Ars morie[n]di
Subtitle: ex varijs scripturaru[m] sententijs collecta cu[m] figuris, ad resistendu[m] in mortis agone dyabolice sugestioni vale[n]s, cuilibet christifideli utilis ac multum necessaria
Publisher: [Conrad Kachelofen]
Published: 1495
Place of publication: Leipzig]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Dance of death
Other titles: Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Ars moriendi
Notes: Title from A1 recto.

Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue. According to the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, the Prague copy has the rubricator's date 1498

Signatures: Áı B́œ.

Chancery quarto; A4 verso: 33 lines plus headline, 159 (164) x 92 mm; types: 340 (first line of title), 168 (lines 2-6 of title), 97 (text); initial spaces without guide letters, 14 woodcut illustrations.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A1118

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 2577

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia01118000

cataloged 20190731 jm

condition reviewed 20190910 cl

COPY NOTE: (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.174 foliated 168-181 in a modern hand in upper right margins. Beginning on A2 verso, paginated 4-28, in pencil, in the lower margins. Leaf dimensions: 209 x 144 mm.

PROVENANCE: (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.174 with dealers' prices and codes at front and back. Purchased in November, 1959.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.174 bound in modern maroon goatskin. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase.