Das Büchlin vo[n] dem sterbenden Me[n]schen
Contributors: Gerardus, de Vliederhoven, active 14th century; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Anton Sorg
Published: 1482
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Eschatology
Work titles: Büchlein von dem sterbenden Menschen
Notes: Title extracted from incipit (leaf [3a]).

A free translation of the Cordiale quattuor novissimorum, often erroneously attributed to Hans Münzinger. Cf. Franz Falk's Die deutschen Sterbebüchlein, 1890, p. 80.

Signatures: [a-m⁸].

LC copy: illus. and large initials hand-colored. Contemporary blind-stamped brown calf over boards, clasp broken.

Rosenwald 91

Goff M-870

Hain 11628

Schramm, IV, p. 33, 51, and illus. 574-578

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