Der doten dantz mit figuren clage und antwort schon von allen staten der welt.

Accession number:

PML 20684

Uniform title:

Dance of Death. German.

Published:

[Heidelberg] : [Heinrich Knoblochtzer], [not after 1488]

Description:

[22] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 28 x 19 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r): Der doten dantz mit figuren clage und antwort schon von allen staten der welt.
Printed in types 1:180G and 3:92G.
Collation: [1⁶ 2-5⁴]: 22 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Also recorded as [Heidelberg: Printer of the Vocabularius, about 1488] and [Ulm: Johann Zainer?], and [Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach, about 1495]. BMC (II 519) tentatively identified the printer, designated by Proctor the Printer of the Vocabularius, with Johann Zainer. Assigned to Heidelberg by Amelung (Frühdruck I pp.23-24). Reichling assigned to Mainz.
Checklist assigns to Heinrich Knoblochtzer in Heidelberg.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 18.5 cm.
PML copy with repairs to edges of leaves.

Binding:

Modern quarter green goatskin, with linen sides.

Variant Title:

Totentanz

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: No rubrication required; woodcuts not colored. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Jacques Rosenthal, possible provenance (note by Belle Greene on front fly leaf); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 427 to Quaritch for Morgan, with collation note (preserved on rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Woodcuts

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Cloth bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books