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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Lart et science de bie[n] viure [et] bien mourir.

Accession number
PML 552
Published
Imprime a Paris : par Anthoine Caillault demoura[n]t audit Paris en la rue Sainct Jacques a lenseigne de la couppe dor, [about 1505].
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Continuation of title: Avecques les peines denfer les ioyes de paradis/ Le gra[n]t iugement/ Et plusieurs aultres belles hystoires deuocieuses et contemplatiues.
Xylographic initial L beginning title.
Imprint from colophon, leaf eee3v.
Signatures: a-e⁶ f⁴; aa-ff⁶ gg⁴; aaa-ddd⁶ eee⁴: 102 leaves, leaves f4 and e4 blank.
There are several sets of woodcuts and repeats, that of the author writing appearing five times; the eleven occurring from aa4b to cc3a being copied from the blockbook Ars moriendi.
Description
[102] leaves : 59 woodcuts ; 26.5 x 19 cm (folio)
Provenance
Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), price code: M.ATRO/B.P. (rear endleaf 3 recto), Katalog 7, Litterarische Seltenheiten, Bibliothekswerke (Dec. 1896), no. 392 (repeated: Catalogue 42, Incunabula typographica (1900), no. 145), for 2500 marks, to Pickering & Chatto; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto), No. 247, purchased 28 Dec. 1896; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Binding
19th century, French gilt-tooled dark blue morocco, with gilt-tooled red morocco doublure by Chambolle-Duru.
Classification
Department