Incipit liber p[ri]m[us] Ioa[n]nis Gerson ca[n]celarij parisiensis. De imitatio[n]e [Christ]i [et] de [con]te[m]ptu o[mn]iu[m] vanitatu[m] mu[n]di
Publisher: Impensis Leonardi Pachel de Alamania
Published: 1488
Place of publication: Impressum Mediolani
Language: lat
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church
Other titles: De imitatione Christi et de contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi
Work titles: Imitatio Christi
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 colophon (leaf k1v).

Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁴ (k4 blank).

The text incipit and woodcut initial on a1r are red-printed.

Text in double columns, 35 lines per column.

A few initial spaces, with guide-letters.

"De meditatione cordis Ioh[ann]is Gerson": leaves i5r-k1v.

Hain-Copinger(Add), 9096*

Proctor, 5978

Goff, I-18

BM 15th cent., VI, 777 (IA.26623)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ii00018000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3145.

Gift; James Byrne; 22 November 1921; C 803.39.

From the library of Walter Arthur Copinger, with his bookplate.

Imperfect: wanting sheet k2.3 (Tabula).

Initial spaces not filled in.

Bound in 19th-century red morocco, gilt.