Thomae Á Kempis; [Thomas A Kempis]. De Imitatione Christi, Libri Quatour. Jesu Christo Messiae, Christiani Hominis Duci Etc. Dicati. Cum Licentia. Gerundae [Girona]: Ex Typ. Narcissi Oliva in Plateau Caulium, (1762). [11694]
Full vellum, tight, end paper hinges partly open front and back, 13.5 x 7.3 cm (5 1/4 x 2 7/8 inches). Woodcut frontispiece & 26 woodcuts in the text. [2], x., 396 clean pp., text very good, last few leaves unopened at top. Very good. Hardcover.
Date taken from final Imprimatur. Published in the Spanish city of Girona.
Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), "A pious writer of great celebrity. Born at Kemp, in the diocese of Cologne...Studied at Daventer. Entered the monastery of Regular Canons of Mount St. Agnes, near Zwol, 1399." - Darling, Cyclopedia Bibliographica.
"He copied the Bible no less than four times, one of the copies being preserved at Darmstadt in five volumes. He was widely read in the Bible's teachings, and his works abound with biblical quotations, especially from the New Testament. Thomas belonged to the school of mystics who were scattered along the Rhine from Switzerland to Strasburg and Cologne, and in the Netherlands. He was especially influenced by Geert Groote and Florentius Radewijns, the founders of the Brethren of the Common Life." - New World Encyclopedia, online.
A very good 18th century pocket-sized copy of this classic Christian devotional work.
