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Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 03265

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Source
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
Library
Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Shelfmark
  • MSS 03265
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • ca. 1460-1480
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Dell'immitatione di Cristo
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    [76] leaves.
    Note:
    Generally attributed to Thomas à Kempis; formerly attributed to St Bernard, St Bonaventure, Pope Innocent III, Henry of Kalkar, John à Kempis, Walter Hilton, and Jean Gerson.
    Italian translation attributed to Lorenzo Giustiniani, who is mentioned in the opening rubric.
    Collation: i-vii¹⁰, viii⁶.
    Modern foliation added in pencil.
    Horizontal catchwords, middle lower margin.
    Ruled in ink and lead, with pricking visible on some leaves.
    Bound in modern pastiche binding in the style of 15th-century humanistic bindings; signed by Roger Devauchelle. Blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards; spine with three raised bands, and vellum label. Upper and lower covers with four small brass bosses, with fastenings made from waxed twine. Boards slightly warped.
    Leaves [1] to [48r] written in a very small running gothico-antiqua script; leaves [48v] to [66v] displays cursive elements; leaves [67r] to [73] in humanist script.
    Written by at least three hands in Italian; in black ink with ornamental initials in gold, red, and blue; eight pages contain illuminated borders and initials.
    Two fine illuminated initials with borders on leaves [1r] and [16v]
    Majuscules stroked with red, red rubrics and numbers within the chapter lists; alternately red and blue paragraph marks; two-line alternately red and blue initials with contrasting violet or red pen decoration on leaves [1] to [20v], with red pen decorations thereafter.
    Drolleries on leaves [21v], [30r], and [31v].
    Two five-line blue initials on leaves [25v] and [57r] with polished gold frames, following the shape of the initial, infilled with red pen decoration.
    Occasional nota marks and marginal corrections on leaves [11r], [28v], and [30r]; text stricken through on leaf [16v].
    "In comenza la espositione del pater noster ne la quale se contiene li 7 doni de lo spirito sancto contra li 7 peccati mortali": leaves [71v] to [73].
    Easter table added in Latin on leaf [75v]. Inscription erased at end of Easter table.
    Purchase; Les Enluminures, 16 May 2013; MS.13.035.
    Previously belonged to Acton Griscom (b. 1891) of High Point, New Jersey, who acquired it from Gilhofer and Ranschburg (Cat. 218, c. 1930, no. 246). Subsequently owned by Joost R. Ritman, who acquired it from Sotheby's (29 Nov. 1990, lot 114).
    Subject:
    Jesus Christ Meditations
    Manuscripts, Italian
    Christian life--Early works to 1800
    Spiritual life--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800
    Manuscripts, Medieval
Place
  • Preferred form
    • France
    Original form
    • France
    Other form
    • France (Paris ? Fontainebleau ?)
    • France.
    • France (?)
    • Lieu de copie : France ( ?) : cf. Hans-Collas ― Schandel, p. 327
    • France ?
    • France -- 16e siècle
    • Frankreich
    • França
    • Francia
    • Frankrijk
    • Abbaye de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abadia de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abtei Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abadía de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abdij van Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Région de la Loire (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
    • Loire Region (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Regió del Loira (Abadia de Fleury ?)
    • Región del Loira (Abadía de Fleury ?)
    • France (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
    • França (Abadia de Fleury?)
    • Francia (Abadía de Fleury?)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Frankreich (Abtei Fleury?)
    • Frankrijk (Abdij van Fleury?)
    • France (est : Lorraine ?)
    • França (est: Lorena?)
    • Ostfrankreich (Lothringen?)
    • Eastern France (Lorraine?)
    • Francia (este: Lorena?)
    • Lothringen
    • Lorena
    • Lotharingen
    • Lorraine
    • França (Borgonya?)
    • France (Burgundy?)
    • Francia (Borgoña)
    • France (Bourgogne ?)
    • Frankrijk (Bourgondië?)
    • France (Bretagne ?)
    • França (Bretanya?)
    • Frankreich (Bretagne?)
    • France (Brittany?)
    • Francia (Bretaña)
    • Frankrijk (Bretagne?)
    • France (ouest : Bretagne ?)
    • Western France (Brittany?)
    • França (oest: Bretanya?)
    • Francia (oeste: Bretaña?)
    • Frankrijk (westen) (Bretagne?)
    • Westfrankreich: Bretagne?
    • Bretagne
    • Bretanya
    • Bretaña
    • Brittany
    • Probably the Loire region
    • France: Auxerre or Brittany
    • France: Fleury. vicinity of Paris (Saint-Denis?) (Bischoff)
    • France: Ile-de-France (Sens?)
    • France: Fleury; Reims?
    • France (Southern France?)
    • France: Fleury
    • France: probably Auxerre
    • France: evidently Eastern France
    • Central- or southern France
    • France, Vienne
    • [France]
    • Paris (?)
    • France (Paris?) or Flanders
    • France (3rd part)
    • Strassburg (probably)
    • Paris (?) or Tours (?)
    • France (Normandy?)
    • Rouen (?) or Paris (?)
    • France: Champagne, Burgundy or Centre
    • Lyon or Luxeuil (?)
    • France (Besançon?)
    • France (Paris?)
    • France, Northern (probably)
    • Probably Eastern France
    • St. Denis near Paris (monastery) (?)
    • Tours (?)
    • France (possibly near the court)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • [Provence?]
    • France, East (?)
    • France, Northeast?
    • France, Pontigny (or Paris?)
    • France, North?
    • France, Paris?
    • France, Diocese of Limoges?
    • France, Auxerre or area
    • France, Burgundy?
    • France, Brittany or Paris?
    • France, Angers?
    • France, Normandy?
    • France, East?
    • France, Bourges?
    • France, Anjou?
    • France, Northwest?
    • France, Tours?
    • France (probably Paris)
    • France, Europe
    • SW France?
    • FR
    • [FR]
    • Frankreich (Angers?)
    • Frankrijk (?)
    • Gallia
    • Gallia (Frankrijk)
    • Gallia? (Frankrijk?)
    • Frankreich (I.)
    • Frankreich (III.)
    • Frankreich (III)
    • Frankreich (II)
    • Frankreich (I)
    • I./III. Frankreich
    • II. Frankreich
    • Frankreich (Ergänzung)
    • [Frankrijk]
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  • Preferred form
    • Venice (Veneto, Italy) (?)
    Original form
    • Venice?
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