Ars morie[n]di, ex varijs Scripturaru[m] sente[n]tijs collecta cu[m] figuris, ad resistendum in mortis agone dyabolice sugestio[n]i valens, cuilibet Christifideli vtilis ac multum necessaria

Lotter, Melchior, approximately 1470-1549, printer, Duru, Hippolyte, -1884, binder, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1500 · [Leipzig, Melchior Lotter, after 1500?] · 14 pictures

Ars moriendi, a Latin devotional guide to dying well, printed in Leipzig by Melchior Lotter around 1500 for Christian readers facing the devil's temptations at death. The woodcuts show deathbed scenes with angels, demons, Christ on the cross and scrolls of text, cut in a bold, angular black-line style a designer could borrow for medieval-revival graphics.

Death · Early works to 1800 · Germany · Incunabula · Leipzig

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