Bod-Inc: T-090
Thomas àKempis
Opera (ed. Petrus Danhauser).
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Title-page.] ‘Opera et libri uite fratris Thome de kempis ordinis canonicorum regularium quorum titulos uide in prmo(!) folio'.
[*1v] ‘Tituli operum'.
[*2r] Pirckheimer, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Danhauser. Incipit: ‘Multas et uarias artes que ad uitam bene beateque agendam faciant summa industria . . .’ Dated Nuremberg, 14 Feb. 1494.
[*3r] Danhauser, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Georgius Pirckheimer. Incipit: ‘Multa quidem in uita utilia esse . . .’
[*3v] [List of contents of Imitatio Christi.] Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. M. J. Pohl, 7 vols (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1902-4), II 4.
a1r Thomas àKempis: Imitatio Christi. Edited by Petrus Danhauser, as stated in his letter to Pirckheimer. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, II 5-263. On the attribution to Thomas à Kempis see R. R. Post, The Modern Devotion (Leiden, 1968), 520-36; A. Ampe, L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ et son auteur, Sussidi eruditi, 25 (Rome, 1973); VL IX 862-82, at 868; Uwe Neddermeyer, ‘Radix studii et Speculum vitae: Verbreitung unf Rezeptin der ‘Imitatio Christi' in Handschriften und Drucken bis zur Reformation', Studien zum 15. Jahrhundert: Festschrift für Erich Meuthen, ed. Johannes Helmrath and Heribert Müller, with Helmut Wolff, 2 vols (Munich, 1994), I 457-81; LMA V 386-7.
d5r Gerson, Johannes: De meditatione cordis. Gerson, Oeuvres, VIII 77-84.
e1r Thomas àKempis: Dialogi novitiorum, liber II: Vita Gerardi Magni. ‘Liber uite magistri Gerhardi magni uulgariter grossus'. ‘Prologus'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 31-2.
e1r ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 32-3.
e1r Thomas àKempis: Dialogi novitiorum, liber II: Vita Gerardi Magni. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 33-115.
f2v Thomas àKempis: Dialogi novitiorum, liber III: Vita domini Florentii. ‘Prologus in uitam reuerendi patris domini Florentii deuoti presbyteri et uicarii ecclesie Dauentriensis'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 116-19.
f2v ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 119-20.
f3r Thomas àKempis: Dialogi novitiorum, liber III: Vita domini Florentii. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 121-210.
g4v Thomas àKempis: Dialogi novitiorum, liber IV: De discipulis domini Florentii. ‘Prologus'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 211-13.
g4v ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 213-14.
g5r Thomas àKempis: Dialogi novitiorum, liber IV: De discipulis domini Florentii. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 214-329.
i4r Thomas àKempis: Soliloquium animae. ‘Prologus'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, I 191-3.
i4r ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, I 193.
i4r Thomas àKempis: Soliloquium animae. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, I 194-346.
l8r Thomas àKempis: De disciplina claustralium. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, II 267-319.
m6v [Vita Thomae a Kempis.] ‘Aliqua notabilia de conuersatione Thome Kempis'. Incipit: ‘[H]ic Thomas cognomento Heymergyn . . .’ Explicit: possunt scire quot sunt
n1r Thomas àKempis: Alphabetum devoti monachi. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, III 317-21. Without ‘Conclusio' and ‘Benedictio'.
n2r Thomas àKempis: Sermones ad novitios regulares. ‘Prologus'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VI 3-4.
n2r ‘Tituli sermonum'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VI 4-5.
n2r Thomas àKempis: Sermones ad novitios regulares. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VI 7-314.
s3v ‘Tituli sermonum'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, I 82.
s3v Thomas àKempis: Sermones devoti. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, I 83-128.
t3r Thomas àKempis: Dialogi novitiorum, liber I: de contemptu mundi. ‘Dyalogus nouiciorum'. ‘Prologus'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 3-4.
t3r ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 4.
t3r Thomas àKempis: Dialogi novitiorum, liber I: de contemptu mundi. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, VII 4-30.
t6r Thomas àKempis: Cantica. ‘Canticum de laudibus sanctarum uirginum'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 384-6; 273-6; 266-7; 246-7.
t6v ‘Tituli'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 448.
t6v Thomas àKempis: Epistolae. They include: Ad spiritualem profectum; De custodia habenda; Pro confortatione temptati; De conversione; De pia memoria defunctorum; Ad quendam regularem; Ad quendam cellarium; Ad quendam a ministerio suo absolutum et recommendatione solitudinis et custodia silentii. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 449-61; 462-66; 466-73; 474-79; 479-83; II 323-28; I 131-87; IV 401-45.
y2r Thomas àKempis: Libellus de paupertate humilitate et patientia, sive de tribus tabernaculis. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, I 3-62.
z2r Thomas àKempis: Libellus de vera compunctione cordis. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, I 65-80.
z4r ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 2.
z4r Thomas àKempis: Hortulus rosarum. ‘Liber qui dicitur ortulus rosarum de bona societate querenda et mala fugienda'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 3-50.
