Bod-Inc: T-100
Thomas àKempis
Imitatio Christi.
Analysis of Content
a2r ‘Tabula'.
b1r Gerson, Johannes [pseudo-; Thomas àKempis]: Imitatio Christi. ‘De imitatione Christi et de contemptu omnium uanitatum mundi'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, II 5-263.
Imprint
Imprint: Antwerp: Mathias van der Goes, [between 1486 and 1491]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by HPT; Sheppard dates [1487-92].
Collation
Collation: a4 b–o6.
Remarks: Leaf a2 signed ‘a'.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ii00012000
Hain: HC 9082;
Goff: Goff I‑12;
Proctor: Pr 9412;
Others: Campbell 805; CIBN T‑232; HPT I 67-9, II 389; ILC 1264; Inventaris, 69; Sheppard 7201.
LCN: 14533578
Copies
Copy number: T-100(1)
Wanting the blank leaf a1.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century quarter mottled calf over marbled pasteboards; the spine gold-tooled. Yellow-edged leaves.
Size: 205 × 145 × 17 mm.
Size of leaf: 199 × 135 mm.
Contemporary manuscript title in large characters in brown ink, on o6v.
Woodcuts are occasionally coloured in red. Initials, paragraph marks, and chapter heading underlining in red; capital strokes in red.
Provenance: Jean-François Van de Velde (1743-1823); inscription and bibliographical note on the verso of the front endleaf; sale (1831), lot 2106. Francois-Xavier Joseph Ghislain Borluut de Noortdonck (1771-1857); book-plate; see Linnig 144-5; Catalogue des livres, manuscrits, dessins et estampes, formant le cabinet de feu M. Borluut de Noortdonck (Ghent: Van der Meersch, 19 Apr. 1858), lot 132 (‘132' in brown ink, on a slip of paper inserted in the book). Cutting from a bookseller's catalogue in French, no. 133 ‘de la vente Borluut de Noortdonck'. Acquired after 1858.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 6.70.
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