Incipit liber primus Iohannis gerson cancellarii parisiensis
Subtitle: De imitatione Christi & de co[n]te[m]ptu o[mn]i[u]m vanitatum mundi
Contributors: Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Per Philippum pygouchet
Published: 1492
Place of publication: Completum est opusculum exaratu[m]q[ue] Parisii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Meditations; Devotional literature; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Liber primus Iohannis Gerson cancellarii Parisiensis; De imitatione Christi & de contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi
Work titles: Imitatio Christi
Notes: Title from incipit on leaf a2. Ampersand in transcription represents a Tironian sign.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: a-m⁸.

Woodcut device of Philippe Pigouchet on leaf a1r; woodcut of the Crucifixion on a1v.

Capital spaces with guide letters.

"Sequitur tractatus de mediatio[n]e [sic] cordis ab eodem M iohanne de gersono": leaves l7 recto-m5 verso.

LC copy has inscription: A. Levain.  Final leaf is mounted; area below colophon removed.  Minor ms. annotation.  A few capital strokes in red on m3 verso-m4 recto.

Goff I-25

Hain-Copinger 9104

GW M46796

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ii00025000