Th: à Kempis canonici regularis ordin: S. August: De imitatione Christi libri quatuor.
Thomas à Kempis (Kempen 1380 - Utrecht 1471)
Category
Books
Date
1658
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005841
Summary
Bibliographic description
261, [3] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 3238. Ephemera inserted loosely at rear: cut-out paper medallion with hand-coloured vignette of a woman with a lamb, on the other side of which is a very faint manuscript inscription in pencil "Sophia". Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on front fly-leaf: "Z.49.". Manuscript inscriptions on second front fly-leaf: "pt. [i.e. pretium] ... [illegible]", "Ex libris Gervasij ... [rest cropped off]", and "Haec monachus scripsit, Manachi non talia ... [partially cropped] nunc mihi linguunt". Binding: seventeenth-century calf; double blind fillet border, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind fillets on spine. Blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas à Kempis (Kempen 1380 - Utrecht 1471) Johannes Bolland (1596-1665), editor Heribert Rosweyde (1569-1629), author