Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ALEXANDER OF HALES. Universae theologiae summa. [54], 186; [18], 416; [10], 302; [10], 466 leaves. 4 volumes. Folio, Volume 1 319x215, in later limp vellum, Volumes 2-4 323x221 mm, in contemporary limp vellum with calligraphic spine titles in ink, recased, endpapers renewed; contents toned or browned, particularly in Volumes 3 and 4, occasional marginal dampstaining, 3M4.5 and 4B4.5 in Volume 2 possibly supplied from another copy, dark stains on several sheets in Volumes 3 and 4, worming in blank margins at end of Volume 4. Early ownership inscriptions of the Jesuit College of Sassari, Sardinia; stamps of the Pusey House Library, Oxford. Venice: Francesco de Franceschi, 1576

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Later edition of a compilation attributed to an English Franciscan theologian (d. 1245) who taught at the University of Paris. The third part was published first in 1475 and the full work in 1481-82. Sarton II, 582.