Gerson, Ioannes

De Immitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi in vulgari Sermone

      Bartholomaeus de Zanis, Venice 1491 - 23 december 1491. In 4°. 76 unnumbered leaves, handwritten initials and woodcut initials, roman type, good copy with full margins, light brownings, little loss of paper on the margins on leaves f4 and g4 (left bottom corner, does not affect the text), CONTEMPORARY BINDING on wooden axis, handwritten title on the board, end-leaves in parchment from a mercantesque XIVth century manuscript, little wormhole on one board. With an acid-free clamshell box. VERY RARE EDITION of this book, both given to the theologist Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363 -1429), known as "doctor Christianissimus Cancellarius" from the church and the University Notre-Dame de Paris, and to Thomas from Kempis, (1380 - 1471). Hain 9129; Goff I50. PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.