Script: Written in small gothic bookhand, below top line.

One historiated initial with partial border, of good quality but rubbed, f. 5r: mauve on blue rectangular ground both with white highlights; a kneeling figure in monk's robe, presumably the author, holding a book and pointing to the beginning of the text, on gold ground. A bar border extending down inner margin and across lower margin with beads in pale green, blue, blue-green and gold, and stylized leaves, green and blue swirling around bar. Border ending in lower margin in stylized scroll inhabited by a human figure supporting a cupola [?]; a bird perched on bar beneath inner column. 12-line initial divided red and blue (f. 79r for questio 44) with red and blue penwork designs. Many small flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, red with blue penwork designs and vice versa. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Running headlines in red or blue. Instructions for decorator. Most rubrics wanting.

Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain. Resewn on three double thongs laced into wooden boards. Yellow edges. Plain wound endbands are sewn through a vellum spine lining which extends inside the boards between supports. Covered in brick-red goatskin; Catalan multiple-line concentric frames and Moorish overtones. Spine: multiple fillets at head and tail. An X with 3 eight-petalled flowers at the intersections and in the 4 compartments. Double fillets outlining the panels. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board. Damage from a chain attachment and a vellum label with title "Prima pars sancti thome," both on the upper board. The boards do not fit the bookblock.

In Latin.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 232.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Pars I. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.