement made with reference to authorities, the argument proper where detailed justifications are used, and concluding with individual responses to any objections. Covering a phenomenal amount of material, from the principles of the Just War and Natural Law to the glorification of Theology - as the most certain of all sciences, being rooted in omniscience -the analysis of human knowledge as a combination of natural reason exemplified by Plato and Aristotle and revelations by faith of natural truth, the Summa Theologicae has exerted unrivalled influence on the intellectual development of Western Christianity, leading Aquinas to be considered one of the greatest theologians and philosophers by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII, in 1567 Pius V ranked the festival of St. Thomas Aquinas with those of the four great Latin fathers. Later, in 1879 Pope Leo XIII stated that Aquinas's theology was a definitive exposition of Catholic doctrine, "equally, it underlies much subsequent theological , political and social inquiry into the nature and position of man in the state or in the universe," Printing and the Mind of Man pp17-18. BMC V 194. Hain 1448. Stilwell T 183. Proctor 4172. Goff T-204. L703
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AQUINAS, St thomas
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| Summa Theologiae. (Prima pars, secunde partis) |
Venice; F. Renner de Heilbrun & P. de Bartua, 1478. Folio. 279 unnumbered ll. 67 a-r10 s12 t-y10 1-510 lacking b8 blank. Double column, gothic letter, 47 lines and headline. Large red and red and white initials throughout, very large initial letter in red, white and blue, 16th C ms ex libris within. Occasional slight worming, partially erased early armorial library stamp to lower margin of first l. infrequent ink and oil splashing to a few ll, mostly marginal except for table and register, here bound before the text. Generally a very good, clean, large copy in early 17th C Italian mottled calf, spine gilt with red and brown morocco labels, chipped at head, slightly wormed, snail-pattern marbled endpapers, a little contemp. ms marginalia, face inside one illuminated letter. Blue and white marbled edges. One of a handful of works printed by Renner de Heilbrun during his short-lived partnership (1477-8) with Peter de Bartua, and a rare and early edition of the first and second parts of the Summa; Goff's only precursor is by Schoeffer, Mainz 1471. A handsomely produced and very legible edition of the unfinished "Summa Theologiae" of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest work of medieval philosophy and theology and the preeminent expression of that combined system 'scholasticism' which was to dominate European intellectual life into the 16th C. Compiling the main Christian teachings for the uninformed reader, the work draws upon scholars of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and especially the Classical world. It is in three parts of which only the two published here are by Aquinas. Beginning with the nature of God, Creation and the physical universe, it discusses the meaning of human life and the code of Christian ethics, with a third part concerning Christ, God and Man completed after Aquinas' death. Perhaps its most famous presentation is that of the 'Quinquae Viae,' the proofs of the existence of God (ex motu, ex causa, ex contingentia, ex gradu, ex fine). A standard format is adopted for discussing each 'questio', beginning with a series of objections to the forthcoming conclusion, a short counter-statement made with reference to authorities, the argument proper where detailed justifications are used, and concluding with individual responses to any objections. Covering a phenomenal amount of material, from the principles of the Just War and Natural Law to the glorification of Theology - as the most certain of all sciences, being rooted in omniscience -the analysis of human knowledge as a combination of natural reason exemplified by Plato and Aristotle and revelations by faith of natural truth, the Summa Theologicae has exerted unrivalled influence on the intellectual development of Western Christianity, leading Aquinas to be considered one of the greatest theologians and philosophers by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII, in 1567 Pius V ranked the festival of St. Thomas Aquinas with those of the four great Latin fathers. Later, in 1879 Pope Leo XIII stated that Aquinas's theology was a definitive exposition of Catholic doctrine, "equally, it underlies much subsequent theological, political and social inquiry into the nature and position of man in the state or in the universe," Printing and the Mind of Man pp17-18. BMC V 194. Hain 1448. Stilwell T 183. Proctor 4172. Goff T-204. L703
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