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Book/Printed Material Deuotissime Meditationes de vita beneficiis : et passio[n]e saluatoris Jesu Chr[st]i cu[m] gratiaru[m] actione

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Title

  • Deuotissime Meditationes de vita beneficiis : et passio[n]e saluatoris Jesu Chr[st]i cu[m] gratiaru[m] actione

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Created / Published

  • [Augsburg] : In officina excusoria Sigismu[n]di Grim[m] Medicine Doctoris, ac Marci Wyrsung, Auguste Vindelicor., quinta die Aprillis Anno. &c. DDD.XX [5 April 1520]

Headings

  • -  Jesus Christ--Passion
  • -  Devotional exercises--Early works to 1800
  • -  Germany--Augsburg

Notes

  • -  Imprint from colophon.
  • -  Signatures: A-K⁸ L⁴.
  • -  Title in red within woodcut border.
  • -  35 woodcuts, 26 of which are full-page illustrations with elaborate border designs of children, birds, flowers, etc. Three of the cuts occur twice. The illustrations have been variously attributed to Hans Burgkmair and to a "pseudo-Burgkmair," identified by Röttinger as Hans Weiditz. The entire series was published by G. Hirth, 1887 (2d edition 1903) under title "H. Burgkmair's Leben und Leiden Christi" as vol. XI of his "Liebhaber-Bibliothek alter Illustratoren." Cf. H. Röttinger, Hans Weiditz, 1904, no. 25.
  • -  A German edition of the Meditationes was issued by the same publishers in 1521 under title: Gebet vnd Betrachtungen des Lebens des Mitlers Gotes, vnd des Menschen vnsers Herrens Jesu Christi. Probably the work of which 5 undated editions are described in Hain-Copinger, no. 10991-10995.
  • -  Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), D 1304
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection 646
  • -  Rosenwald Collection (1954 ed.) 459
  • -  LC copy: In full vellum. Illustrations hand-colored. T.p. inscribed, dated 1655.

Medium

  • [168] p. ill. (woodcuts) 17 cm (8vo)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BV4830 .T4 1520
  • BV4830 .T4 1520 Copy 2 16 cm. 35 leaves of ms. prayers and meditations bound in at end. 16th cent. gilt calf binding. Bookplate of C. von Wolkenstein-Rodenegg, dated 1594. Shelved under Rosenwald 646a
  • BV4830 .T4 1520 Copy 3 16 cm. Bound by Lortic. Bookplate of Ambrose Firmin Didot. Shelved under Rosenwald 646b

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 27012421

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Thomas, À Kempis, Author Aut Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Aut, Hans Weiditz, Hans Burgkmair, Siegmund Grimm, Marx Printer Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Prt Wirsung, Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Christoph Von Wolkenstein, Marcelin Lortic, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection Contributor, and Early Printing Collection. Deuotissime Meditationes de vita beneficiis: et passione saluatoris Jesu Chrsti cum gratiarum actione. [Augsburg: In officina excusoria Sigismundi Grimm Medicine Doctoris, ac Marci Wyrsung, Auguste Vindelicor., quinta die Aprillis Anno. &c. DDD.XX 5 April, 1520] Web.. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/27012421/.

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Thomas, À. K., Weiditz, H., Burgkmair, H., Grimm, S., Wirsung, M. P. H. L. G., Firmin-Didot, A. [...] Early Printing Collection. (1520) Deuotissime Meditationes de vita beneficiis: et passione saluatoris Jesu Chrsti cum gratiarum actione. [Augsburg: In officina excusoria Sigismundi Grimm Medicine Doctoris, ac Marci Wyrsung, Auguste Vindelicor., quinta die Aprillis Anno. &c. DDD.XX 5 April] [Web.] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/27012421/.

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Thomas, À Kempis, Author Aut Http://Id.Loc.Gov/Vocabulary/Relators/Aut, et al. Deuotissime Meditationes de vita beneficiis: et passione saluatoris Jesu Chrsti cum gratiarum actione. [Augsburg: In officina excusoria Sigismundi Grimm Medicine Doctoris, ac Marci Wyrsung, Auguste Vindelicor., quinta die Aprillis Anno. &c. DDD.XX 5 April, 1520] Web.. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/27012421/>.