Tractatus de imitatione Christi
Subtitle: cu[m] Tractatulo de meditatione cordis
Publisher: Johannes Trechsel
Published: 1489
Place of publication: Lyon
Language: lat
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church
Other titles: De imitatione Christi
Work titles: Imitatio Christi 1489
Notes: Author now known to be Thomas à Kempis; see J.E. Walsh, "Attributions in a manuscript of Imitatio Christi" in The Marks in the fields: essays on the uses of manuscripts (Houghton Library exhibition catalogue, 1992, p. 62-65).

Colophon (leaf i12r): Tractatulus venerabilis m[a]g[ist]ri Ioha[n]nis Gerson de meditat[i]o[n]e cordis Lugduni imp[re]ssus p[er] Ioh[ann]e[m] trechsel art[is] impressorie magistru[m] Anno n[ost]re salut[is]. Mcccclxxxix. die v[er]o .xj. mensis octobris finit feliciter.

Signatures: a-h⁸ i¹².

Many errors in foliation.

Initial spaces.

Woodcut printer's device beneath colophon.

"Incipit tractatus de meditatione cordis magistri Iohannis gerson": leaves i7v-i12r.

Hain-Copinger(+Add), 9101

Proctor, 8596

Goff, I-21

BM 15th cent., VIII, 291 (IA.41887)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ii00021000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3783.

Gift; James Byrne; 22 November 1921; C 803.40.

From the library of Eadmond Waterton, with his autograph.

From the W.A. Copinger Imitatio Christi Collection, with two different Copinger bookplates at front and back of the 19th-century binding.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Bound in Japanese paper over boards; edges gilt; in tan cloth case, 23 cm.  The covers and spine of the previous binding (19th-century blind-stamped calf) have been placed in the case.