Ars Moriendi ex variis scripturum sententiis collecta cum figuris . [Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, ca 1500].
Ars Moriendi ex variis scripturum sententiis collecta cum figuris . [Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, ca 1500]. 4 o (192 x 134 mm). Collation : A 8 B 6 (A1r title, A1v woodcut, A2r woodcut, A2v preface, A3v text). 14 leaves. 3- to 4-line initials and paragraph marks rubricated in red. 14 full-page woodcuts. 19th-century red morocco gilt, sides with gilt border surrounding central arms, edges gilt, by J. Mackenzie (rebacked preserving original backstrip). Provenance : some early marginalia and underlings in red; Edward Cheney or Robert Henry Cheney (arms on binding); acquired from Lathrop C. Harper, 1971. AN EXTREMELY RARE 'ARS MORIENDI' EDITION, illustrated with fourteen fine woodcuts from the same blocks as the Konrad Kachelofen Leipzig editions of the 1490s. This edition dates circa 1500 and was printed by Kachelofen's son-in-law, Melchior Lotter. The Ars moriendi was one of the great texts and themes of medieval life, and its most poetic expression was found in a series of wonderful images created in the mid-15th Century Netherlands. That series, now lost, probably originated as drawings from the school of Rogier van der Weyden It served as models for the famous set of engravings by the Master E.S. for several blockbook editions, and for the typographic editions illustrated by woodcut, which were produced throughout Europe in the late-15th and early-16th centuries. One of these important groups of re-interpretations is the set of woodcuts made for a series of editions printed in Leipzig in the 1490s by Konrad Kachelofen. His complete set consisted of fourteen full-page woodcuts, eleven of which repeat the Master E.S. and blockbook prints; the other three are from other anonymous sources. Kachelofen's series of Ars moriendi cuts was the most widely distributed in the fifteenth century, as he printed at least nine editions himself in Latin or German in the 1490s. His German editions included only thirteen cuts, while the Latin editions included the full suite of fourteen. All of the early editions of the Ars moriendi are of great rarity. A FINE, FRESH COPY OF THIS VERY RARE WORK. ONE OF ONLY 8 RECORDED COPIES, of which five copies are in America, two in the British Isles, and one in the Czech Republic. Bod-inc A-439; GW 2579; Morg(B) 214; Sheppard 2151; Goff A1120. Fact and Fantasy 8.
Ars Moriendi ex variis scripturum sententiis collecta cum figuris . [Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, ca 1500].
Ars Moriendi ex variis scripturum sententiis collecta cum figuris . [Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, ca 1500]. 4 o (192 x 134 mm). Collation : A 8 B 6 (A1r title, A1v woodcut, A2r woodcut, A2v preface, A3v text). 14 leaves. 3- to 4-line initials and paragraph marks rubricated in red. 14 full-page woodcuts. 19th-century red morocco gilt, sides with gilt border surrounding central arms, edges gilt, by J. Mackenzie (rebacked preserving original backstrip). Provenance : some early marginalia and underlings in red; Edward Cheney or Robert Henry Cheney (arms on binding); acquired from Lathrop C. Harper, 1971. AN EXTREMELY RARE 'ARS MORIENDI' EDITION, illustrated with fourteen fine woodcuts from the same blocks as the Konrad Kachelofen Leipzig editions of the 1490s. This edition dates circa 1500 and was printed by Kachelofen's son-in-law, Melchior Lotter. The Ars moriendi was one of the great texts and themes of medieval life, and its most poetic expression was found in a series of wonderful images created in the mid-15th Century Netherlands. That series, now lost, probably originated as drawings from the school of Rogier van der Weyden It served as models for the famous set of engravings by the Master E.S. for several blockbook editions, and for the typographic editions illustrated by woodcut, which were produced throughout Europe in the late-15th and early-16th centuries. One of these important groups of re-interpretations is the set of woodcuts made for a series of editions printed in Leipzig in the 1490s by Konrad Kachelofen. His complete set consisted of fourteen full-page woodcuts, eleven of which repeat the Master E.S. and blockbook prints; the other three are from other anonymous sources. Kachelofen's series of Ars moriendi cuts was the most widely distributed in the fifteenth century, as he printed at least nine editions himself in Latin or German in the 1490s. His German editions included only thirteen cuts, while the Latin editions included the full suite of fourteen. All of the early editions of the Ars moriendi are of great rarity. A FINE, FRESH COPY OF THIS VERY RARE WORK. ONE OF ONLY 8 RECORDED COPIES, of which five copies are in America, two in the British Isles, and one in the Czech Republic. Bod-inc A-439; GW 2579; Morg(B) 214; Sheppard 2151; Goff A1120. Fact and Fantasy 8.
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