Ioh[ann]is Gerson cancellarij parisiensis
Subtitle: de co[n]te[m]ptu mu[n]di libri quatuor ; vno cum tractatu de meditatione cordis
Publisher: Johannes Leoviler, de Hallis; Impe[n]sis Francisci de madijs
Published: 1486
Place of publication: Imp[re]ssu[m] Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church
Other titles: De contemptu mundi libri quatuor
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).

Title from colophon (leaf [65]r).

Place of publication, pubisher statement, and date from colophon; printer from Goff.

Begins (leaf [1]r (1st count): Tabule capituloru[m] in libros sequentes.

Text begins (leaf 1r): Incipit liber p[ri]m[us] Ioa[n]nis gerson ca[n]cellarij parisiensis. De imitatio[n]e [christ]i [et] de [con]te[m]ptu o[mn]iu[m] vanitatu[m] mu[n]di.

Signatures: pi² a-g⁸ h¹⁰ (h10 blank).

Errors in foliation: 63 and 65 misnumbered 73 and 75 respectively.

Text in double columns, 35 lines per column.

"Incipit tractat[us] de meditatio[n]e cordis Ioh[ann]is Gerson": leaves 61v-[65]r.

Initial spaces.

Hain-Copinger(+Add), 9090*.

Proctor, 5665.

Goff, I-11.

BM 15th cent., V, 406 (IA.22785).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ii00011000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2192.