Thomas à Kempis: Imitatio Christi.
Add: Johannes Gerson: De meditatione cordis.
Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1488.
4to. π2 a-e8 f6. [48] leaves.
ISTC ii00016000; GW M46726; Goff I16; BMC II 382 (IA. 6676); Bod-inc T-104; BSB-Ink T-174.
Woodcut initials.
| GIP number: | T12 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD15-c.25 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Asher & Co., booksellers, Berlin & London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Asher 3 May 1869 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code on front free endpaper “3 5 69 Asher bx/-” together with his pencil inventory number “No 4101”; source confirmed in Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | Binding: 19th-century marbled paper wrappers; leather tab on π2 suggesting this text was once bound with another or other works; partial ink title(?) on top edge; earlier sewing holes visible in inner margins of all leaves; flyleaves have watermark of a galloping unicorn with the letter “L” on its side. Size: 209 x 157 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 209 x 157 mm. |
| Annotations: | Signature f1 supplied in manuscript. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
