La grant danse macabre des ho[m]mes [et] des fe[m]mes hystoriee [et] augme[n]tee de beaulx ditz en latin. / Le debat du coprs et de lame. La complainte de lame damnee. Exhortation de bien vivre et bien mourir. La vie du maulvais antechrist. Les quinze signes. Le iugement.

Accession number

PML 19320

Published

Imprimee a Troyes : par Nicolas le rouge, Lan Mil ccccc. xxviii. le xi iour de Juing [11 June 1528].

Credit line

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.

Notes

Imprint from colophon (leaf k4r): Imprimee a Troyes par Nicolas le rouge demourant en la gra[n]t rue a lenseigne de Venise Aupres la belle croix Lan Mil ccccc.xxviii.le.x.iour de Juing.
Title printed in red and black.
Signatures: a-k⁴
65 woodcuts. Those on the first 34 leaves (58 cuts) from the Marchant incunable editions.

Description

[40] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 27.5 x 20 cm. (folio)

Provenance

Unidetified shelfmark: B.L.N. 3662 (leaf a1r); Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871); his sale, 9 May 1867, lot 617 for 1560 fr.; Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, 15 Nov. 1911, lot 1983; Bernard Quaritch, collation statement by F.S. Ferguson, 26 June 1912; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Quaritch, July 1912.

Binding

19th-century gilt-tooled dark blue morocco.

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La grant danse macabre des ho[m]mes [et] des fe[m]mes hystoriee [et] augme[n]tee de beaulx ditz en latin. / Le debat du coprs et de lame. La complainte de lame damnee. Exhortation de bien vivre et bien mourir. La vie du maulvais antechrist. Les quinze signes. Le iugement.