Uita Christi
By: edita a Sancto Bonauentura.
Contributors: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274 dubious author.; Johannes de Caulibus, dubious author.; Schönsperger, Johann, d. 1520? printer.; Connolly, Arthur T. d. 1933 donor.
Publisher: Johann Schönsperger
Published: 1497
Place of publication: [Augsburg
Language: lat
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Meditations.; Samuel -- (Biblical judge) -- Sermons.; Incunabula -- Specimens.
Genres: Meditations.; Specimens.
Other titles: Vita Christi; Ad Samuelem in ramatha ...
Work titles: Meditationes vitae Christi.
Notes: Formerly attributed to Saint Bonaventure. Composed by a Friar Minor for a Poor Clare. (Cf. Catholic Encyclopedia (New York, 1913), v. 2, p. 654.)

Also attributed to Joannes de Caulibus, O.F.M. (Jean des Choux), a Tuscan friar from San Gimignano. (Cf. Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique, t. 1, col. 1850-1851.)

It was formerly assumed that this edition was printed in Ulm by Johann Zainer around 1487, but after examining the type, Dr. Peter Amelung has determined that it was printed in Augsburg by Johann Schönsperger in 1497 or 98. (Cf. Der Frühdruck im deutschen Südwesten, p. 42-43.)

Signatures: a-i⁶.

Printed in double columns, 41 lines to a column.

Fifty-four leaves; 3-53 numbered iii-lvii, with errors: leaves xlii, xliii, xlix and lv omitted from foliation; leaf l numbered li, and leaf li repeated from foliation.

Initials in red; capitals with red inserts; red underlines.

Verso of last leaf blank.

"Tabula:" leaf 57b (i.e. [53b]) and leaf [58a] (i.e. [54a]).

Title-page illustrated with woodcut, presumably representing St. Bonaventure lecturing to 6 friars.

Hain 3551

GW 4745

BM 15th cent., II, 530 (IA.9273)

Goff B-895

BM v. 23, col. 222 (IA.9273)

Proctor 2549

Burns Library copy: gift of Monsignor Arthur T. Connolly; cf. Dunigan's A history of Boston College. Milwaukee, 1947. p. 268-269.

Burns Library copy: in manuscript on leaf [58b] (i.e. [54b]): Asperges me ... dealbabor.

Burns Library copy: with this is bound facing t.-p. an unidentified vellum fragment of a manuscript ([2] pages), part of a sermon on the Prophet Samuel, "ad Samuele[m] in ramatha ..."

Burns Library copy: title-page mutilated on edges; wormholes.

Burns Library copy: manuscript annotations throughout; fists.