Gerhardus de Monte, Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s De ente et essentia, etc., in Latin [Germany, c.1450-1500]

295x200, paper, i+102+i, main texts paginated 1-204, quires missing after ff.94 and 140, 2 columns to p.140, one column in larger script from p.141, spaces left for coloured initials, the outer corners water-stained, not affecting legibility, lots 43-49 bound uniformly, probably in 1870, each quire with a pencil binder’s number on the first recto

PROVENANCE

Ampleforth Abbey, with their purple ink stamp, and shelfmark label ‘M/15/S.S.’ on pastedown and spine; described in more detail with 15 texts itemized, with references, by Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, II, 1977, pp.25-26.

TEXT

Gerard de Monte’s commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s ‘On Being and Essence’: ‘[I]nsignis peripotetice veritatis interpres doctor sanctus nedum adultos provehere … set lucis eternaliter amen’ (f.1r); 14 short philosophical works by, or often attributed to, Aquinas (p.71); Aristotle, 'Ethics', misbound and imperfect at beginning and end (p.141).