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Although the author of Ars moriendi is not known, the book is believed to have been written in Southern Germany at the time of the Council of Constance (1414-1418). with Friar Reginaldette, Is noted for his position as a peritus at the Council of Basel in 1434 A.D..
The title "Speculum finalis retributionis tam bonorum operum quam malorum" wass added by the translator Totani , but the information is taken from the text which follows. The Totani family is from L'Aquila in Italy, and perhaps it was the memory and example of St. Bernadine of Sienna, who had died there nearly a half century earlier, that prompted Friar Guillermo to preserve this work of Franciscan preaching, which is so characteristic of the reform in the Order of the Friars Minor, which the Saint had promoted.
Friar Reginaldette, Is noted for his position as a peritus at the Council of Basel in 1434 A.D..
The title "Speculum finalis retributionis tam bonorum operum quam malorum" wass added by the translator Totani , but the… Read More

London:printed for Thomas Parkhurst, and Thomas Cockerill at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside, and at the Three Legs in the Poultrey1691, 1728. Early calf, recased with later leather spine, leather spine label. Edges moderately worn, small library stamp on front endpaper, title page soiled, edges of text block closely cropped, occasional light spotting. Rogers was educated at Glasgow University, where he matriculated in 1673, and then studied under Edward Veal at Wapping.Rogers began his career in the dissenting ministry as evening lecturer at Crosby Square, Bishopsgate. Some time after 1682 he was struck down by a form of hypochondria, from which he recovered in 1690, and then became assistant to John Shower. Shower was then minister of the Presbyterian congregation in Jewin Street, and moved in 1701 to the Old Jewry Meeting-house.  Rogers's hypochondria returned, and in 1707 he left the ministry .(DNB) Rogers cautions not to blame the devil for this depression: "Do not attribute the… Read More

[Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschla, 1480. First Edition. First edition. - First blank almost loose, with backed tear and torn of corner as well as "Rosarium sup(er) bibliam" in old handwriting, flyleaf with purchase note dated 1908, small water stain on the bottom corner in the first half of the work, slightly soiled and tanned. - Wide margined copy from the Wican Free Public Library (blind stamp and bookplate). - 19th centuy half vellum (slightly scrachted and scuffed). Rubricated and initials supplied in red and blue. ¶ This is one of the earliest printed books on the ars memorativa or mnemotechnics the rare first edition of the Roseum memoriale composed by the German Benedictine monk Petrus of Rosenhaym (Upper Bavaria), written between 1423 and 1426 for Cardinal Giulio Branda di Castiglione. Petrus of Rosenhaym composed numerous treatises, sermons, and verses: the Roseum memoriale is surely his most… Read More