Accession number
PML 27815
Object title
Alphabetum divini amoris [German:] Das a b c der götlichen liebe (Tr: Hans Mickell).
Published
Memmingen : Albrecht Kunne, 1493.
Description
(4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Checklist author name form: [Gerson].
The Alphabetum, of unknown authorship, is variously ascribed in editions to Johannes Gerson, Thomas à Kempis, Johannes Nider or Nikolaus Kempf. See D. Martin, The Writings of Nikolaus Kempf of Strassburg, in Die Kartäuser in Österreich, Bd 1, Salzburg, 1980, 127-54, esp. p.154 (BSB-Ink, CIBN).
The Alphabetum, of unknown authorship, is variously ascribed in editions to Johannes Gerson, Thomas à Kempis, Johannes Nider or Nikolaus Kempf. See D. Martin, The Writings of Nikolaus Kempf of Strassburg, in Die Kartäuser in Österreich, Bd 1, Salzburg, 1980, 127-54, esp. p.154 (BSB-Ink, CIBN).
Binding
Modern quarter black goatskin, with paper sides, by Duprez-Lahey.
Variant title
A b c der götlichen liebe
Provenance
Chorinsky von Ledske, Ignatz Dominik (b. 1729), abraded bookplate in previous binding; previously part of a Sammelband including PML 27814-18 (ChL 486, 536, 538, 495, and 151), disbound after 1930; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from J. Wertheim, Nov. 1930.
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