ID: 901001337 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001337	Record Type: Literature

	Ars Moriendi (instructional literature, 1415 and 1450)

Note: Latin text, in two iterations, dating from about 1415 and 1450, that offers advice on the protocols and procedures of a good death, explaining how to "die well" according to Christian precepts of the late Middle Ages. As an early printed book, it enjoyed great popularity.

Display Date: 1415 and 1450

Names:

	Ars Moriendi (instructional literature, 1415 and 1450) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Ars Moriendi (instructional literature, 1415 and 1450) (Latin-P,D)
	Art of Dying (instructional literature, 1415 and 1450) (English,U)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Scientific, Instructional, Encyclopedia> (P)
		............Ars Moriendi (instructional literature, 1415 and 1450) (P)

Other Relationships:

	topic is .... death
	.....(personal life events, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... instructional literature (moral guidance works)
	.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Ars Moriendi (instructional literature, 1415 and 1450)
	................National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
	Art of Dying (instructional literature, 1415 and 1450)
	................National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)

Iconography Record Sources:

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