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Speculu[m] artis bene moriendi de temptationib[us], penis infernalib[us], interrogationib[us] agonisantiu[m], et varijs o[rati]onibus pro illo[rum] salute faciendis.
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Ars moriendi (Version beginning: Cum de praesentiis exilii miseria mortis ...)
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--Meditations.
- Death.
- Death--Religious aspects--Early works to 1800.
- Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
- Catholic Church.
- Death--Religious aspects.
- Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Genre:
- Meditations.
- Incunabula.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Goff title: Ars moriendi : (Text beginning: Cum de praesentiis exilii miseria mortis transitus ...)
- Text begins: Cum de p[rese]ntis exilij miseria mortis tra[n]situs ...
- Fingerprint:
- fede eva* s-si Ordn (C) 1493 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- [Cologne] : [Heinrich Quentell], [about 1493]
- Notes:
- Other Latin editions with the same text are ascribed to Matthaeus de Cracovia and to Albertus Magnus, but the Italian translations of this text are ascribed to Domenico Capranica. Cf. ISTC.
- Imprint supplied from ISTC.
- Signatures: A⁶ B⁴ C⁶.
- Chancery quarto. Leaf A4r: 36 lines; area of text: 143 x 88 mm. Initial spaces; a few spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. One woodcut ("Accipies" device of Heinrich Quentell) on title leaf (101 x 90 mm.), depicting a master at a desk on which lies an open book, with two pupils, also holding books, seated below the desk; above the figures is a banderole which reads: Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancti.
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 205 x 145 mm.
- Rubrication: initials, underlines, paragraph marks, and capital strokes of section headings supplied in red.
- Penn Libraries copy has a few ms. marginal notes and corrections to text supplied by a reader.
- From the library of Henry Charles Lea. With his bookplate affixed to front pastedown and his autograph (1876) on title leaf.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in modern paper; all leaves mended at inner margin.
- Cited in:
- Goff A-1097
- BM 15th cent. I, 282 (IA.4873)
- GW 2608
- BSB-Ink. A-765
- BN cat. des incun. A-596
- ISTC ia01097000
- OCLC:
- 261955327
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