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THOMAS A KEMPIS. Imitatio Christi . Brescia: Jacobus Britannicus, 6 June 1485. Chancery 8° (140 x 98mm). Collation: A 8 a-o 8 (A1 blank, A2r table, A7r prefatory letter, a1r text, o7r colophon, o7v-8 blank). 117 leaves (of 120, without blank leaves A1, A6 and o8). 25 lines. Type: 3:77R. 3- to 5-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, printed guide-letters. (Wormtrack in first quire, some staining.) 20th-century light brown morocco, the sides with blindtooled diapered panel filled with trefoils, spine lettered in gilt, upper fore-edges lettered. Provenance : Parma, monastery of St. John the Evangelist (contemporary inscription struck through); Jacob ?Gallizi (17th-century inscriptions, a few later scribbles; headlines added in a 17th-century hand). [ Bound with :] BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS (St., d.1153), attributed to. Formula honestae vitae . - ARNULPHUS DE LOVANIO (attributed here to St. Bernard). - Speculum monachorum . - AMBROSIUS (St., d.397, attributed to). Epistola [IV (Migne vol. 17, col.749)]: 'Dilecte fili dilige, lacrymas noli differe eas']. [Italy: second half of the 15th century]. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. [1-2 8]. 16 leaves. Titles in red, initial opening each work and capital strokes in red. Seventh edition. This is the only 15th-century edition that attributes the work to Bernardus. Interestingly, it claims to correct the mis-attribution to Jean Gerson. HC(Add) 9087; BMC VII, 974 (IA. 31119); Goff I-9; IGI 5108.