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THOMAS À KEMPIS (ca 1380-1471). Imitatio Christi. - Johannes GERSON (1363-1429). De meditatione cordis. Venice: [Johannes Leoviler, de Hallis] for Franciscus de Madiis, 1486.
Median 8o (150 x 99 mm). Collation: π2 a-g8 h10. 65 leaves (of 68; without the first quire π2 [table] and final blank). 35 lines, double column. Gothic types 2:135 (headlines), Haebler 3:64 (text). Modern calf gilt, edges gilt, by Max Fonsèque. Provenance: marginalia in an early hand -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles) -- donated to SMS 6 December 1937.
One of only a handful of works printed by Johannes Leoviler, who printed books for Franciscus Renner and, still using Renner types, for Franciscus de Madiis, as here. The Imitatio Christi is here erroneously attributed to Gerson. BMC V, 406 (IA. 22785); HC (+Add) *9090; Harvard/Walsh 2192; Pr 5665; Goff I-11.
Median 8o (150 x 99 mm). Collation: π2 a-g8 h10. 65 leaves (of 68; without the first quire π2 [table] and final blank). 35 lines, double column. Gothic types 2:135 (headlines), Haebler 3:64 (text). Modern calf gilt, edges gilt, by Max Fonsèque. Provenance: marginalia in an early hand -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles) -- donated to SMS 6 December 1937.
One of only a handful of works printed by Johannes Leoviler, who printed books for Franciscus Renner and, still using Renner types, for Franciscus de Madiis, as here. The Imitatio Christi is here erroneously attributed to Gerson. BMC V, 406 (IA. 22785); HC (+Add) *9090; Harvard/Walsh 2192; Pr 5665; Goff I-11.