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Eximij veritatis schole professoris fratris Iohannis Capreoli tholosani ordinis predicatoru[m] Liber prim[us] defensionu[m] theologie diui doctoris Thome de Aquino in primo sententiaru[m] feliciter incipit

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Description: A defense of the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, written mainly in response to Petrus Lombardus' Sententiarum libri IV.
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Publication date: Anno salutifere incarnationis M.cccc.lxxxiij. [1483-1484]
Call number: 102589
Creator: Capreolus, Jean (approximately 1380-1444)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Volume 1: From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, with his shelfmark "510" on front pastedown. Inherited by Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick, Phillips' grandson, in 1872. Purchased by A.S.W. Rosenbach from Fenwick in 1923 and sold to Henry Huntington.; Volume 2: Pen sketches of a hunting scene in top margin of leaf a2r. Occasional marginal ms. annotations and manicules. Presented by the Borough of Bermondsey, London to the Huntington Library in July 1951.; Volume 3: Inscription on leaf pi1r: Ioannis Bo...[?] ....[?] possessor huius libri. Occasional marginal ms. annotations and manicules in part 3; ms. annotations in red and black ink in part 4. From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps with his shelfmark "331" on front pastedown. Inherited by Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick, Phillipps' grandson, in 1872. Purchased by A.S.W. Rosenbach from Fenwick in 1923 and sold to Henry Huntington.
Dimensions: 32 cm (Folio)
Associated people: Thomas, (-1498,); Scotto, Ottaviano, (1792-1872,); Phillipps, Thomas, (1856-1938,); Fenwick, Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps,
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