LA SUMMA THEOLOGICA CON IL COMMENTO DEL CARDINAL CAETANO TOMMASO D’AQUINO. Angelici doctoris sancti Thomae Aquinatis Summa Theologica in quinque tomos distributa, cum commentariis Thomae de Vio cardinalis Cajetani, et elucidationibus literalibus p. Seraphini Capponi a Porrecta ordinis praedicatorum..., quaestiones quodlibetales duodecim... de brevissimus catechismus catholicus omnia, quae christianum ad aeternam animi salutem consequendam credere, & facere oportet, complectens.Padova, Seminario, 1698

Folio, 5 Tomes; Contemporary full stiff vellum binding, manuscript title on backs; I: engraved Frontispiece, 58 leaves nn. Included title page and index, 774, 6 nn, 2 b.; II: leaves 60 nn. included title page and index, 640, 89; III: leaves 60 included title page and index, 1032; IV: leaves 60 included title page and index, 712; V: title page, leaves. 508, 340. Title page in red and black ink with woodcut ornament, decorated Initials and woodcut finals; text in two columns framed in the comment of Cardinal Cajetani; allegorical Frontespice engraved on copper.

Rare illustrated edition. Important edition of the Summa Theologica, printed by the Seminar of Padua, with the commentary of Cardinal Thomas de Vio, said Caetano, 1469-1534, an important theologian who was pontifical diplomat of the Dominican order and with annotations of Serafino Capponi of Porretta; the last volume contains, in addition to the Supplementum of the third part, two works of Augustine Huens, 1521-1577, theologian and professor in classical literature at the University of Leuven, and in the end, from page 27, ten indexes that allow a consultation of the whole Summa. The work is composed: Vol. I, Pars Prima Cui annexus est Tractatus; Vol. II, Prima Secundae Partis; Vol. III, Seconda Secundae Partis; Vol. IV, Tertia Pars; Vol. V, Supplementum Tertiae Partis, with two works of Augustinus Hunnaeus, il Brevissimus Cathechismus Catholicus e il De Sacramentis; in the end Indices Decem.Damages at bindings, good specimen.