Tractatus b[r]euis ac valde vtilis , [approximately 1490]
- Title(s):
- Tractatus b[r]euis ac valde vtilis / de arte et [s]cientia bene mo[r]iendi.
- Additional Title(s):
Tractatus breuis ac valde vtilis /
Ars moriendi. (Latin), 1490.- Published/Created:
- [Lyon?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1490]
- Physical Description:
- [40] pages : illustrations, 19 cm (4to.)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0592Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17253502
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- The enlarged text, beginning (leaf [1] verso): [C]Um de pñtis [s]eculi mi[s]eria mo[r]tis trã[s]it⁹ [p]pt' mo[r]ein- / di [sic] mperitiã [sic] ... / ...
The illustrations comprise 12 full-page woodcuts signed: I.D., 11 with xylographic captions. The cut on leaf 20 (verso) consists of the words: Ars / mori / endi / with one printed line below it: Cum o[r]ationibus pulcherrimis dicendis circa agonizantem.
Leaf [20] recto: ... Hec de arte moriendi dicta [s]u[ss]iciant.
Gothic type (Proctor 8700A); 36-37 lines. With initial spaces and signature marks; without catchwords and foliation.
Signatures: A-B⁶, C⁸.
Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum, p. 31
Dutuit, E. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, I, 59
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 2605
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0592: Imperfect: three leaves only. Includes leaf [20], with xylographic title, and two leaves with deathbed scenes ("Temptatis dyaboli de avaricia" and "Bona inspiratio angeli contra avariciam"). With minor hand-coloring. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink. - Subject Terms:
- Incunabula in Yale Library.Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
- Form/Genre:
- Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Hand coloring. - Export:
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