BOOK, Incunable, Venice 1496.
BOOK, Incunable, Venice 1496.
Thomas a Kempis:
Imitatio Christi. [And:] Johannes Gerson: De meditatione cordis.
Venice, [?Georgius Arrivabenus], 31 Jan. 1496 / 1497. 8vo. 14,5 x 9,8 cm. 84 leaves (of [4] + [84], lacking first quire of preliminaries). Single column, 29 lines and headline, gothic type.
Old boards covered in a vellum 14th-century manuscript leaf, a little scuffed and worn, very light occasional soiling internally. Circular stamp of Stonyhurst College, annotations to endleaves. Provenance: Sotheby’s, June 18 2003, no 155.
ISTC ii00031000. GW M46817.
Assigned to Arrivabenus by Proctor, but unassigned in BMC.
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