Die ware nach Folgung cristi
Publisher: Johann Zainer
Published: 1487
Place of publication: Ulm
Language: ger
Translated from: lat
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church
Other titles: Ware Nachfolgung Cristi; Wahre Nachfolgung Christi
Work titles: Imitatio Christi. German
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).

Imprint from ISTC.

Signatures: pi⁸, a-z⁸ A-K⁸ (pi7, K6, K7, K8 blank).

Many errors in foliation.

Full-page woodcut on pi8v of Christ, the Virgin Mary, St. John, and an angel.

Five-line woodcut floriated initials at the beginning of each book; initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper.

In the Houghton Library copy, there are 2 lines of blind bearer type (from pi6v) on pi1v, and another 2 lines on blank pi7r.

Hain-Copinger, 9115*.

Copinger, 3239.

Proctor, 2553.

Goff, I-39.

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 5346.

BM 15th cent., II, 531 (IA.9281).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ii00039000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 912.