Incipit liber p[ri]m[us] Ioa[n]nis gerson ca[n]cellarij parisiensis
Subtitle: De imitatio[n]e [Christ]i & de [con]te[m]ptu o[mn]ium vanitatu[m] mu[n]di
Contributors: Leoviler, Johann, active 1485-1488, printer; Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Impe[n]sis Francisci de madijs
Published: 1486
Place of publication: Imp[re]ssu[m] Uenetijs
Language: lat
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Meditations; Devotional literature; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Tabule capituloru[m] in libros sequentes; Incipit liber pm Ioanis gerson cacellarij parisiensis; Liber primus Ioannis Gerson cancellarij Parisiensis; De imitatione Christi & de contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi
Work titles: Imitatio Christi
Notes: Title from beginning of text on leaf a1.  Ampersand in title transcription represents a Tironian sign.

Imprint from colophon.

Printed by Johannes Leoviler, de Hallis. Cf. Goff.

Printed when the authorship was still attributed to John Gerson, Chancellor of Paris, whose name appears in the opening paragraph of the text.

Foliation errors: leaves 63 and 65 misnumbered as 73 and 75, respectively.

Signatures: pi² a-g⁸ h¹⁰(h10 blank).

"Incipit tractat[us] de meditatio[n]e cordis Ioh[ann]is Gerson": leaves 61 verso-[65] recto.

Printed in 2 columns; capital spaces.

LC copy has inscription: Lud. Pezet, theo. doct. Ecclae [?] cano. [?] praecentor 1684.  Ms. passages in a contemporary hand on h9 verso and h10 recto.

Goff I-11

Hain-Copinger (+Addenda) 9090*

GW M46812

BM 15th cent., V, p. 406 (IA. 22785)

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