April 2019 – The Burke Library Blog

“Summa contra gentiles” and its Readers

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Caro Bratnober

A folio from UTS MS 005, a manuscript of Thomas Aquinas's "Summa contra gentiles." From the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University in the City of New York.

UTS Manuscripts Student Series Post 2 of 4, by Valerie Wilson (MA candidate, Medieval and Renaissance Studies)* The script of the Burke Library’s UTS MS 005, a manuscript of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa contra gentiles within the Burke’s Van Ess Collection, is one of its most baffling features. The manuscript comes from the Benedictine monastery of […]

St. Eustace and Unexpected Emptiness in a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Eleanor Stern (Barnard College 2019)

UTS Manuscripts Student Series Post 1 of 4, by Eleanor Stern (Barnard College 2019)* Inside of UTS MS 051, a fifteenth-century French book of hours believed to have belonged to King Henry III, now housed at the Burke Library, I expected to find certain kinds of illuminations. Most books of hours begin with a […]