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Contemporary full parchment binding with handwritten title on the spine, overall well preserved. Blank endpapers (manuscript ex-libris erased). Red sprayed cuts.
PP.: XXXIX, (I), 226, (IV). COMPLETE, with a beautiful portrait of Gersen outside the text.
Copy with papers in overall good/very good condition.
Rare work on the presumed author of the famous "Imitation of Jesus Christ".
Giovanni Gersen, born as Giovanni da Cavaglià (1243 – ...), was a monk and abbot of the Benedictine order. 67546495
