Accession number
PML 108.2
Object title
De vita et beneficijs saluator[is] Ihesu Cristi deuotissime meditationes cu[m] gratiaru[m] actione.
Published
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1488]
Description
[128] leaves ; 12.5 cm (16mo)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Often ascribed to Thomas à Kempis but also to Henricus Arnoldi (cf. Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie, 1896, p.171).
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's types 2:115G and 4:67G.
Library's copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Signatures: A-Q⁸: 128 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery sixteenmo.
Sometimes found with Bertholdus: Horologium devotionis (H 2995, pt I) and Gerardus de Zutphania: De spiritualibus ascensionibus (H 8931, pt II).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 11.8 x 8.1 cm.
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's types 2:115G and 4:67G.
Library's copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Signatures: A-Q⁸: 128 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery sixteenmo.
Sometimes found with Bertholdus: Horologium devotionis (H 2995, pt I) and Gerardus de Zutphania: De spiritualibus ascensionibus (H 8931, pt II).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 11.8 x 8.1 cm.
Binding
19th-century English full red morocco over paper boards (12.5 x 9 cm), sewn on 5 supports bound by C. Smith. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Gratiarum actiones
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Liesborn (North-Rhine Westphalia), Benedictines, inscription and shelfmark: Classe 3 (Horologium, leaf [a]1r), monastery dissolved 1803 and library largely sent to Berlin Royal Library; J. Leslie (bookseller), Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, ticket (front pastedown); Augustus Langdon (1813-1874), armorial bookplate, sales, Library: Evans, 10 May 1837 and Numismatic library: Sotheby's, 18 March 1875; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in August 1896 by: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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