Ars bene moriendi : reproduction photographique de l'edition xylographique du XVe siècle / notice par Benjamin Pifteau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pifteau, Benjamin, 1836-1890.

Standardized Title:

Ars moriendi.

Language:

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

Block books, German--Facsimiles.

Block books, German.

Incunabula--Facsimiles.

Incunabula.

Genre:

Facsimiles.

Physical Description:

xi pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : facsimiles ; 33 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : Delarue, libraire-éditeur 3, rue des Grands-Augustins, 3, [1880?-1889?]

Notes:

Signatures of original: [a-m2]

Reproduction from the original in the Bibliotheque nationale, Paris (verso of l. 1 wrongly reproduced as recto)

Title vignette.

The illustrations of the original comprise 11 full-page woodcuts with xylographic captions, each cut within triple-line border, shaded above and at right, except on l. 132 and 172 (double-line border) and l. 92, 192, 212 and 232 (unshaded)

Typographical description of original: Block-book, printed in Germany ca. 1470. Text in Gothic lettering; 30 lines (l. 61) Printed in black ink on one side of leaf on opposite pages. With ornamental initials; without catchwords, foliation and signature marks. Each page of text within triple-line border, shaded above and at right, except l. 141 (double-line border) and l. 81, 101, 121, 221 and 241 (unshaded)

Introduction in French; text in Latin.

Added t.-p.

Cited in:

BMC, I, 4. IB. 23

Sotheby: Principia typographica, II, [14]-17

Dutuit: Manuel, I, 45, G

Schreiber, IV, 261, IV A

OCLC:

21933993