tii00012000

Text-inc Id:

tii00012000

Bod-inc Id:

T-100

Headings:

Thomas àKempis Imitatio Christi.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r ‘Tabula'.
2. 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:

Antwerp: Mathias van der Goes, [between 1486 and 1491]. 4°. As dated by HPT; Sheppard dates [1487-92].

Collation:

a⁴ b–o⁶. Leaf a2 signed ‘a'. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ii00012000 HC 9082; Goff I‑12; Pr 9412; Campbell 805; CIBN T‑232; HPT I 67-9, II 389; ILC 1264; Inventaris, 69; Sheppard 7201. LCN: 14533578

Copies:

1. T-100(1) Copy 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.