Thomas à Kempis : his age and book . t utilis compositusa domino Johani Gersem cancellario pariensis deImitatione Christi et contemptu omnium vanitatis(5-/^)mundi. It is interesting to notice that three of thesesix manuscripts attribute the work to Gerson. TheBurney manuscript {circa 1419) calls the author L lev. 4 tsc^mic\tK>n«2 vpt i\ cotcmptii oTnniuniliAnimhurjmndi- Clplni-p. * :^r i£ c^Kit- -Inf. Kcc (uf lib\ Kpl.^Viii anioncrntir cji Litinulci^iitiim 4 inctxi iTninrrTmi;^- fi udiTTiij/uctaatcr-tlliruinr^ cmn pzacatc orrdj Aibctnn. Siiniii^ i^t^c^iii^fnFmiir ht mt^^Vu x^i
Thomas à Kempis : his age and book . t utilis compositusa domino Johani Gersem cancellario pariensis deImitatione Christi et contemptu omnium vanitatis(5-/^)mundi. It is interesting to notice that three of thesesix manuscripts attribute the work to Gerson. TheBurney manuscript {circa 1419) calls the author L lev. 4 tsc^mic\tK>n«2 vpt i\ cotcmptii oTnniuniliAnimhurjmndi- Clplni-p. * :^r i£ c^Kit- -Inf. Kcc (uf lib\ Kpl.^Viii anioncrntir cji Litinulci^iitiim 4 inctxi iTninrrTmi;^- fi udiTTiij/uctaatcr-tlliruinr^ cmn pzacatc orrdj Aibctnn. Siiniii^ i^t^c^iii^fnFmiir ht mt^^Vu x^i ;cctrrn4 t picrn^crrrm-xriccnv prcadltr.^ q/ptriMi; ; iV>i :^corni9ita?Tnn1ti ex ^cqTirt aiidihitriiAns^Ufpariiii^iicfidcrui Knn ilir. o ^ rpm xp no hiir. Q_i ii ani- iiwlt- i-ptcTie ^fApic^c >pi I ktHix inh?lliJrt- tit- fofJi^ iiita^iiia^ illi ^itrciproc^dhtib,«\ltn n*. mnitate di/p II tare Ti <(j^mTtil»fciti? iiTi<jic d t^plicc BRITAK i. END OF INDEX OF CHAPTERS OF THE FIRST BOOK AND PART OFTHE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE TREATISE DEIMITATIONE CHRISTI FROM THE HARLEY MS. 3223 (BRITISH MUSEUM) THIS COXTAINS THE FOUR liOOKS, ANU IS DATED 1478. THE DATE IS FOLLOWED HVTHE WOKDS ex KLORETO ; REFERRING TO THE SCRIBE. OR TO THE VERSES WHICH FOLLOW. SOME MANUSCRIPTS AND EDITIONS 117 Dominus John Geersem, Chancellor of Paris ; theAdditional Manuscript (circa 1465) calls him simplyChancellor of Paris ; while the Harleian manuscript(1478) calls him Dominus John Gersem, Chancellorof Paris. No manuscript refers in any way toThomas a Kempis if we except the modern oralmost modern attribution on the Harleian manu-script numbered 3216. It should be noticed thatGerson is spelt Gersem and Geersem in this manu-script, and this spelling is associated with theChancellor of Paris. This alone entirely disposesof the attribution of the work to the imaginary JohnGersen of Vercelli. The bulk of t
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