Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Image Details:
British Book Illustration project 2012-2015
Source Title:
Memento mori remember to die
Source Created or Published:
[1640]
Source Call Number:
STC 17816.5
Digital Image File Name:
3106
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
170356
Hamnet Holdings ID:
148623
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Title (Hamnet):
Memento mori remember to die
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
[London :
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
s.n.,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
1640]
Physical Description (Hamnet):
1 sheet ([1] p.) : obl.1/4⁰.
Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet):
189793. MS. line of verse added: "Man goeth to his long home, and ye manners go about the streets [?]". Disbound, removed from 17th century MS. common place book. Provenance: inscription in common place book: "Chas. [Charles] Shutleworth his book, 1691"
Notes (Hamnet):
Title is xylographic in a woodcut compartment enclosing 6 lines of verse in letterpress: "It is appointed for all men once to dye, therefore think upon eternity. And as I am so must you be, therefore prepare to follow me."
Citations (Hamnet):
ESTC (RLIN) S125495
Citations (Hamnet):
STC (2nd ed.), 17816.5
Subject (Hamnet):
Death -- Early works to 1800.
Call Number (Hamnet):
STC 17816.5

Memento mori remember to die