Incipit liber p[ri]m[us] Ioa[n]nis gerson ca[n]cellarij parisiensis. De imitatio[n]e [Christ]i [et] de [con]te[m]ptu o[mn]iu[m] vanitatu[m] mu[n]di
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Type of record: Book
Title: Incipit liber p[ri]m[us] Ioa[n]nis gerson ca[n]cellarij parisiensis. De imitatio[n]e [Christ]i [et] de [con]te[m]ptu o[mn]iu[m] vanitatu[m] mu[n]di
Other titles: Imitatio Christi; Incipit liber primus Ioannis Gerson cancellarij parisiensis de Imitatione Christi & de contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi
Classmark: BC Incunabula KEM
Additional creator(s): Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471) (Other); Gerson, Jean (1363-1429) (Other); Madiis, Franciscus de (1485-1490?) (Publisher); Leoviler, Johann (1485-1488) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: Impe[n]sis Francisci de madijs; [Johannes Leoviler, de Hallis] for Franciscus de Madiis
Publication city: Imp[re]ssu[m] Venetijs [Venice]
Date(s): M.cccc.lxxxvi. [1486]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 65 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/57420
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007758029705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [*]² a-g⁸ h¹⁰.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on h9r reads: Ioh[ann]is Gerson cancellarij parisiensis: de co[n]te[m]ptu mu[n]di libri quatuor vno cum tractatu de meditatione cordis felici numi[n]e finiu[n]t. Imp[re]ssu[m] Venetijs impe[n]sis Francisci de madijs. M.cccc.lxxxvi.
Published when the authorship was still attributed to John Gerson, Chancellor of Paris, whose name appears in the opening paragraph of the text. Also attributed to Thomas à Kempis.
Second of six books printed by Leoviler.
Title from 1ar.
Printed in two columns with 35 lines and headline per page.
Leaf numbers printed at the top right of rectos.
Leaves 63 and 65 misnumbered 73 and 75 respectively.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Leaf h10 is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ii00011000.
Indexed in: Goff I11; Hain 9090.
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations and manicules in faded black ink manuscript.
The first initial on a1r has been decorated in red and contains, in faded black ink, a tiny illustration of a person praying before a two-barred cross.
Bindings
Binding of full parchment over pasteboard, probably ninetheenth-century. Stamped in black on the smooth spine are the words: Gerson - De imitatio Cristi Venetus 1486. The leaves have been severely cropped and the leaf edges are sprinkled blue. Size: 143 x 105mm. Leaf size: 137 x 100mm.
Provenance
Small blue and white armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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