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Bod-Inc: T-113

Thomas àKempis

Imitatio Christi [Italian] Imitazione di Gesu Cristo.

 

Analysis of Content

Subject: literature

a1r Gerson, Johannes [pseudo-; Thomas àKempis]: Imitatio Christi [Italian] Imitazione di Gesu Cristo. ‘Della imitatione di Christo Iesu et del dispregio di tutte le cose del mondo'.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ice el nostro signore redemptore Iesu Christo nel sancto euangelio. Quello el quale seguita me non ua nelle tenebre. . . .’ n4v Explicit: ‘...non si potrebbono chiamare grande ne marauigliose ne gloriose. Et per tanto ad firmandum cor sincerum sola fides sufficit.’

n4v Colophon: ‘Impresso in Firenze per Maestro Antonio Miscomini Adi.xxii.di giugno. M.CCCCLXXXXI.’

n5r [Table of contents] ‘INCOMINCIA LA TAVOLA DE CAPITOLI DE LIBRI PRECEDENTI.’ [In this edition, the table of books 1-4 follows the text].

Imprint

Imprint: Florence Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini 22 June 1491 4°.

Collation

Collation: a–n8.

References

ISTC: ii00048000

Hain: HC (+ Addenda) 9128;

Goff: Goff I‑48;

BMC: BMC VI 640;

Proctor: Pr 6153;

Others: BSB‑Ink T‑188; CIBN T‑257; Copinger, Hand List, 1344, 1346; Sheppard 5113.

LCN: 14438582

Copies

Copy number: T-113(1)

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian quarter green morocco over marbled pasteboards; bound for Boutourlin. Title and imprint information printed in gold on the spine. Green-edged leaves, pink pastedowns, and pink silk bookmark.

Size: 200 × 126 × 19 mm.

Size of leaf: 192 × 116 mm.

Notes in Italian in a sixteenth-century Italian hand in brown ink, on n7v: ‘Masseritie dj 4 Mr c[ ]tilla dj Gia || milanese compie gli anni dj L30 all || cio ista[n]za del Cavaliere Liono rosar[/n?]i || (?)'.

Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 469, see Catalogue (1831); purchased at his sale for £0. 15. 0: see sale catalogue (1841), lot 115, and Books Purchased (1842), 21.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 6.45.


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