tig00176000

Text-inc Id:

tig00176000

Bod-inc Id:

G-080

Headings:

Gerardus de Zutphania De spiritualibus ascensionibus, et al. Part I.

Analysis of content:

1. [A1r] [Title-page.] ‘Tractatus de spiritualibus ascensionibus'.
2. [A2r] Gerardus de Zutphania: De spiritualibus ascensionibus. See G‑079.
3. N6r [David de Augusta: De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione Lib. II, 1.] ‘De quattuor in quibus incipientes deo seruire debent esse cauti si proficere uolunt'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uatuor autem sunt in quibus noni(!) et incipientes . . . ’ Explicit: O propter Christum pati et ita intrare in gloriam suam See G‑079. Part II.
4. O1r [Title-page.] ‘De uita et beneficiis saluatoris Iesu Christi deuotissime meditationes cum gratiarum actione'.
5. O2r [Thomas a Kempis: Meditationes de vita Christi.] ‘Prefatio'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. M. J. Pohl, 7 vols (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1902-22), V 3.
6. O2r [Thomas a Kempis: Meditationes de vita Christi.] Incipit: ‘Incipiunt deuote gratiarum actiones de tota uita mediatoris dei et hominum Ihesu Christi. Et primo oratio multum excitantia ad laudandum deum. [D]omine deus meus laudare te desidero . . .’ Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, V 4-214; see also VL IX 862-82. Often ascribed to Thomas à Kempis but also to Henricus Arnoldi; see Kent Emery Jr, Dionysii Cartusiensis Opera Selecta: Prolegomena: Bibliotheca Manuscripta: 1B: Studia Bibliographia, CCCM 121A (Turnholt, 1991), 375-7. Part III.
7. [Ee1r] [Title-page.]
8. [Ee2r] [Bertholdus]: Horologium devotionis. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam secundum beatum Gregorium, “Omnis Christi actio nostra est instructio” . . .’ See B‑232.

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, c.1488-93]. 8°. As dated by BMC. GW dates to [c.1488/94]. In three parts: (1) De spiritualibus ascensionibus; (2) Meditationes; (3) Horologium. Found separately or in any combination.

Collation:

Part I: [A] B–N⁸; part II: O–DD⁸; part III: [Ee] Ff–Pp⁸. One woodcut.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ig00176000 GW 10688; HC *16294 (I); H *2991 = *8929 (III); C 3954 (II); Goff G‑176; BMC I 126; Pr 564 (I), 564A (III); BSB‑Ink G‑126; Sack, Freiburg, 1529; Schramm XX p. 27 (III); Schreiber V 4097 (I), 3445 (III); Sheppard 431 (III). LCN: 14002803

Copies:

1. G-080(1) Copy Bertholdus, Horologium devotionis only; wanting [Ee1]. Bound with A‑216; see there for details of binding and provenance see A‑216. Size of leaf: 141 × 98 mm. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes in red. Occasional early corrections to the text. SHELFMARK: Inc. f. N1.1487.1(1).