Incipit liber primus Ioannis Gerson cangellarij parisiensis. De imitatione Christi [et] de co[n]te[m]ptu o[mn]iu[m] vanitatum mundi
Publisher: Bernardinus Benalius
Published: 1486
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life; Catholic Church
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 text incipit (p. [5]).

Begins (p. [2]): Tabule capitulorum in libros sequentes.

First colophon (p. [94]): ... .1486 ̊. Venetijs sub inclyto duce Marco Barbarico.

Second colophon (p. [99]): Venetijs per Bernardinu[m] benaliu[m].

Signatures: pi², a-f⁸.

Text in double columns, 39 lines per column.

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper.

"Sequit[ur] tractatus de meditatio[n]e cordis a. M. iohanne de Gersono": p. [94]-[99]

Hain, 9089*.

Goff, I-10.

BM 15th cent., V, 371 (IA.22314).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ii00010000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2086.