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Description
ff. 1-58v. [Thomas à Kempis] De imitatione Christi. Incipit: Qui sequitur me non ambulat in tenebris dicit dominus. Explicit: non essent mirabilia nec ineffabilia dicenda et cetera. Explicit liber quartus et ultimus de ymittacione domini nostri ihesu christi. Rubric: Prima pars de ymittacione christi et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi et cetera. Capitulum primum. Latin. L. M. J. Delaissé, ed., Le manuscrit autographe de Thomas à Kempis et L'imitation de Jésus Christ. Les Publications de Scriptorim 2 (Brussels 1956). See S. G. Axters, O. P., De imitacione Christi; een handschrifteninventaris bij het vijhonderdste verijaren van Thomas Hemerken van Kempen + 1471 Kempen-Niederrhein 1971) for a list of 762 manuscripts, including HM 901 on p. 80, and T. Lupo, ed., De Imitatione Christi libri quatuor (Vatican 1982), listing HM 901 on p. xvii. Title from Digital Scriptorium description. Support: Paper. Script: Cursive. Layout: 1-4¹² 5¹²(-11, 12). Catchwords in inner right corner; leaves signed in arabic numerals in upper right hand corner of the recto. 2 columns of 32-34 lines; quire 1 ruled in ink, frame only; quires 2-5 ruled in hard point, frame only. Watermark(s): Ochsenkopf, similar to Piccard, V. 334, Dinkelsuhl, Eichstätt, etc., 1467-87, and to V.512, Biberach, öttingen, etc., 1464-66. Other Decoration: 2- and 1-line initials in red with guide letters; 1-line initials within the text slashed in red. Entries in chapter lists underscored in red; rubrics throughout. Assigned Date: s. XVmed. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XIX, in German brown paper over pasteboards. HM 901. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Jesus Christ--Meditations--Early works to 1800 Christian life--Early works to 1800 Watermarks 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Written in northern Germany in the middle of the fifteenth century. On f. 14, s. XVI:"Omnia ad maiorem dei gloriam." According to De Ricci, was n. 26153 in a German catalogue; this number on a label on the spine. Acquired from A. S. W. Rosenbach by Henry E. Huntington in December 1922.
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