Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated from HPT. Goff dates to about 1473.
Printed in Ketelaer and de Leempt's type 1:122G.
Collation, in 8 parts: [I: 1⁸; II: 2-9¹⁰; III: 10-11⁶; IV: 12⁸; V: 13-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸; VI: 17-18¹⁰; VII: 19-21¹⁰ 22⁸; VIII: 23¹⁰ 24⁸]: 256 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank. Order derived from printed register, quire [1].
Paper format: Chancery folio.
On the authorship of the various texts cf P.E. Puyol, L'auteur du livre De Imitatione Christi (Paris, 1899) pp.553-56 (CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.3 x 19.6 cm.
PML copy bound: parts I, II, VII, III, VIII, IV, VI, V, following original manuscript signatures.
Opera: Sermones, epistolae et alia opuscula
Hand decoration: Contemporary Dutch rubrication, major initials in blue with red penwork decoration and yellow wash, with red minor initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript alphabetic signatures (a, aa, aaa, etc. = a1, a2, a3, etc.). Extensive modern bibliographic notes in 2 Latin hands and by J.B. Inglis (front endleaf 2r-v), addition tipped-in leaf with notes by Inglis, foliation, and some cross-references added to text by Inglis.