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THOMAS A KEMPIS (ca.1380-1471). Imitatio Christi . - Johannes GERSON. De meditatione cordis . Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt 1488. Chancery 4° (199 x 140mm). Collation: a-e 8 f 6 (a1r Imitatio Christi , f3v colophon, f4r De meditatione cordis , f6v blank). 46 leaves. 40 lines and headline, double column. Woodcut white-vine initials opening each book, the first coloured, lombard initials, paragraph marks in red. (Some headlines slightly trimmed.) 19th-century vellum, stamped in gilt and blind. The Imitatio Christi is here attributed erroneously to Gerson. HC(+Add) *9094; BMC II, 382 (IA. 6676); Goff I-16; Polain(B) 4452.