A full devoute and gostely treatyse of the Imytacyon and folowynge the blessed lyfe of our moste mercyfull sauyour cryste / compyled in Laten by the right worshypful doctor Mayster John Gerlon ; and translate into Englisshe the yere of owre lorde M.d.ii. by master William Atkynson Doctor of Diuinite ; at the speciall request & comaundement of the full excellent Pryncesse Margarete moder to oure sovenayne lorde Kynge Henry the vii and Countesse of Rychemount and Derby.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, 1443-1509, trans.

Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471, attributed name.

Series:

Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 2.

Standardized Title:

Imitatio Christi. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apologetics--Early works to 1800.

Apologetics.

Christian literature--Early works to 1800.

Christian literature.

Genre:

Devotional literature -- 16th century.

Physical Description:

216 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 8⁰

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Here beginethe the forthe boke

Place of Publication:

[London] : This boke inprinted at londo[n] in fletestrete at the signe of the George by Richard Pynson prynter unto the kynges noble grace, [1502]

Summary:

Exhortations to follow the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Notes:

Date of publication from "Women advising women", part 5, c1450-1720 from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, a listing and guide to the microfilm collection, Adam Matthew Publications, 1998.

Signatures: A-B C-P⁶ Q⁴; A-C⁶.

In eights and sixes.

Traditionally attributed to Thomas a Kempis.

In four parts; two separate registers, but text continuous; Cf. STC 23956.

Place of publication and printer information from colophon.

Filmed copy at Adam Matthew's set reel 2, quire [1] stained and damaged, appears to possibly be a poem; in sequence one, A1, stained affectingtext and right margin; and quire C appears misbound.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Publications ; Oxford, England : Bodleian Photographic Service. 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Women advising women ; pt. 5, reel 2.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN), ESTCS126304.

OCLC:

63661050