Divi Thome Aquinatis in Libr[orum] de Anima Aristotelis Expositio. Magistri Dominici de Flandria Ordinis Predicator[um] in eundem Libru[m] Acutissime Questiones & Annotationes

Venice: Octaviani Scoti per Bonetus de Locatellis, 1503. Hardcover. Very Good. Small folio, printed in gothic type in two columns, woodcut initials & text diagrams; woodcut printer's device on final leaf. Bound in modern half parchment with printed paper boards. A copy with significant contemporary marginal notes in several sections, the annotations run tight up against the outer margin. Title page cut down by one inch at the foot; some scattered spotting & worming, but generally a nice copy of an early (and uncommon to the market) post-incunable edition, worthy of future study. A recent edition was published in 2024 by the Aquinas Institute. Beth Mortensen summarizes the significance of the text: "All of us living in this Cartesian age grow accustomed to thinking of our bodies as animated machines—machines that function better or worse, subject to innumerable material factors. De Anima [On the Soul] reminds us that the human person is one whole, and the soul is actively making the body what it is. This means that, among other things, the quality of the body’s functioning does not determine a human being’s 'quality of life,' and it is completely irrelevant to that person’s worth or dignity." see: aquinas institute - commentary on de anima.