Opera et libri vite Fratris Thome de Kempis ordinis Canonicorum regularium quoru[m] titulos vide in prmo folio.
1494
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Opera et libri vite Fratris Thome de Kempis ordinis Canonicorum regularium quoru[m] titulos vide in prmo folio.
Uniform title
Works. 1494
Created/published
Nuremberge : Per Caspar Hochfeder opificē accuratissime impressi, in vigilia Andree Ap[osto]li [29 Nov.] Anno [Christ]i 1494.
Description
[4], CLXXVIII [i.e. CLXXX] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
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Edited by Peter Danhauser.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: []⁴ a-b⁸ c-d⁶ e-g⁸ h⁶ i⁸ k⁶ l⁸ m-o⁶ p⁸ q⁶ r⁸ s-t⁶ v⁸ x-y⁶ z⁸ A-B⁶ C⁸.
Printed in 2 columns (except preliminary letters).
Capital spaces with guide letters; head lines give title of the tract and the foliation.
Folios XL, XLI, and XLII misnumbered XXXIX.
Includes the anonymous Imitatio Christi, formerly attributed to Thomas à Kempis.
Includes the De meditatione cordis of Jean Gerson, the Alphabetum boni monachi of Pseudo-Bonaventure, and an exchange of letters between Georgius Pirckamer and Danhauser.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: []⁴ a-b⁸ c-d⁶ e-g⁸ h⁶ i⁸ k⁶ l⁸ m-o⁶ p⁸ q⁶ r⁸ s-t⁶ v⁸ x-y⁶ z⁸ A-B⁶ C⁸.
Printed in 2 columns (except preliminary letters).
Capital spaces with guide letters; head lines give title of the tract and the foliation.
Folios XL, XLI, and XLII misnumbered XXXIX.
Includes the anonymous Imitatio Christi, formerly attributed to Thomas à Kempis.
Includes the De meditatione cordis of Jean Gerson, the Alphabetum boni monachi of Pseudo-Bonaventure, and an exchange of letters between Georgius Pirckamer and Danhauser.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001-2002. The Reader Revealed (catalog entry 108)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1987. Folger's Choice (catalog entry 53)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 1:7)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2018. Form and Function: The Genius of the Book. Closed.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1987. Folger's Choice (catalog entry 53)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 1:7)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2018. Form and Function: The Genius of the Book. Closed.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, T-352
Hain-Copinger *9769
BM 15th cent., II, p. 475 (IB.8174)
Vekene, E. van der. Kaspar Hochfeder, 17
Hain-Copinger *9769
BM 15th cent., II, p. 475 (IB.8174)
Vekene, E. van der. Kaspar Hochfeder, 17
Includes
Imitatio Christi. 1494.
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Place of creation/publication
Germany -- Nuremberg.
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INC T320
Folger-specific note
Most of initials rubricated in red, some in blue (alternating in pts. of the book); 1 large initial in red (leaf q2r), 3 in red and blue (leaves o3r, s3v and t3r); most of the large capital spaces left unrubricated; capital strokes and paragraph marks supplied in red. Leaf e2 (signed e3) perforated, slightly affecting text. Manuscript note on leaf m3v and y5r. Bound in a German chained binding, c. 1495, of alum tawed pigskin over wooden boards with blind decoration and adorned with brass corner bosses, title plaque, clasps, and several links of iron chain. Both covers blind tooled with three-line fillet border. Upper cover decorated with a vine-like tool with tendrils (crocketed ogive tool); lower cover central panel divided in 12 lozenges with a fleur-de-lys stamped in the center of each; strips of vellum manuscript used as reinforcement. Cf. Folger Shakespeare Library. Fine and historic bookbindings, 1:7; in a tailored box. Bookplate of Sir Robert Shafto Adair, bart.; bookplate "Chippenham Lodge, Ely 1950" of John Michael Henry Hely-Hutchinson, 7th Earl of Donoughmore; his sale, Sotheby's, March 12, 1956, lot 15. Purchased in 1956 from F. Edwards, London. With: Albertus, Magnus, Saint. Compendium theologice veritatis. Impressum Argentine : [Johann Prüss], anno D[o]m[ini] 1489.