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The most popular private devotional tract of the fifteenth century, bound in Bavaria and owned by the Augustinian canons of St. Nicolaus, Passau. Chancery octavo, 114 x 106 mm. Single column, 22 lines.

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This notably extravagant binding is the work of an unknown binder employed by Napoleon III (1808–1873). It is heavily decorated, using nearly every nineteenth-century technique of moulding and tooling. This binding is copy number 89 of 103 of…

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This copy of the Imitatio Christi has an inscription by a librarian that lists the contents and states that this book was donated to the Carthusian monastery of St. Margaretental in Basel.

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Christian devotional literature emphasizing ethical living and the nurturing of Christ-like inner spirituality.

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Extract of John Wesley's translation of the Imitatio Christi.

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The Imitatio Christi ("Imitation of Christ") is the most widely read Christian text after the Bible, and the most popular fifteenth-century text read today.

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First edition of the Imitatio Christi. The Imitatio Christi is the classic expression of the Devotio Moderna, or "modern devotion," a movement that responded to the widespread need for deepened spiritual life in the years before the Reformation. It…

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This Venetian edition of 1486 is one of many that attribute the Imitatio Christi to Jean Gerson (1363-1429) in the incipit preceding the text. Here, the blank space for the initial Q has been illuminated with gold leaf and handsome vegetal decoration…

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This Parisian edition of the Imitatio Christi shows Christ on the Cross surrounded by his followers and Roman soldiers. In the space on the woodcut for an inscription is a prayer that would earn the reader an indulgence.

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In this engraved frontispiece for this edition of the Imitatio Christi, Thomas à Kempis kneels in devotion before the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.

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Miniature edition with an engraved frontispiece of Christ carrying his cross up the hill on which he will be crucified.
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