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Arbor artis memorie [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.87
Published
[Lyons? : Pierre Mareschal and Barnabé Chaussard?, between 1495 and 1500?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Woodcut possibly issued as an illustration for a Lyons edition of Ars memorativa by Publicius, or Baldovinus Sabaudiensis's Incipit ars memorie venerabilis Baldouini Sobodiensis medice artis doctoris eximij, probably sometime between 1495 and 1500.
Mounted as item 87 in an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : woodcut ; image: 370 x 211 mm; sheet: 390 x 242 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Schematic diagram in the form of a "tree of memory".
Classification
Department