Summa contra gentiles, sive De veritate Catholicae.
Contributors: Joannes Franciscus Beatus; Pannartz, Arnold, d. ca. 1478
Publisher: Arnoldus Pannartz
Published: 1475
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800; Apologetics -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Theology -- Early works to 1800
Work titles: Summa contra gentiles.
Notes: Title from Goff;  imprint from colophon.

Dedication by Ioannes Franciscus Venetus.

The first dated edition of the work.

Leaf [7r]: Incipit liber de ueritate catholic[a]e fidei co[n]tra errores ge[n]tiliu[m].  Editus a fratre Thoma de Aquino: ordi[n]is p[rae]dicato[rum].

Colophon (leaf [299r]): Impressit clarus ac diligentiss[imus] artifex Arnoldus Pannartz[us] natione Germanus in domo viri nobilis Petri de Max[imo] civis Romani.  Anno incarnati verbi .M.CCCLXXV. die vero .XX. Septen[bris] seden[s] Sixto .IIII. Pont[ifico] Max[imo] anno. eius .V.

Without signatures, as issued.

Goff, T-191.

Fisher copy: Leaf [300] (blank) wanting.  Italian binding of diced Russia leather, ca. 1780.  Covers and back elaborately gilded with stylized floral rolls; at the corners of the upper and lower covers are armorial devices (a crowned lion rampant), probably for a member of the Rossi family.  With sprinkled edges.