Accession number
PML 26251
Object title
Ein ware nachuolgung Cristi.
Uniform title
Imitatio Christi. German
Published
Gedrucket unnd vollendet in der keiserlichen statt Augspurg : von Anthonio Sorg, am montag nach sant Elizabehten tag ... Tausent vierhundert und in dem sechszunddachczigosten [20 November 1486].
Description
[6], i-cxci, [1] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1929.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1v.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [25]/7r: Hie endet sich das lobliche bůche genannt Die ware nachuolgung Cristi. Gedrucket vnnd vollendet in der keiserlichen statt Augspurg von Anthonio Sorg am montag nach sant Elizabehten tag. Do man zalt nach der gepurt Cristi Tausent vierhundert vnd in dem sechszunddachczigosten Iare. Amen.
Printed in Sorg's types 3:140G and 4:109G.
On the attribution to Thomas à Kempis see A. Ampe, L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ et son auteur (Roma, 1973) and R.R. Post, The Modern Devotion (Leiden, 1968) pp.520-536 (CIBN).
Collation: [1⁶ 2-25⁸]: 198 leaves, leaf [25]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [25]/8 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf [25]/7r: Hie endet sich das lobliche bůche genannt Die ware nachuolgung Cristi. Gedrucket vnnd vollendet in der keiserlichen statt Augspurg von Anthonio Sorg am montag nach sant Elizabehten tag. Do man zalt nach der gepurt Cristi Tausent vierhundert vnd in dem sechszunddachczigosten Iare. Amen.
Printed in Sorg's types 3:140G and 4:109G.
On the attribution to Thomas à Kempis see A. Ampe, L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ et son auteur (Roma, 1973) and R.R. Post, The Modern Devotion (Leiden, 1968) pp.520-536 (CIBN).
Collation: [1⁶ 2-25⁸]: 198 leaves, leaf [25]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [25]/8 (blank).
Binding
20th-century quarter calf over 15th-century beech boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands. 1 15th-century clasp, renewed.
Variant title
Ein ware nachvolgung Cristi
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, woodcut initials and paragraph marks highlighted in red and red capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. German bibliographic inscription, 17th/18th century (rear endleaf 1 verso, preserved from previous binding).
Provenance
Maria-Mödingen (near Dillingen, Bavaria), Dominicans nuns, inscription: "Das bůch gehöht in d[em] klost[er] zů medingen brediger ordens," 15th century (leaf [1]/1r); Bornheim, inscription, either a name or for the town in North Rhine-Westphalia (bottom edge); Martinus Nijhoff, no. 546, "A Small Selection of Valuable Old and Modern Books,"(1929), no. 49, to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Nijhoff, April 1929.
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