THOMAS AQUINAS (THOMAS V. AQUIN) - POST- INCUNABEL.

Opus aureu(m) sancti Thome de Aquino sup(er) quatuo(r) evangelia nuperrime revisu(m) multis purgatu(m) (et) emendatum studiossime ac oium tertiu(um) acordatijs (et) auctoritatum per doctores...Que oia de nouo addita sunt...

      (Venetiæ, Venice, Expensis Octouani Scoti, 13. Noue(m)bris 1521 (fol 313 b)). Folio. Contemp. full limp vellu. Spine with calligraphed title "Catena Aurea" ? Wear to edges.Upper part of spine with a small nick. Vellum of lower left corner on last cover gone (ca. 5x14 cm). Pinters woodcut device on fol 317 b. Ff (14),317 pp. + 1 blank. Titlepage with a large woodcut showing Thomas on a pulpit giving a sermon, King Ludovicus sitting under the pulpit to the left and Avveroes lying on his knees on the floor. With other attendents listening. Titlepage with a small loss of paper at right margin, not affecting the text. A few insignificant brownspots. Old owners name on titlepage. Otherwise clean and fine. Printed in 2 columns. Some fine woodcut initials. Place, printer and publishing year is seen on F 313 b, before the Index. ¶ Scarce early edition of St. Thomas Aquinas' earliest work, his commentaries to the Gospels (Matthaeus, Marcus, Lucas, Johannes) and the Church Fathers. The work is also called "The Golden Chain" or "Catena Aurea"."Thomas of Aquino (1225-1274), the prince of Scholastic Philosophers was born at the castle of Roccasecta, near Aquino in the province of Naples. Having received his elementary education at the abbey of Monte Cassino, in 1239 he went to study the seven liberal artss at the University of Nples. There, five years later, he entered the Order of St. Dominic, against the wishes of his family. From 1245 he studied in Paris under Albert the Great, and when Albert returned to Cologne in 1248 Thomas went with him. In 1252 he was again in in Paris, where, in 1256, after composing the commentaries on the Bible and on the Sentences, he received the degree of Licentiate in Theology, and shortly afterwards that of Master in Theology." (Encycl. Britannica) - Not in Adams, not in Brunet, not in Graesse