Tractatus de imitat[i]one christi
Subtitle: cu[m] tractatulo de meditatione cordis
Contributors: Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429; Flach, Martin, -1500, printer; Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco, 1470-1533, former owner; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: Imp[re]ssus p[er] Martinu[m] flach
Published: 1487
Place of publication: Arge[n]tine [i.e., Strasbourg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church
Work titles: Imitatio Christi. 1487
Notes: Author now known to be Thomas aea 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 and date from colophon (leaf l9r): ... Arge[n]tine imp[re]ssus p[er] Martinu[m] flach Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxxvij. finit feliciter

Signatures: a⁴ b-k⁸ l¹⁰ (l10 blank)

Error in foliation: leaf XVI misnumbered XVIII

Missing leaves 2-4 (a2, a3, a4)

Initial spaces, with guide-letters; illuminated

"Tractatus de meditatione cordis magistri Johannes Gerson": leaves l5r-l9r

Vellum binding.

Inside front cover: "Johannes Picus Mirandula, idiota vir sanctus".

Hain-Copinger (+Add), 9092*

Proctor 673

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, I-14

BM 15th cent., I: 147 (IA.2109)

Incunabula short title catalogue, ii00014000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 46800 (from http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/)

Walsh, J.E.  15th cent. printed books, 270