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Alphabetum divini amoris.

Accession number
PML 210
Object title

Alphabetum divini amoris.

Published

Memmingen : Albrecht Kunne, 1489.

Description

(4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
The text, of unknown authorship, is variously ascribed in editions to Johannes Gerson, Thomas à Kempis, Johannes Nider or Nikolaus Kempf. See D. Martin, The Writings of Nikolaus Kempf of Strassburg, in Die Kartäuser in Österreich, Bd 1, Salzburg, 1980, 127-54, esp. p.154 (BSB-Ink, CIBN).
Checklist: "JPM 210."
Checklist author name form: Gerson.
Binding
Modern full calf, by Riviere.
Provenance
From the Richard Bennett collection; Pierpont Morgan.
Classification
Century
Department