(1494). THOMAS À KEMPIS. OPERA. EPISTOLAE ET ALIA OPUSCULA. - Lot 20

(1494). THOMAS À KEMPIS. OPERA. EPISTOLAE ET ALIA OPUSCULA. Nuremberg, Caspar Hochfeder, November 29, 1494. Small gothic folio of 184 leaves, wooden boards covered with cold-stamped brown calf, author's name stamped at the top of the first board, lily-decorated corners and copper clasps (period binding). Remarkable and rare 2-column Gothic printing of the complete works of Thomas A Kempis, preceded by a printed protest against the attribution of this book to Gerson. This collection opens with the Imitatio Christi, followed by Gerson's De Meditatione Cordis with all the author's opuscules and treatises, plus letters exchanged with his uncle Georges Pirckheimer and Pierre Danhauser. Beautifully preserved in its original binding, it bears the handwritten inscription of the convent of Saint Mang, founded in the 9th century, and a few marginal handwritten annotations. Small paper losses and holes at the bottom of the title, small worm work to the last 2 leaves, restorations to the hinges and top cover (ISTC, it00352000) (Hain-Copinger no. 9769).