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Aquinas, Thomas (c. 1225-1274) In Librum Salomonis qui Cantica Canticor[um] Inscribitur Dilucidissima Expositio.
Venice: Imposuit Simon de Luere; studio Alexandri Calcedonii, 1505.
Small folio pamphlet; text in gothic letter in two columns throughout, very large woodcut initial at start of text, woodcut of archangel Gabriel; lacking final leaf after colophon (likely blank); bound in modern half parchment with printed music on boards; 11 3/4 x 8 in.
Thomas Aquinas is said, by legend, to have delivered a verbal interpretation of the Song of Solomon on his deathbed at the request of young acolytes. The written text that comes down to us is not that text, but a pseudo-Aquinas composition likely written by Aegidius Romanus, Saint Bruno of Segni or perhaps Haymo, Bishop of Halberstaedt.
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