Catena aurea : commentary on the four Gospels collected out of the works of the Fathers / by Thomas Aquinas ; with a new introduction by Aidan Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Contributor:

Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Catena aurea. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible. Gospels--Commentaries.

Bible.

Bible. Gospels.

Physical Description:

4 volumes ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Southampton [England] : Saint Austin Press, 1997.

Summary:

This great verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospels drawn from the writings of the Church Fathers was commissioned by Pope Urban IV and translated under the direction of the Ven. John Henry Newman in 1841.

This edition includes a specially commissioned introduction by Fr. Aidan Nichols, O.P. It also contains, for the first time in English, St. Thomas's own substantial dedicatory letter to Pope Urban IV, in which he describes how the commentary was composed.

Contents:

v. 1. St. Matthew

v. 2. St. Mark

v. 3. St. Luke

v. 4. St. John.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1901157407

1901157415

1901157423

1901157431

190115744X

OCLC:

43310888