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

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

Ars moriendi "Cum de praesentis exilii miseria mortis transitus" [Italian] Arte del ben morire.

Accession number
PML 320
Object title

Ars moriendi "Cum de praesentis exilii miseria mortis transitus" [Italian] Arte del ben morire.

Uniform title
Ars moriendi (Version beginning: Cum de praesentiis exilii miseria mortis ...).
Published

Venice : [Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein], 1478.

Description

(4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Checklist: "JPM 320."
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.
Binding
Modern Italian vellum.
Variant title
Arte del ben morire
Provenance
From the libraries of William Morris and Richard Bennett; Pierpont Morgan.
Classification
Department