![THOMAS AQUINAS (c.1225-1274). Summa contra gentiles, sive De veritate Catholicae fidei. [Strasbourg: Printer of the Henricus Ariminensis (George Reyser?), not after 1474]. [Bound with:] THOMAS AQUINAS. Quaestiones de duodecim quodlibet. [Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner, 15 April 1474].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12141_0094_001(thomas_aquinas_summa_contra_gentiles_sive_de_veritate_catholicae_fidei095622).jpg?w=1)
![THOMAS AQUINAS (c.1225-1274). Summa contra gentiles, sive De veritate Catholicae fidei. [Strasbourg: Printer of the Henricus Ariminensis (George Reyser?), not after 1474]. [Bound with:] THOMAS AQUINAS. Quaestiones de duodecim quodlibet. [Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner, 15 April 1474].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12141_0094_000(thomas_aquinas_summa_contra_gentiles_sive_de_veritate_catholicae_fidei095622).jpg?w=1)
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THOMAS AQUINAS (c.1225-1274). Summa contra gentiles, sive De veritate Catholicae fidei. [Strasbourg: Printer of the Henricus Ariminensis (George Reyser?), not after 1474]. [Bound with:] THOMAS AQUINAS. Quaestiones de duodecim quodlibet. [Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner, 15 April 1474].
First edition of the Summa contra gentiles. Thought to have been written for the use of Dominican missionaries at the request of St Raymond of Penafort to assist them in converting Muslims and Jews in Spain to Christianity, it is a detailed explanation and defense of the Christian faith, set out to refute specific heretical beliefs. A large, fresh copy, bound with the third edition of the Quaestiones. Goff T-190 and T-184.
2 works in one volume, royal folio (398 x 288mm). Without the final blank of the Summa but with the first blank of the Quaestiones, incipit and colophon of the Quaestiones printed in red, contemporary rubrication (small wormholes in first and final quires touching text but with little loss). Contemporary blindstamped calf over thick wooden boards, the stamps not in Kyriss or Schwenke-Sammlung, metal corner and centrepiece, fore-edge clasps, early index tabs, title written along lower edges (neat restorations at spine, clasp leather renewed).
For the possibility that the Ariminensis Press type 1 books should be assigned to Heinrich Eggestein rather than Georg Reyser, see Christie’s, Doheny sale, 22 October 1987, lot 19. Summa: H 1385*; BMC I 77; BSB-Ink T-269; Bod-inc T-160; CIBN T-162; Goff T-190. Quaestiones: HC(Add)*1402; BMC II 406; BSB-Ink T-250; Bod-inc T-145; CIBN T-140; Goff T-184.
First edition of the Summa contra gentiles. Thought to have been written for the use of Dominican missionaries at the request of St Raymond of Penafort to assist them in converting Muslims and Jews in Spain to Christianity, it is a detailed explanation and defense of the Christian faith, set out to refute specific heretical beliefs. A large, fresh copy, bound with the third edition of the Quaestiones. Goff T-190 and T-184.
2 works in one volume, royal folio (398 x 288mm). Without the final blank of the Summa but with the first blank of the Quaestiones, incipit and colophon of the Quaestiones printed in red, contemporary rubrication (small wormholes in first and final quires touching text but with little loss). Contemporary blindstamped calf over thick wooden boards, the stamps not in Kyriss or Schwenke-Sammlung, metal corner and centrepiece, fore-edge clasps, early index tabs, title written along lower edges (neat restorations at spine, clasp leather renewed).
For the possibility that the Ariminensis Press type 1 books should be assigned to Heinrich Eggestein rather than Georg Reyser, see Christie’s, Doheny sale, 22 October 1987, lot 19. Summa: H 1385*; BMC I 77; BSB-Ink T-269; Bod-inc T-160; CIBN T-162; Goff T-190. Quaestiones: HC(Add)*1402; BMC II 406; BSB-Ink T-250; Bod-inc T-145; CIBN T-140; Goff T-184.
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