Gerson De imitatione Christi
Subtitle: et De meditatione cordis
Publisher: Philippe Pigouchet, for Enguilbert, Geoffroy, and Jean de Marnef
Published: 1491
Place of publication: Paris
Language: lat
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church
Other titles: De imitatione Christi
Work titles: Imitatio Christi 1491
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).

Colophon (leaf m8r): Completum est opusculum, exaratu[m]que Parisii per Philippum pygouchet. In vico cithare. In locagiis collegii vulgariter nu[n]cupati de dainuille Anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonogesimo primo. die vero vltima mensis Martii.

Woodcut device of E., J., and G. de Marnef on title page.

Signatures: a-m⁸.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "Chancery"-size paper.

In some copies, line 1 of the colophon on leaf l7r ends "de cőtẽ="; in others, it reads "de cőtem"; cf. BM 15th cent.

In some copies, line 1 of the colophon on leaf m8r incorrectly reads "exoratűq[ue]" instead of "exaratűq[ue]".

"Sequitur tractatus de meditatione cordis ab eodem M. iohanne de gersono": leaves l7r-m5v.

Hain-Copinger, 9102

Proctor, 8183A

Goff, I-23

BM 15th cent., VIII, 113 (IA.40300)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ii00023000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3647-3648.

Gift; John B. Stetson, Jr.; 3 December 1928; Inc 8183.5 (1).

Purchase; 19 March 1929; C 803.43.5; George Schünemann Jackson fd.

From the library of Fernando Palha, with his bookplate.

From the library of Paul Schmidt, with his bookplate.

Imperfect: leaf d1 wanting.

In this copy, line 1 of the colophon on leaf l7r ends "de cőtẽ=", and line 1 of the colophon on leaf m8r has the incorrect reading "exoratűq[ue]".

Bound with: 1) Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes de interiori homine (Paris: Georg Mittelhus, 1493); 2) Johannes de Tambaco, Consolatio theologiae (Paris: Mittelhus, 1493); and 3) Gerardus de Zutphania, De reformatione virium animae (Paris: Mittelhus, 1493).

Bound in contemporary doeskin with fragments of doeskin ties; vellum leaves of 15th-century Latin MS pasted down inside covers.

In this copy, line 1 of the colophon on leaf l7r ends "de cőtẽ=", and line 1 of the colophon on leaf m8r has the correct reading "exaratűq[ue]".

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Bound in 19th-century olive cloth; edges untrimmed.