Ars memorandi notabilis p[er] / figuras ewangelistaru[m].
[Southern Germany (Nuremberg ?) ,
ca. 1475-1480 ?]
Title from incipt on leaf [1] verso.
Imprints from BN cat. des incun. AA-6.
Blockbook, xylographic edition.
Edition III, probably produced in Bavaria, Upper Germany, about 1470, according to Schreiber's chronology: see Schreiber IV, pp. 137-138.
Illustrations and text printed on one side only of 15 sheets of Chancery paper from 30 single-page blocks.
15 openings with text on the left and full-page woodcut illustrations on the right.
Designed as an aid to memorizing the Gospels by means of metaphorical symbols.
Signatures: a-p². Signatures printed at the end of text on the verso of each opening and within the frame. Mistaken signatures: conjoint leaves [3]-[4] signed c, and conjoint leaves [5]-[6] signed b.
Collation: [1-15]².
Ars memorandi, in Latin, incipit "Ars memorandi notabilis p[er] / figuras ewangelistaru[m] hic / ex post desc[ri]ptam quam dili/gens lector diligenter legat", leaf [1]v, explicit "De resurrec[ti]o[n]e [Christ]i [et] ei[us] ma[n]ifes/tac[i]o[n]e p[ost] r[e]surr[e]c[ti]o[n]e [et] app[ar]ic[i]o[n]e i[n] emaus.", leaf [29]v.
BN cat. des incun.,
Oates
Schreiber, Manuel
Bible.
Bible.
Death
Block books
Wood-engraving
Germany.