MS. Laud Misc. 26

Summary Catalogue no.: 509

Thomas à Kempis, Liber de imitatione ihesu cristi (printed book ([Lübeck], 1485]), with added illumination)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 182:

Border.

Initial.

Binding

Contemporary German binding, blind-tooled calf.

History

Origin: 1485; illumination, 15th century, end ; German

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 67

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 25

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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