Imitatio Christi.

Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Venice] : Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis, and Dionysius Bertochus, 1485.
Description
56 leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Details

Printer
Former owner
Rare books genre
Notes
Commonly attributed to Thomas à Kempis.
Binding note
ExI copy: Contemporary blind-stamped brown sheepskin over bevelled wooden boards, boards with frame containing rosettes and wheat sheaves, central panel on upper covered diapered with compartments containing a leafy lozenge or a wheat sheaf, that on lower cover in triangles stamped with a Maria banner, lower cover with brass bosses at corners, one lacking, one replaced, raised bands, re-backed to style, catch plate and anchor from original clasp, strap lacking, late 18th century endpapers.
Provenance
ExI copy: Two leaves added at front with extensive ink notations in a contemporary hand; first of these leaves and a1r with additional ownership inscription of St. Mang's Abbey, Füssen.
References
  • Goff I-8
  • Hain-Copinger-Reichling 9088
  • BM 15th cent., V, p. 390 (IA. 22229)
OCLC
17428503
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