De Imitatione cristi et contemptu mundi magistri Ioha[n]nis Gerson ca[n]cellarii p[ar]isie[n]s[is]
Series: French books before 1601 -- roll 268, item 1
Publisher: Georg Mittelhus
Published: 1496
Place of publication: Paris
Language: lat
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church
Work titles: Imitatio Christi 1497
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).

The Houghton Library copy is imperfect; title from BM 15th cent.

Colophon (leaf m8r): Completu[m] est opusculum, exaratu[m]q[ue] Parisij per Georgiu[m] Mittelhus. Anno d[omi]ni millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo nonagesimo sexto. die vero prima martij.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Woodcut of the Crucifixion on title page, woodcut of the Adoration of the Magi on verso; printer's device on leaf m8v.

"Sequitur tractatus de meditatione cordis ab eodem. M. Iohanne de gersono": leaves l7r-m5v. In some copies, "Iohanue" appears in place of "Iohanne".

Hain-Copinger, 9108

Proctor, 8117

Goff, I-32

BM 15th cent., VIII, 127 (IA.40084)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ii00032000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3662.

Gift; James Byrne; 22 November 1921; C 803.51.

From the library of W.A. Copinger, with his bookplate.

Ms. ownership notations trimmed away on a2 and m8.

Imperfect: title page wanting.

In this copy, the last line on leaf l7r has the reading "Iohanue" instead of "Iohanne".

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Bound in 19th-century red morocco.