Incipit liber prim[us] Ioha[n]nis Gerson ca[n]cellarij parisie[n]sis. De imitatione [christ]i & de conte[m]ptu omniu[m] vanitatu[m] mundi
Contributors: Thomas, a Kempis, 1379 or 1380-1471; Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429; Franziskanerkloster Straubing
Publisher: [Erhard Ratdolt]
Published: 1488
Place of publication: Augsburg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Meditations; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church; Devotional literature
Other titles: Incipit liber primus Johannis Gerson cancellarii parisiensis. De imitatione christi et de contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi; De imitatione christi et de contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi; Tabule capitulor[um] i[n] libros seque[n]tes; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction); Tractatus de meditatione cordis a M. iohanne de gerson.
Work titles: Imitatio Christi
Notes: Title from incipit at head of a1 recto.

Imprint derived from colophon (f3 verso): Explicit liber quartus & vltimus de sacrame[n]to altaris. Ioha[n]neis gerson ca[n]cellarij parisiensis de co[n]te[m]ptu mu[n]di deuotu[m] & vtile opusculu[m]. Impressu[m] Auguste  arte et impensis Erhardi Ratdolt viri solert[is]., Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxxviij.

Includes Jean Gerson: Tractatus de meditatione cordis (f4 recto-f6 recto).

Signatures: pi℗ø a-éı f́œ.

Chancery quarto; printed in double columns, a1 recto: 40 lines plus headline, 151 (163) x 106 mm; types: 104 (headlines), 76 (text); printed Lombards.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, 382

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, I16

Incunabula short title catalogue, ii00016000

cataloged 20190904 jm

condition reviewed 20191002 cl