Accession number:
PML 213
Uniform title:
Ars moriendi (Version beginning: Quamvis secundum philosophum tertio Ethicorum).
Published:
[Leipzig] : [Conrad Kachelofen], [approximately 1495]
Description:
[14] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Kachelofen's types 2:160G and 7:97G.
Signatures: A⁸ B⁶: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
14 full-page woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 13.4 cm.
PML copy with leaf A8 misbound before A2.
Binding:
19th-century (English?) gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (21 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Ars moriendi, ex variis scriptuarum sentenciis collecta cum figuris
Provenance:
Burggriesbach (Bavaria), inscription, 16th century (leaf A1r); Honniberg (unidentified), purchase inscription from Sylvester Johann Krine OSA: "Emptus Honnibergae anno 1611 25 Octobris a R.P. Fratre Sylvestro Joanne Krine(?) Ordinis Eremitarum D. Aurelj Augustini Episcopi Hipponensis et Eccl[es]iae Doctoris [illegible]. EE III" (leaf A1r); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 177, 8/5/96 and price code: os/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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