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tia00527000
- Text-inc Id:
- tia00527000
- Bod-inc Id:
- A-217
- Headings:
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Alphabetum
Alphabetum divini amoris.
- Analysis of content:
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a1r [Title-page.]
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a1v [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘[T]ractatus ille pretitulatur alphabetum amoris divini quem bonorum assertione virorum edidit auctor tractatus divinissimi de ymitatione cristi vocatus dominus Thomas prepositus et prelatus canonicorum regularium in Koczen . . .’
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a2r Prohemium. Incipit: ‘[A]d honorem omnipotentis dei aliquos modos et vias pro eleuatione mentis in deum propono conscribere . . .’
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a3v ‘Tabula.’
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a3v Thomas à Kempis [pseudo-]: Alphabetum divini amoris. Incipit: ‘[A] timore seruili procedit filialis plures . . .’ Authorship ascribed in this edition to Thomas à Kempis, but in some other editions to Johannes Gerson. Also formerly erroneously ascribed to Nikolaus Kempf; see A‑213.
- Imprint:
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Memmingen: Albrecht Kunne, 1489. 4°.
- Collation:
- a–c8.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ia00527000
GW 1560;
CR 2666;
Goff A‑527;
BMC II 605;
Pr 2787;
BSB‑Ink A‑434; CIBN A‑277; Gerson, Oeuvres, I 73, no. 26b; Oates 1236; Sack, Freiburg, 128; Sheppard 2017.
LCN: 14424053
- Copies:
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A-217(1)
Copy
Binding: Nineteenth-century pasteboards.
Size: 183 × 137 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 180 × 132 mm.
Occasional early marginal notes.
Four-, five- and six-line initials supplied in red, with pen flourishing extending into the margins. Underlining and initial strokes in red, also paragraph marks stroked in red.
Provenance: Possibly either from Revd William Henry Fitzsimon Hinde (†1884) or, less probably, the library of Moxhull Hall originally formed by John Hackett (1592-1670), bishop of Lichfield; purchased at the Hinde-Moxhull Hall sale (1886), lot 968, for £0. 11. 0, but the provenance is uncertain as the sale also included other properties.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 6.61.
