Vita Christi
By: edita a sancto Bonaventura
Publisher: Johann Schönsperger
Published: 1497
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: lat
Subjects: Biography; Meditations; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Meditationes vitae Christi
Notes: The attribution to St. Bonaventure is dubious; sometimes also attributed to Johannes de Caulibus.

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 1498. Cf. Der Frühdruck im deutschen Südwesten, p. 42-43.

Signatures: a-i⁶.

Errors in foliation: xlii, xliii, xlix, and lv omitted; liii misnumbered li.

Title-page woodcut of a bishop preaching.

Printed in double columns, 41 lines per column.

Initial spaces, most with guide-letters.

Hain, 3552.

Hain-Copinger(+Add), 3551*.

Proctor, 2549=2550.

Goff, B-895.

GW, 4745.

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 3525=3526.

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

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ib00895000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 606.