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Les images de la mort, avx quelles sont adioustées douze figures : davantage, la medecine de l'ame, la consolation des malades, vn sermon de mortalité, par sainct Cyprian, vn sermon de patience, par sainct Iehan Chrysostome.

Accession number
PML 196064
Creator
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543.
Published
A Lyon : A l'escu de Cologne, chez Iehan Frellon, 1547.
Credit line
B. H. Breslauer Foundation,
Description
[208] p. : woodcuts ; 15 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A-N⁸.
Printer's mark on t.-p.
Pages [5-57] are woodcuts by Holbein with French captions & French quatrains ascribed to Jean de Vauzelles or Gilles Corrozet; the cut on p. [40] is signed by the block cutter, Hans Lützelburger.
First p
Binding
Gilt-tooled black morocco for Pieter Spiering, with the classmark 126 on the spine and the title Dooden dans v: H:H: along with the date 1637 on the front cover. Other Spiering 1637 bindings are described in Jan G. Van Gelder and Ingrid Jost, Jan de Bissc
Provenance
Presentation inscription to Guillaume Glorian dated 17 July 1681 and wax seal of the Fabrique G. Glorian. Cipher AB dated 1850 and inscription "s[anc]tae Genovefae 1735" on title-page.
Classification
Century
Department