Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologia

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Toronto, ON, The Robertson Davies Library at Massey College, Gurney Pam 0007

General Information

Title Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologia
Shelfmarks Gurney Pam 0007
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France
Date of Origin 1274-1350
Persons Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225?-1274
Script, Hands

Written in a proto-gothic book hand with some annotations in a contemporary hand. 

General Remarks

Contains text from De loco hominis, qui est Paradisus and De rerum gubernatione in communi: "Praeterea, si locus alquis debetur homini...ad signum directa a sagittante" [1.102.2.2-1.103.1.1] -- See Bibliography 

Original Condition

Page Height 301 mm
Page Width 211 mm
Height of Written Area 257 mm
Width of Written Area 150 – 155 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 71 – 76 mm
Number of Lines 49
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling yes

Current Condition

Dimensions 301 x 211 mm
More about the Current Condition

Trimmed, with red "FV" in lower right corner of recto. Leaf has some flea-bites. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Decoration: 2-line pen-flourished initials in alternating red and blue, flourished in red and black respectively. Running title of each question in red. Paragraph marks in alternating red and blue, rubrics in red. With some marginal annotations.

History

Provenance

France

Persons and Institutions Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225?-1274

Bibliography

  • Opera Omnia Thomae Aquinatis, Leonine Ed., 1.102.2-1.103.1.1.