Thomas à Kempis

De Imitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi

De Imitatione Christi et de contemptu mundi

Venice: Johannes Leoviller ; Franciscus de Madiis, 1486.

Other editions:
Thomas a Kempis. Imitatio Christi. Libro de remedar á Christo e del menosprecio de todas las vanidades del mundo; Johannes Gerson. De Meditatione cordis. Pensamiento del coraçon. Burgos (Spain), Friedrich Biel, 1495. The number of counted editions exceeds 2.000 , and 1.000 different editions are preserved in the British Museum. The Bullingen collection, donated to the city of Cologne in 1838, contained at the time 400 different editions. They exist, at least, 545 Latin and about 900 French editions. The earliest German translation was made in 1434 by J. de Bellorivo and is preserved in Cologne. The editions in German began at Augsburg in 1486. The first English translation (1502) was by William Atkinson and Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, who did the fourth book. Translations appeared in Italian (Venice, 1488; Milan 1489), Spanish (Seville, 1536), Arabic (Rome, 1663), Armenian (Rome, 1674), Hebrew (Frankfort, 1837), and other languages.



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Edited by: Michele Bosco


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