tii00048000

Text-inc Id:

tii00048000

Bod-inc Id:

T-113

Headings:

Thomas àKempis Imitatio Christi [Italian] Imitazione di Gesu Cristo.

Subjects:

literature

Analysis of content:

1. a1r Gerson, Johannes [pseudo-; Thomas àKempis]: Imitatio Christi [Italian] Imitazione di Gesu Cristo. ‘Della imitatione di Christo Iesu et del dispregio di tutte le cose del mondo'.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ice el nostro signore redemptore Iesu Christo nel sancto euangelio. Quello el quale seguita me non ua nelle tenebre. . . .’ n4v Explicit: ‘...non si potrebbono chiamare grande ne marauigliose ne gloriose. Et per tanto ad firmandum cor sincerum sola fides sufficit.’
2. n4v Colophon: ‘Impresso in Firenze per Maestro Antonio Miscomini Adi.xxii.di giugno. M.CCCCLXXXXI.’
3. n5r [Table of contents] ‘INCOMINCIA LA TAVOLA DE CAPITOLI DE LIBRI PRECEDENTI.’ [In this edition, the table of books 1-4 follows the text].

Imprint:

Florence Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini 22 June 1491 4°.

Collation:

a–n⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ii00048000 HC (+ Addenda) 9128; Goff I‑48; BMC VI 640; Pr 6153; BSB‑Ink T‑188; CIBN T‑257; Copinger, Hand List, 1344, 1346; Sheppard 5113. LCN: 14438582

Copies:

1. T-113(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian quarter green morocco over marbled pasteboards; bound for Boutourlin. Title and imprint information printed in gold on the spine. Green-edged leaves, pink pastedowns, and pink silk bookmark. Size: 200 × 126 × 19 mm. Size of leaf: 192 × 116 mm. Notes in Italian in a sixteenth-century Italian hand in brown ink, on n7v: ‘Masseritie dj 4 M^r c[ ]tilla dj Gia || milanese compie gli anni dj L³⁰ all || cio ista[n]za del Cavaliere Lion^o rosar[/n?]i || (?)'. Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 469, see Catalogue (1831); purchased at his sale for £0. 15. 0: see sale catalogue (1841), lot 115, and Books Purchased (1842), 21. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 6.45.