BOOK, Thomas Aquinas’ Commentary on Job, 1588.

Thomas ab Aquino / Thomas Aquinas:

D. Thomae Aquinatis, Doctoris Angelici [...] in S. Prophetae Iob librum longe difficillimum, historia dilucidaque explicatio.

Paris, H. de Marnef & viduam Gulielmi Cavellat, 1588. 8vo. 15 x 10,5 cm. [4] + 200 leaves.

Contemporary limp vellum, lightly scuffed, handwritten title to spine: “D. Thomas in Iob.” Two wormholes to front endleaves and title (affecting one letter of impressum), leaf 132 a little wormed, affecting margin and a few letters on each side, some foxing and very light staining.

Thomas Aquinas’ Commentary on the Book of Job.

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) [Sankt Thomas av Aquino] was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. The English philosopher Anthony Kenny considers Thomas to be "one of the dozen greatest philosophers of the western world".

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