p5r Gerson, Johannes: [De comparatione vitae contemplativae ad activam.] Gerson, Oeuvres, III no. 92, 63-77.
Imprint:
Gouda: Gerard Leeu, 15 Sept. 1480. 4°.
Collation:
a–p8 q r6.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ig00276000
GW 10833;
HC 7674;
Goff G‑276;
BMC IX 33;
Pr 8922;
Campbell 811; HPT II 417; ILC 1094; Oates 3393; Sheppard 6893-4.
LCN: 14876573
Copies:
G-132(1)
First copy
Wanting m3.6 and the blank leaf r6.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß.
Size: 206 × 147 × 26 mm.
Size of leaf: 196 × 127 mm.
Contemporary manuscript title on a1r: ‘lectiones Gerson.’
On a2r a four-line initial ‘B' is supplied in red, with reserved white decoration and purple pen-work infill and decoration. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital strokes in red.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 1707.
Perhaps the copy purchased, as one of nine volumes of ‘tractatus varii', for £4. 4. 6; see Books Purchased (1835), 11.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.36.
G-132(2)
Second copy
Wanting a8 and the blank leaves a1 and r6.
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) mottled calf; single gold foliate roll on both covers; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 202 × 141 × 24 mm.
Size of leaf: 195 × 125 mm.
Partial rubrication in gatherings a–c only: some initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; some capital strokes and underlining in red.
Provenance: Bruges, Flanders, Jesuits; very faint inscription on a2r: ‘Collegii Societatis Jesu Brugis'.
Perhaps the copy acquired in 1896; see pencil note on a2r: ‘D.14.12.96'; possibly purchsed for Fl. 6 from S. Kende, Heumühlsgasse 3, Vienna, Catalogue (1896), no. 292, ‘Gerson'; catalogue not in the Bodleian; see Library Bills, 5 Aug. 1896.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. N7.1480.1.
