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death10
christian life1
confession (prayer)1
dance of death1
eschatology1
immortality1
judaism1
judgment day1
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Drexel, Jeremias (1581-1638)2
Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)2
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)1
Cecil Betsalel Roth1
Cecil, Thomas1
Cecil, Thomas (1630-)1
Clichtove, Josse (1543)1
Colman, Walter (1645)1
Erasmus, Desiderius1
Kahal Kadosh Talmud Torah Sefaradim (Venice, Italy). Hevrat Bikur Holim1

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Aeternitatis prodromus mortis nuntius

Drexel, Jeremias (1581-1638)

1633

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Manchester al mondo : contemplatio mortis, & immortalitatis

Manchester, Henry Montagu Earl of (1563?-1642)

1636

Attributed to Henry Montagu by STC (2nd ed.) and NUC pre-1956 imprints. Signatures: A-I¹² (I12 is blank).

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The historie of life and death : with observations naturall and experimentall for the prolonging of life

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)

1638

Added engraved t.p. Signatures: A (A1+engr. t.p.) B-O¹² P⁶.

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De la mort

Sherlock, William (1641?-1707); Mazel, David (fl. 1670-1696)

1696

"Du jugement dernier", second sequence of pagination, has separate title -page.

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Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum

Erasmus, Desiderius (1536); Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)

1685

Wing (2nd ed.) E3200.

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Shefer Diḳduḳah shel nefesh : refuʼot teʻalah : le-haʻalot lah arukhah u-marpe bi-khenafeha : be-seder ʻelyon ṿidui li-shekhiv me-raʻ : ṿe-taḥanunim le-daber la-rash de-takif leh ʻalma ṭova

Yosef ben Yaʻaḳov ha-Kohen; Roth, Cecil (1899-1970); Ḳahal ḳadosh Talmud Torah Sefaradim (Venice, Italy). Ḥevrat biḳur ḥolim

445 [1684 or 1685]

Prayer for the sick and liturgical rite to be recited at the bed of a dying person. Title page partially vocalized. "Nidpas le-vaḳashat nedive yosher Ḥevrat bikur ḥolim shebe-ḳ.ḳ. Talmud...

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La dance machabre or Death's duell

Colman, Walter (1645); Cecil, Thomas (fl. 1630)

[1632?]

W.C. = Walter Colman. In verse. The title page is engraved and signed: T. Cecill (Johnson, "Engraved and etched English title-pages", 19). Publication date conjectured by STC. Preliminaries (7...

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Des. Erasmi Roterodami liber cum primis pius, De praeparatione ad mortem, nunc primum & conscriptus & aeditus : Accedunt aliquot epistolae seriis de rebus, in quibus item nihil est no[n] novum ac recens

Erasmus, Desiderius (1536); More, Thomas Sir, Saint (1478-1535)

1534

Signatures: a-x4. Printer's device on the title page; verso of final leaf. Colophon: Basileae in officina Frobeniana per Hieronymum, et Nicolaum Episcopium anno M D XXXIIII. First edition. Woo...

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De doctrina moriendi opusculum, necessaria ad mortem foeliciter oppetendam pr[a]eparamenta declarans : & quo modo in eius agone variis antiqui hostis insultibus sit resistendum, edocens

Clichtove, Josse (1543)

1520

Author's name from caption title: per Judocum Clichtoveum - fol. 5r. Full date from colophon. Signatures: a-l 8. Woodcut of a Death's head on t.p. and recto of last leaf. Includes bibliographi...

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