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    • Title:Ars vitae contemplativae.
    • Published/Created:[Nuremberg] : [Friedrich Creussner], 1473.
    • Physical Description:[32] leaves : woodcuts ; 28 cm. (fol.)

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      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
        Request for use in the YCBA Study Room

      • Call Number: Leaf Collection no. 0087
      • Status:No information available 
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC Leaf Collection no. 0087: Imperfect: leaf [3] only, with xylographically printed text. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
    • Notes:Leaves [1-4] and [31-32], with text and illustrations, are printed xylographically.
    • Summary:Hybrid block book. This copy is illustrated with two leaves of images and text printed in block-book format. The xylographic illustrations contain 12 vignettes depicting lessons from the bible colored by contemporary hand.
    • Format:Book
    • Contents:Ars & modus conte[m]platiue vite. -- Modus meditandi in generali. -- Ars memoratiua. -- Ars siue mod[us] p[rae]dica[n]di a Sancto Thoma de Aquino [com]posita, necno[n] alio[rum] sacro[rum] docto[rum] scripturis p[er]lustrata. -- Modus formandi arborem.
    • References:Incunabula short title catalogue, ia01140000
      Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 46
      Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-1140
      Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 1822
      Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 2672
      Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3365
    • Subjects:Meditation--Early works to 1800.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Incunabula in Yale Library.
      Werther, Frederick, 1881---Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Block books.
      Incunabula.
      Woodcuts.
      Fragments (object portions)
    • Also listed under:Creussner, Friedrich, active 1472-1499, printer.
      Germany--Nuremberg.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17104986