1517 POST-INCUNABULA by Th. Aquinas antique ORIGINAL BINDING FOLIO by Jean Petit

Thomas Aquinas.

Catena vere aurea.

Paris, Jean Petit, 1517

With woodcut printer's mark on the title page and some woodcut initials. 


Original leather (scuffed, bumped, brittle in places, spine with raised bands, restored) with gilt-stamped cover emblem (portrait).

-Adams A 1472. Moreau 1714. –


A fine two-column print by Jean Petit.


The "Catena aurea" was commissioned by Pope Urban IV from Thomas Aquinas in 1262/1263.

It is a collection of exegetical quotations from the Church Fathers in the form of a continuous commentary on the Gospel texts.

Even Thomas's contemporaries recognized the value of this work, which later received the title "Golden Chain."

Title page with a handwritten, 14-line ownership inscription by "Colleg. Paul 1830" and a handwritten, 1-line ownership inscription by "F. Conrad Glandorff."

Folio.  Size 8.5 by 11.5"

Text in Latin
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