Incipit liber prim[us] Ioha[n]nis Gerson ca[n]cellarij parisie[n]sis. De imitatione [Christ]i [et] de conte[m]ptu omniu[m] vanitatu[m] mundi
Publisher: Erhard Ratdolt
Published: 1488
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church
Other titles: De imitatione Christi et de contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi; De contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi
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 incipit (leaf a1r).

Begins (leaf pi1v): Tabule capitulo[rum] i[n] libros seque[n]tes.

Colophon (leaf f3v): ... Impressu[m] Auguste arte [et] impensis Erhardi ratdolt viri solert[is]. Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxxviij.

Signatures: pi², a-e⁸ f⁶.

Eight-line white-on-black floriated woodcut initials.

Text in double columns, 40 lines per column.

"Tractatus de meditatione cordis a.M. iohanne de gerson": leaves f4r-f6r.

Hain-Copinger(+Add), 9094*.

Proctor, 1878.

Goff, I-16.

BM 15th cent., II, 382 (IA.6676).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ii00016000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 620.