Jncipit liber p[ri]m[us] Joa[n]nis gerson ca[n]cellarij parisiensis. De imitatio[n]e [christ]i [et] de [con]te[m]ptu o[mn]iu[m] vanitatu[m] mu[n]di..
Thomas,à Kempis,1380-1471.
Pachel, Leonhard,active 1477-1511,printer.
Gerson, Jean,1363-1429.De meditatione cordis.
Winstanley, Charles,1851-1934,binder.StEdNL
Ferzoli, Lughas,former owner.StEdNL
Ormerod, Henry Mere,1816-1898,former owner.StEdNL
Farnburg Biblioth.,former owner.StEdNL
Impressum Mediolani : Impensis Leonardi pachel de alamania.,
M.cccc.lxxxviij. mensis Julij. [July 1488]
Title from caption printed in red at incipit on leaf a1 recto.
Imprint from colophon on leaf k1 verso, which reads in full: Joha[n]nis Gerson cancellarij parisiensis : de co[n]temptu mu[n]di libri quatuor vno cum tractatu de meditatione cordis felici numine finiunt. Jmpressum Mediolani impensis Leonardi pachel de alamania. / M.cccc.lxxxviij. mensis Julij.
The Imitatio Christi is attributed here to Johannes Gerson; traditionally attributed to Thomas à Kempis.
On the attribution to Thomas à Kempis see A. Ampe, L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ et son auteur, Rome: 1973, and R.R. Post, The Modern Devotion, Leiden: 1968, pp. 520-36: see BN cat. des incun., T-122, and ISTC ii00016000.
Woodcut initials at beginning of books on leaves a1 recto [printed in red], b7 recto and c7 verso.
Text in two columns, with printed running titles, with mistakes and printed up-side-down on leaves i6 recto and i8 recto.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letter, on leaves g8 verso and i5 recto.
Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁴.
Last leaf k4 blank.
Marginal annotation on recto of leaf f2. Latin prayer in manuscript at foot of verso of leaf k3.
[Pseudo-] Johannes Gerson [i.e. Thomas à Kempis]. Imitatio Christi, Books 1-4, a1r-i5r; Johannes Gerson. De meditatione cordis, i5r-k1v; colophon, k1v; "Tabule capituloru[m] in libros sequentes", k2r-k3v.
BM 15th cent.,
BN cat. des incun.,
Bod-inc
BSB-Ink
GW
Goff
Hain-Copinger (Add)
ISTC
Oates
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Ink ownership inscription at foot of recto of leaf a1: Iste te Lughas Ferzolis. Red ink inscription at head of recto of leaf a1: P.B.D.S.F. Ink inscription at end of text: p[res]b[yte]ri Bapt[ist]e d[e] sarrug ferni[?]. Ink stamp on recto of leaf a1: Farnburg Biblioth. Armorial die-sinker bookplate of Henry Mere Ormerod on front pastedown. Bought by the Library from the Lauriston Castle Fund 20 July 1943.
19th-century hard-grained dark brown morocco with blind rolled border and blind stamped floral design in corners on front and back boards, gilt stamped author, title and dated on spine, blind rolled turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Bound by C. Winstanley, Manchester.
Jesus Christ
Christian life
Spiritual life
Meditations
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Italy Milan.