Ioannes Gerson De immitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi in uulgari sermone
Publisher: Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis
Published: 1488
Place of publication: Venice
Language: ita
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church
Other titles: Ioannes Gerson De immitatione Christi et de contemptv mvndi in vvlgari sermone; De immitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi in uulgari sermone; De imitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi in vulgari sermone; De contemptu mundi in uulgari sermone
Work titles: Imitatio Christi Italian
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 (p. [155]): Fine della deuota operetta de Ioanne Gerson della imitatione de christo & del dispregio del mondo. Et duna epistola di Ioa[n]ne Neapolitano ad siluia uergene: la quale exhorta ala religione. Impressa a Venetia per el diligente homo Ioanne Rosso da uercelle nel anno del Signor .M.cccc.lxxxviii. a di .xxii. de Marzo. Regna[n]te lo inclyto principe Augustino barbarico.

First edition in Italian.

Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁶.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters in gatherings a-c.

Printed on sheets of "Chancery"-size paper.

"Epistola di Ioanni neapolitano ad Siluia uergine honestissima: nella quale exhorta quella ala religione": p. [148]-[154]

Hain-Copinger(+Add), 9126

Proctor, 5124

Goff, I-45

BM 15th cent., V, 416 (IA.23129)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ii00045000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2212, 2530.

Gift; James Byrne; 22 November 1931; C 803.1350.

Gift; James Byrne; 22 November 1921; C 803.1344.

From the Imitatio Christi collection formed by W.A. Copinger.

From the library of Eadmond Waterton, with his signature, and of Walter Arthur Copinger, with his bookplate.

This copy was formerly believed to be an ed. published Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 30 August 1497 (Goff I-54) and is so described in Walsh (no. 2530).

Imperfect: leaf k6 (colophon) wanting.

Initials added in red or blue.

Bound in 19th-century marbled boards, edges stained black.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Bound in 19th-century polished tan calf, gilt, red leather spine label.