Accession number
PML 128540.6
Object title
Speculu[m] artis bene moriendi de temptat[i]o[n]ibus, penis infernalibus interrogat[i]o[n]ibus agonisantium, et varijs orat[i]o[n]ibus pro illorum salte faciendis.
Uniform title
Ars moriendi.
Published
[Cologne] : [Heinrich Quentell], [about 1495].
Description
[16] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
Notes
Sometimes attributed to Matthaeus de Cracovia or to Albertus Magnus (and in Italian editions to Dominicus Capranica, Cardinal of Fermo); cf. A. Madre, Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philos. u. Theol. des Mittelalters 40 (1965) p.292-295), and D. Mertens, Iacobus Carthusiensis (Göttingen, 1976) p.181.
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Quentell's types 7:80G and 10:155G.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ c⁶: 16 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Accipies woodcut on title page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Quentell's types 7:80G and 10:155G.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ c⁶: 16 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Accipies woodcut on title page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
15th/early 16th-century Salzburg blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (21,5 x 15 cm), sewn on 2 supports by the bindery at the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, Salzburg (EBDB w002790, aka Salzburg St Peter IV, active second-half of the 15th century-1564). 1 clasp. Manuscript title label on top board, with second label, perhaps former shelfmark, missing. Manuscript waste of early liturgical book with heighted neumes as binding reinforcement and quire guards.
Variant title
Speculum artis bene moriendi
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (same as in part 1). Minor red highlighting of woodcut. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified shelfmarks: H.2.83 and I.A.23 (front pastedown); abraded inscription (leaf a1r of Speculum anime); Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. (cited in Goff Supplement); Walter Goldwater (1907-1985), his sale, Swann Galleries, part II, 5 Dec. 1985, lot 121 for $84,000; Helmut N. Friedlaender (1913-2008), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, part I, 23 April 2001, lot 119, to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased (via HP Kraus) on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
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