Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Meditationes vitae Christi.
Call Number
33.13
Identifier
ark:/88435/nv935732x
Publisher
Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg] : Gintherus Zainer, 1468.
Language
Latin
Date Created
1468
Extent
72 leaves (first leaf blank) ; 28.4 x 20.5 cm. (Chancery fol.)
Provenance
WHS copy formerly owned by Court Library at Donaueschingen, acquired from Sotheby's London.
References
Sotheby's London. Incunabula Donaueschingen, 65
Goff B-893
GW 4739
Hain *3557
Proctor 1520 (6 Augsburg 1-1)
Pellechet 2700
Brit. Mus., v. 2, p. 315 (IB. 5402)
Donau. Inc. 101
Distelbrink 166
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Formerly attributed to St. Bonaventure, now attributed to Johannes de Caulibus.
Signatures: 1¹⁰,2-4⁸,5-7¹⁰,8⁸.
WHS copy lacks blank first leaf.
WHS copy rubricated with initials in red or blue with contrasting red or blue penwork decoration, a few large initials with brushwork and penwork extensions, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red; occasional underlining in ink.
Binding Note
WHS copy in nineteenth-century glazed white paper boards, printed spine label.

Discovery Information

Subject
Incunabula—Germany

Physical Characteristics

File Count
150

Institutional Information

Collection
In Principio: Europe's First Printers, 1450-1470
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6eb9c760-18ca-45ef-953a-58e36ba463d5/manifest