A1r Thomas àKempis: Vallis liliorum. ‘Prologus'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 53-4.
A1v ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 54-5.
A1v Thomas àKempis: Vallis liliorum. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 55-134.
B4r Thomas àKempis: Alphabetum monachi. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, III 317-22.
B4v Thomas àKempis: Consolatio pauperum. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 137-40.
B5r ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 142.
B5r Thomas àKempis: Breve epitaphium monachorum. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 143-152.
B6r ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 154.
B6r Thomas àKempis: Vita boni monachi. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 155-60.
B6v Thomas àKempis: Cantica. They include: Rigmus(!) de uita Iesu imitanda; De inuocatione nominis Iesu Marie et sanctorum. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 245-50 nos II and VI.
B6v ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 162.
B6v Thomas àKempis: Manuale parvulorum. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 163-78.
C2r ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 180.
C2r Thomas àKempis: Doctrinale iuvenum. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 181-99.
C4r ‘Capitula'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 202.
C4r Thomas àKempis: Hospitale pauperum. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, IV 203-40.
Imprint
Imprint: Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder, 29 Nov. 1494. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*4] a b8 c d6 e f8 g–m8.6 n o6 p8 q6 r–B8.6.6 C8.
References
ISTC: it00352000
Hain: HC (+ Addenda) *9769;
Goff: Goff T‑352;
BMC: BMC II 475;
Proctor: Pr 2291;
Others: BSB‑Ink T‑195; CIBN T‑222; Rhodes 1720; Sack, Freiburg, 3465-6; Sheppard 1664-5.
LCN: 14098133
Copies
Copy number: T-090(1)
Binding: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, with one central metal catch and remains of a clasp; five bosses lost from each cover. Triple fillets form a double frame. Diagonal triple fillets divide the inner rectangle into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments. Blind-tooled on the upper cover: ‘F MINOR | CON RATIS'; see also B‑383(1). Manuscript title on a square paper label pasted at the head of the spine. Yellow-edged leaves. Leather index tabs dyed red. Titles of works, in abbreviated form, across the fore-edge.
Size: 315 × 220 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 307 × 210 mm.
Two parchment leaves, containing a fourteenth/fifteenth-century manuscript text, have been removed from the inside covers, leaving the impression of the text on the wooden boards. Strips from similar manuscripts still visible in the binding.
Manuscript corrections to the text of Imitatio Christi in a contemporary German hand, apparently that of the rubricator. A few other corrections in a later, humanist hand. Some early folio numbering in red crayon in the lower margin of the rectos. ‘8 cr.' in brown ink, in an early hand, on [*1r], ‘12' possibly in the same hand, in the lower right-hand corner. A gathering of five paper leaves is bound at the end; it has been ruled to contain an index in two columns, with a letter of the alphabet, in red ink, at the head of each, but it was not completed.
Initials, paragraph marks, and chapter heading underlining are supplied in red; capital strokes in red.
Provenance: Regensburg, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Salvator; see binding above. Unidentified stamp on [*ir]: eighteenth-century ‘C C's addorsed and interlaced beneath a coronet. Purchased for £1. 16. 0; see Books Purchased (1860), 49.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 3Q 4.19.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 4.22.
Copy number: T-090(2)
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 322 × 233 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 312 × 207 mm.
Occasional marginal notes, mainly providing corrections to the text, also numbering the list of contents on [*1v] and pointing hands, in an early German hand, in dark brown ink.
Principal initials are supplied in blue with cadelles or reserved white decoration.
Provenance: Augsburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, SS. Udalrichus et Afra; inscription on [*1r]: ‘Imperial. Monast: SS: Udalricii et Afre Aug. Vindel.' Joseph Niesert (1766-1841), 1818; inscription on [*1r]: ‘Bibliothecae J. Niesert pastoris in Velen 1818'; sale (1843), lot 13748. Purchased at Niesert's sale for £1. 16. 6: see Books Purchased (1843), 28.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 1.21.
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