THOMAS OF AQUIN (Saint). Catena aurea super quattuor evangelistas. Venice, Hermann Liechtenstein & Johannes Hamman, 1482. In-folio of [391] ff, stamped fawn calf on wooden boards, cold decoration on the boards, ornamented spine, handwritten title in gutter (Modern pastiche binding). This precious Venetian incunabulum is the sixth edition of the Catena aurea (Golden Chain), a compilation of patristic commentaries on the four Gospels, the fruit of work carried out by Thomas Aquinas between Paris, Rome and Orvieto between 1262 and 1272. The first edition was published in Rome in 1470 by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz. Hermann Liechtenstein, originally from Cologne, began his printing career in Vicenza in 1475 before moving to Treviso and then Venice. He died in 1494. An unstamped copy, with the large initials in blank. A few rare handwritten annotations. Without the blank leaf a1; restoration without lack of text on the first leaf; some marginal wetness. ISTC it00230000 - Goff T230 - HC(Add) 1334* - Pell 937 - CIBN T-129 - BMC V 356 - GW M46101.