Tractatus de spiritualibus asce[n]sionibus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zerbolt, Gerard, 1367-1398.

Contributor:

Berthold, der Deutsche, -approximately 1350.

David, von Augsburg, -1271.

Prüss, Johann, 1446 or 1447-1510, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De spiritualibus ascensionibus

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Spiritual life--Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Spiritual life.

Spiritual life--Christianity.

Devotional literature--Early works to 1800.

Devotional literature.

Meditations--Early works to 1800.

Meditations.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Bearer impressions (Printing) -- France -- Strasbourg -- 15th century.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Vogel, Christoph (inscription)

Schönfeld, Laurentius von (autograph)

Physical Description:

304 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) : illustrations ; 15 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

e.si papi u.p* itta (C) 1488 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Johann Prüss], [1488-1493?]

Contents:

Tractatus de spiritualibus asce[n]sionibus / [Gerard Zerbolt] ; De q[ua]ttuor in q[ui]bus incipientes [Deo] [ser]uire d[ebe]nt esse cauti si [pro]ficere volu[n]t / [David von Augsburg]

De vita & beneficijs saluatoris Iesu Christi deuotissime meditationes cum gratiarum actione / [Thomas à Kempis]

Horologium deuotionis circa vitam [Christ]i / [Berthold der Deutsche].

Notes:

Contains Gerard Zerbolt's De spiritualibus ascensionibus (leaves [A]1r-N6r), followed by an excerpt from lib. 2 of David of Augsburg's De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione (titled here: De q[ua]ttuor in q[ui]bus incipientes [Deo] [ser]uire d[ebe]nt esse cauti si [pro]ficere volu[n]t; leaves N6r-N8v); Thomas a Kempis's Meditationes de vita et beneficiis salvatoris Jesu Christi (leaves O1r-2D8r); and Berthold der Deutsche's Horologium devotionis circa vitam Christi (leaves [2E]1r-2P7r). "According to the signaturing these three titles were apparently issued together, although they are sometimes found separately or in varied combination."--Goff.

"Tractatus de spiritualibus asce[n]sionibus", "De vita & beneficijs saluatoris Iesu Christi deuotissime meditationes cum gratiarum actione" and "Horologium deuotionis circa vitam [Christ]i" each has special title leaf (with title only) on leaves [A]1r, O1r and [2E]1r, respectively. "De q[ua]ttuor in q[ui]bus incipientes [Deo] [ser]uire d[ebe]nt esse cauti si [pro]ficere volu[n]t" has caption title on leaf N6r.

Imprint from ISTC.

Chancery octavo: Leaf [A]3r: 23 lines; area of text: 91 x 57 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Small woodcut illustration (63 x 35 mm.) on leaf [2E]1v of the crucified Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John; cf. Schreiber 3445, Schramm XX, p. 27. (ISTC and BSB-Ink. record a further woodcut, Schreiber 4037, in Zerbolt's De spiritualibus ascensionibus; BM 15th cent. and GW do not.) Six lines of inked bearer impressions (first six lines of leaf 2C7v, placed upside-down, except for "t" of "torrente") at foot of leaf 2D8r.

Signatures: [A]⁸ B-2D⁸ [2E]⁸ 2F-2P⁸ (leaf 2P8 blank).

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Precordiale deuotorum. Impressum Arg[e]n[toratum] : [Johann Prüss], Anno salutis Mcccclxxxix [1489] (Goff P-952).

Penn Libraries copy contains Gerard Zerbolt's De spiritualibus ascensionibus (leaves [A]1r-N6r), followed by an excerpt from lib. 2 of David of Augsburg's De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione (titled here: De q[ua]ttuor in q[ui]bus incipientes [Deo] [ser]uire d[ebe]nt esse cauti si [pro]ficere volu[n]t; leaves N6r-N8v); Thomas a Kempis's Meditationes de vita et beneficiis salvatoris Jesu Christi (leaves O1r-2D8r); and Berthold der Deutsche's Horologium devotionis circa vitam Christi (leaves [2E]1r-2P7r).

Leaf size: 139 x 91 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: underlines, paragraph marks, capital strokes and most initials supplied in red; 3 initials (1 each on leaves [A]1r, O2r and [2E]2r) supplied in red and blue.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible early dated 16th-century ms. inscription ("[...]R[?] Gloriosus Hieron[i]m[us] :H[...]d[...]as Hmj[?] D[omi]n[us] Christofer[us] Vogel Vratislauie[...] dono dedit 1515 Lypsz in domo d[omi]nj [...] [...]eu[m]"), possibly in more than one hand, recording the gift of this book by Christoph Vogel of Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) in 1515 on front pastedown; early dated 16th-century autograph ("1 5 52 Laurentius á sho[n]ffeldt Shonfeldensis") of Laurentius von Schönfeld in brown ink on verso of title leaf of first work in volume; dated 16th-century autograph ("1548 Laurentius von Schonueld Studiosus Lipsensis") at head of leaf O1r.

Penn Libraries copy: author's name ("Authore Domino Gerhardo Zutphaniensi qui uixit Anno. .1.3.90") supplied in early ms. in brown ink on title leaf; early German ms. transcription of verses from Psalm 83 in brown ink on verso of title leaf; some early ms. underlines, marginal marks and annotations in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full early blind-tooled leather (spine rebacked) over square-edge wooden boards; 1 metal catchplate on left board and evidence of clasp on right board; 3 raised bands on spine.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf 2P8 (blank) wanting.

Cited in:

Goff G-176

BM 15th cent. I, p. 126 (IA.1725)

GW 10688

BSB-Ink. G-126

ISTC ig00176000

Related Work:

David, von Augsburg, -1271. De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. Liber 2.

Contains:

Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471. Orationes et meditationes de vita Christi.

Horologium devotionis circa vitam Christi.

OCLC:

64059211