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145
March 1983
Dawson's Book Shop
$20.00
Thomas Aquinas (1226?-1274)
Catena aurea super quattour evangelistes.
[Ed. by Joannes Andrese de Buxis, Bishop of Aleria]
2nd press 1467-1473 house of Petrus + Franciscus de Maximis Rome: Connadus Sweynhaym + Annoldus Pannartz,
I 1479 ; II 7 Dec. 1420 Royal folio (329x240mm)
Ref: HC 1330 Goff To225 BMC IV 12. Pell 934 Polain3692
Cop Harv CL Exposition of Sacred Scripture
Mazarine #1944 Bible Commentary.
Part I 326 laws 1+250 blank Part II 344 leaves 1 + 185 blanks
Part II, 3 : 46 lines (263-167-8mm) Type 115 R
Capital spaces at beginning of each chapter.
Large text type of rather irregular appearance
(Golden chain) 1st ed. printed in 275 550 copies
See Parma Vol. 11-12 - Catena aurea - A stringing together of selected passages from
the Fathers + ecclesiastical writers ; from Mark on it shows a
remarkably good knowledge of Greek authors; composed
between 1262-68 in English: Oxford 1841-45.
-commentary on the 4 Gospels. Catena - collection, anthology.
Sweynheim + Panorertz introduced printing to Rome from Germany
in 1466, under the patronage of John Andrese, the Bishop of
Aleria, who was the Papal librerian. With considerable endowments
from this benefactor the 2 printers designed their elegant,
"round Roman character" prepared a quantity of fine paper +
inks + began printing. The Bishop of Aleria fournished them
with manuscripts from the Papal library + additionally prepared
the profs + prefaced most of their work. They produced
28 editions of the classics, usually 275 copies in number.
-a continuous exposition of the 4 Gospels, down from
54 Greek + Latin commentators.
Type 115 R - large text type of rather irregular appearance. The
capitals are mostly bread with bold scrifs. Single Qu;
At. shank of A leaning on left, natural B, D leaning to right.
undotted i with curved fost.