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tia01098000

Text-inc Id:
tia01098000
Bod-inc Id:
A-449
Headings:
Ars Moriendi Ars moriendi ‘Cum de praesentis exilii miseria mortis transitus . . .' with title: Speculum artis bene moriendi.
Analysis of content:
  1. a2r ‘Speculum artis bene moriendi perutilis.’ [Also known as Ars moriendi.] Incipit: ‘[C]um de presentis exilii miseria mortis transitus propter moriendi imperitiam multis non solum laicis . . .’ See A‑444.
Imprint:
[Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, c.1495]. 4°.
Collation:
a6 b4 c6. Woodcut on a1r; see BMC I 270, woodcut A.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia01098000 GW 2610; HC *14911; Goff A‑1098; BMC I 294; Pr 1425; BSB‑Ink A‑766; CIBN A‑598; O'Connor, Art of Dying, 134; Sack, Freiburg, 306; Schramm VIII 23; Schreiber V 3671; Sheppard 1051; Voulliéme, Köln, 305. LCN: 13980510
Copies:
  1. A-449(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century German(?) mottled brown pasteboards. Size: 190 × 148 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 185 × 132 mm. Marginal annotations in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand. Three- to six-line initials are supplied in red. Capital strokes and some underlining in red. Provenance: Badly damaged armorial book-plate. Purchased on 4 May 1886 from Henry Cecil Sotheran for £0. 10. 0, with £0. 3. 0 postage; see Catalogue no. 255, Catalogue of Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern, in All Classes of Literature . . ., 30 Apr. 1886, p. 3, and Library Bills (1886). SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 6.69.