Tractatus de arte bene vivendi beneq[ue] moriendi.

Accession number:

PML 129786.1

Uniform title:

Ars moriendi.

Published:

Impressus Parisii : per Guidonem mercatoris, Anno d[omi]ni millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo nonagesimo quarto die vero ultima mensis Julii [31 July 1494].

Description:

[44] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 15 cm. (8vo)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2006.

Notes:

Title from title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf F3v: De arte bene vivendi beneq[ue] moriendi tractatus finit feliciter. Impressus parisii in campo gaillardi per Guidonem mercatoris. Anno d[omi]ni millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo nonagesimo quarto die vero ultima mensis Julii. Laus deo.
Printed in Marchant's types 3:105/106G (signatures), 4:76G, and 5:180G.
Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴: 44 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
3 woodcuts.
Sometimes attributed to Matthaeus de Cracovia or to Albertus Magnus (and in Italian editions to Dominicus Capranica, Cardinal of Fermo); cf. A. Madre, Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philos. u. Theol. des Mittelalters 40 (1965) p.292-295), and D. Mertens, Iacobus Carthusiensis (Göttingen, 1976) p.181.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14.2 x 9.4 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary French blind-stamped calf over thin wooden boards (15 x 10 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; repaired. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; yellow edges. 2 clasps, missing.

Variant Title:

De arte bene vivendi beneque moriendi

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, bookplate (front pastedown); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Bruce McKittrick on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, Oct. 2006.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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