Ad Sanctissimum et Beatissimum Dominum, Dominum Paulum Secundum Pontificem Maximum liber incipit dictus Speculum humane vite
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Type of record: Book
Title: Ad Sanctissimum et Beatissimum Dominum, Dominum Paulum Secundum Pontificem Maximum liber incipit dictus Speculum humane vite
Other titles: Speculum vitae humanae; Speculum humanae vitae; Speculum humane vite
Classmark: BC Incunabula ROD
Creator(s): Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo Bp (1404-1470)
Additional creator(s): Crantz, Martin (1469-1478) (Printer); Gering, Ulrich (1510) (Printer); Friburger, Michael (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: per Martinu[m] Crantz. Vdalricu[m] gering. et Michaelem friburger; Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger
Publication city: Impressum Parisius [Paris]
Date(s): Anno d[omi]ni.M.cccc.lxxv. die prima mensis Augusti. [1 August 1475]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 140 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/96803
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008143429705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a-g¹⁰ h⁶ i-n¹⁰ o¹² p⁴].
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on [o11v] (leaf [137v]) reads: Impressum Parisius anno d[omi]ni.M.cccc.lxxv. die prima mensis Augusti: per Martinu[m] Crantz. Vdalricu[m] gering. et Michaelem friburger. Laus Deo.
Printed with 32 long lines to a full page.
Includes an alphabetical table of contents.
The leaves are unsigned and unnumbered.
The first leaf and one other are blank.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ir00223000.
Indexed in: Goff R223.
Features
Marginal annotations in black ink manuscript on leaves [10r] and [10v].
Occasional underlinings in black ink manuscript.
The major initial S on leaf [10r] has been supplied in brown in the form of an interlaced serpent biting its own body surrounded with pen ornamentation in red. The initial also contains a small shield containing three creatures, probably porpoises.
Other major initials supplied and decorated in red with the first initial in red and blue.
Paragraph markers supplied in red and blue and underlinings in red.
Capital strokes supplied in yellow.
The first blank leaf is missing. This copy is also missing 8 leaves, i.e. leaves [32-39].
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of full brown goatskin over pasteboard by Leighton of Brewer St. whose name is stamped at the bottom of the front pastedown. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of multiple fillets containing small stylised flowers. The large central panel is blind-tooled with a grid of 77 squares with dragons and lions in alternate squares. At the joint with the spine are five blind-tooled leaves aligned with the raised bands. The spine has five raised bands which are blind-tooled with diagonal hatching. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Speculum humane vite. Gold-tooled in the third panel is the name: Rodericus Amorensis. Gold-tooled in the fifth panel are the place and date: Parisius 1475. The remaining three panels are blind-tooled with stylised flowers. The board edges are gold-tooled with a design of diagonal hatching and fillets. The turn-ins are blind-tooled with triple fillets and the book has gilt edges. Size: 280 x 207mm. Leaf size: 272 x 195mm.
Provenance
Ownership inscriptions at the head and foot of leaf [2r] have been rubbed out and are now indistinct.
Written in black ink manuscript at the head of leaf [10r] is a name: Pierre [...] escolia.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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