Saint Thomas Aquinas. Catena Aurea Justissimo Titulo Nuncupata. Complete Title: Sancti Thomae Aquinatis. Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Doctoris Angelici Expositio Continua Super Quatuor Evangelistas, Latinis et Graecis Auctoribus Ac Praesertim ex Patrum Sententiis et Glossis Miro Artificio Quasi Uno Tenore Contextuque Conflata. Simul Ac Catena Aurea Justissimo Titulo Nuncupata. Nunc verd tandem ab innumeris & enormibus medis aliarum Editionum expurgata & locorum indicibus antea falsis vel imperfectis insignita & novis additamentis, marginibus, & ornamentis aueta ut singulisEvangelistis praefixaPraefatio plenius indicabit per R. P. F. Joannem Nicolai … Prima Pars in Matthaeum. Editio in Germania Prima, Cum Gratia & Privilegio Sac. Caesar Majestatis. Herbiboli [Wuerzburg], Joannis Ziegeri, 1706. 34 x 22 cm. Half title, Title page in red and black, 16 [Praefatio, Divi Thomae Aquinatis], 901 pages. Small vignettes. See comments below. A full leather [vellum?] binding over boards with clasps. Covers blind tooled. Dark edges. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Some book worm holes. Sound tight binding. Clasps present and closing. Dust dulled. One stamp (‘Holy Cross Priory Library Sligo’) on title page. Old inscription on top of title pages. No further stamps or inscriptions. Mild age darkening / foxing. Internally very clean. Overall a very nice copy in an attractive binding. See images.

Prima Pars in Matthaeum – pages 1 to 324
Secunda Pars in Marcum – pages 325 to 426
Tertia Pars in Lucam – pages 429 to 676
Quarta Pars in Joannem – pages 679 to 892
Index pages 693 to 901

Misnumbered pages: 259 as 261 / 494 as 496 / 496 as 506 / 497 as 507 / 836 as 826.

Thomas Aquinas, c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, the foremost Scholastic thinker, as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition. A Doctor of the Church, he was from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.
Thomas was a proponent of natural theology and the father of a school of thought (encompassing both theology and philosophy) known as Thomism. He argued that God is the source of the light of natural reason and the light of faith. He embraced several ideas put forward by Aristotle and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity. He has been described as “the most influential thinker of the medieval period” and “the greatest of the medieval philosopher-theologians”.
Thomas’s best-known works are the unfinished Summa Theologica, or Summa Theologiae (1265-1274), the Disputed Questions on Truth (1256-1259) and the Summa contra Gentiles (1259-1265). His commentaries on Christian Scripture and on Aristotle also form an important part of his body of work. He is also notable for his Eucharistic hymns, which form a part of the Church’s liturgy.
As a Doctor of the Church, Thomas is considered one of the Catholic Church’s greatest theologians and philosophers. He is known in Catholic theology as the Doctor Angelicus (″Angelic Doctor”, with the title “doctor” meaning “teacher”), and the Doctor Communis (″Universal Doctor”). In 1999 Pope John Paul II added a new title to these traditional ones: Doctor Humanitatis (″Doctor of Humanity/Humaneness”).
A catena (from Latin catena, a chain) is a form of biblical commentary, verse by verse, made up entirely of excerpts from earlier Biblical commentators, each introduced with the name of the author, and with such minor adjustments of words to allow the whole to form a continuous commentary.
The texts are mainly compiled from popular authors, but they often contain fragments of certain patristic writings now otherwise lost. From the thirteenth century to the nineteenth, various catenas were published. Few modern editions exist, and there can be textual challenges in translating and editing them. That said, the Catena Aurea requested by Pope Urban IV and written by Saint Thomas Aquinas in 1263ff has been translated several times. Arguably one of the best editions that is available and in English is the edition translated by Cardinal John Henry Newman and published in 1841.

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• Language: Latin
• Inventory Number: 104561AB

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