tii00007000

Text-inc Id:

tii00007000

Bod-inc Id:

T-097

Headings:

Thomas àKempis Imitatio Christi.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Liber de imitatione Ihesu Cristi'.
2. a2r [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘[A]pud omnes sane mentis homines ea demum scientia appetibilis . . .’
3. a2v [Thomas àKempis]: Imitatio Christi. ‘De imitacione Christi et contemptu omnium uanitatum mundi'. Thomas à Kempis, Opera, ed. Pohl, II 5-263.
4. dd4v [Explicit.] Incipit: ‘Explicit liber de imitacione Ihesu Christi conscriptum a quodam uiro . . .’
5. dd5r [Colophon.]
6. dd5r ‘Capitula'.
7. ee3r ‘Oratio xxxiii ex libro orationum seu meditacionum de uita et passione Ihesu'. Incipit: ‘[B]enedico te Ihesu reparator uiciate nature . . .’ Explicit: donec accipiar ad gratiam
8. ee6v ‘Oratio beati Augustini'. Incipit: ‘[D]omine Ihesu Christe fili dei uiui qui in hunc mundum propter nos peccatores . . .’ ad societatem ciuium superorum..amen V. Leroquais, Les Psautiers manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, 2 vols (Mâcon, 1940-1), I 23.

Imprint:

[Lübeck: Matthaeus Brandis], 1485. 8°. As assigned by Pr and Sheppard.

Collation:

a–z aa–ee⁸. Types: 155 (approx.), title; 98 (Haebler, types 1,2). 224 leaves. 19 lines (a1r). Type area: 145 ×100 mm (a1r).

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ii00007000 H 9086; C Addenda 3228a; R 949; Goff I‑7; Pr 2642; GfT 44; Sheppard 1906. Microfiche: Unit 19: Printing in and for the Baltic Area Part II, BA 111. LCN: 14536724

Copies:

1. T-097(1) Copy Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled, much worn, calf over wooden boards, with one metal clasp and catch. Leather index tabs dyed red. Triple fillets form a double frame. On the upper cover, within the outer frame a circular ‘IHS' stamp; within the inner rectangle small circular floral stamps, very small lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis, and a rectangular scroll. The lower cover is not stamped. Size: 149 × 110 × 50 mm. Size of leaf: 145 × 100 mm. The front pastedown consists of half of a letter in Middle Low German, on parchment, dated [14]85, and addressed to Gerhard der Streitbare (†1500), Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, Westphalia; see Zedler VII 461-2 and XXV 1136-37; SC 509. Interlinear punctuation has been added in an early hand in brown ink, throughout the book. In the same hand also some marginal corrections. On a2r a four-line initial ‘A' is supplied in red with brown pen-work decoration. From the letter extends a floral and foliate border in the inner and lower margin, in red and brown. Other initials are supplied in red, sometimes with reserved white decoration; chapter heading underlining and capital strokes in red. Provenance: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1573-1645); inscription on a2r: ‘Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis et Cancellarii Vniuersitatis Oxoniensis 1635'. Donated by Laud in 1636; see Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, p. xxxvi. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: Laud 26; B.28 Laud. SHELFMARK: MS. Laud Misc. 26.