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THOMAS A KEMPIS (ca.1380-1471). Imitatio Christi. - Johannes GERSON. De meditatione cordis. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1488.
Chancery 4° (199 x 140mm). Collation: a-e8 f6 (a1r Imitatio Christi, f3v colophon, f4r De meditatione cordis, f6v blank). 46 leaves. 40 lines and headline, double column. Woodcut white-vine initials opening each book, the first coloured, lombard initials, paragraph marks in red. (Some headlines slightly trimmed.) 19th-century vellum, stamped in gilt and blind.
The Imitatio Christi is here attributed erroneously to Gerson. HC(+Add) *9094; BMC II, 382 (IA. 6676); Goff I-16; Polain(B) 4452.
Chancery 4° (199 x 140mm). Collation: a-e8 f6 (a1r Imitatio Christi, f3v colophon, f4r De meditatione cordis, f6v blank). 46 leaves. 40 lines and headline, double column. Woodcut white-vine initials opening each book, the first coloured, lombard initials, paragraph marks in red. (Some headlines slightly trimmed.) 19th-century vellum, stamped in gilt and blind.
The Imitatio Christi is here attributed erroneously to Gerson. HC(+Add) *9094; BMC II, 382 (IA. 6676); Goff I-16; Polain(B) 4452.