Ars bene moriendi
Subtitle: reproduction photographique de l'edition xylographique du XVe siècle
By: notice par Benjamin Pifteau
Publisher: Delarue, libraire-éditeur 3, rue des Grands-Augustins, 3
Published: 1880
Place of publication: Paris
Language: lat; fre
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: German Block books; Facsimiles; Incunabula
Work titles: Ars moriendi
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.

Signatures of original: [a-m²]

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.

BMC, I, 4. IB. 23

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

Dutuit: Manuel, I, 45, G

Schreiber, IV, 261, IV A