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Aquinas's Opuscula
Hermannus Liechtenstein, 1470
THOMAS AQUINAS (c.1225-1274). Opuscula. Edited, with a life of Saint Thomas, by Antonius Pizamanus. Venice: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September 1490.

A collection of 71 short treatises by the great Aristotelian theologian. HC 1541*; BMC V 358; BSB-Ink T-236; Bod-inc T-140; IGI 9552; Goff T-258; ISTC it00258000.

Median quarto (237 x 172mm). 436 leaves. Paragraph marks and capital strokes in red in the first section [Legenda], red initials throughout (dampstaining, heavier at ends). Modern brown morocco, red edges. Provenance: a few marginal comments and corrections – Hilgenrade, monastery of Benedictine nuns in the diocese of Bremen, by bequest of Gherhardus Brandis, canon of the cathedral of Bremen, 26 March 1518 (inscription) – Martinus Schwartzen, vicar in the cathedral of Minden (inscription dated 1674).

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