Tractat[us] de ymitat[i]o[n]e [Christ]i : cum tractatulo de meditatione cordis.

Accession number:

PML 125704.1

Uniform title:

Imitatio Christi.

Published:

[Nuremberg, Germany : Anton Koberger], 1492

Description:

[8], 182, [2] leaves ; 14 cm. (8vo)

Credit Line:

Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r): "Tractat[us] de ymitat[i]o[n]e [christ]i. Cum tractatulo de meditatione cordis."
Colophon (leaf z6r): "Tractatus aureus et perutlis de p[er]fecta ymitat[i]o[n]e [christ]i et vero mundi conte[m]ptu. Cum tractatulo de meditat[i]o[n]e cordis finiu[n]t feliciter Anno domini. M.cccc.lxxxxii."
Printed in Koberger's types 14:130 (title and headlines), 15:91 (headings), and 21:74 (text).
Collation: [1]⁸, a-z⁸: 192 leaves, leaves [1]/8, z7-8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo
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), 520-536 (CIBN).
Table of contents on leaves [1]/2r-7v.
Printed with Jean Gerson, De meditatione cordis (leaves y4r-z6r), "Incipit trctatus de meditat[i]o[n]e cordis Joha[n]nis Gerson."
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.4 x 9.8 cm.

Binding:

Modern half calf over original German beechwood boards (13.9 x 10 cm). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. One clasp, wanting. Manuscript quire guard in final quire. Gilt titles on colored leather on spine.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paraphs, capital strokes, and underlining (same rubrication throughout volume). Annotations: Incipit for Hugo of St. Victor, De meditatione (leaf z6r).

Provenance:

Modern (early 20th-century?) shelfmarks, unidentified: 103:a:46 (crossed out) and 120:d:3 (front pastedown); Julia P. Wightman (1909-1994), bookplate (front pastedown) with price code "HWM" and purchase date of 1964 (front fly verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Wooden boards (Binding)

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books