Ars moriendi.
Published: 1470
Place of publication: [Germany
Language: lat
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Death -- Early works to 1800.; Block books -- Specimens.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Specimens.
Notes: Block book.

Printed in black ink on one side of leaves only, so that pairs of printed and blank pages alternately face each other.

LC copy has inserted: leaf 18 (sig. s) of the Biblia pauperum, Nördlingen, 1470 (block book with German text; cf. Schreiber, IV, p. 93, 98, col. 1) and 2 late impressions from early wood blocks (one being a copy of the illus. on leaf 3 from another ed. of the Ars moriendi). Provenance: A.A. Renouard (bookplate).

Schreiber, W.L.  Handbuch (3. Aufl.), IV, p. 261, 267-312 (ed. IV A)

BM 15th cent., I, p. 4 (IB.23) (leaves printed on both sides)

Rosenwald 20

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