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Ad sanctissimum et b[eatissimum] patre[m] et d[ominum] d[ominum] Paulu[m] ii p[ontificem] m[aximum], liber i[n]cipit dictus speculu[m] vite humane ....

Accession number
PML 25326
Creator
Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo, 1404-1470.
Object title

Ad sanctissimum et b[eatissimum] patre[m] et d[ominum] d[ominum] Paulu[m] ii p[ontificem] m[aximum], liber i[n]cipit dictus speculu[m] vite humane ....

Published

[Toulouse] : [Johannes Parix], [about 1480]

Description

[136] leaves ; 29 cm (fol. and 4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf a2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Parix's type 3:111R.
Collation: [1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4⁶ 5-17⁸]: 136 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio and royal quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20 cm.
Binding
19th-century (German?) full-brown calf, blind-tooled in a pastiche of an earlier style, over beveled wooden boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked (and renewed endleaves?) by Duprez Lahey. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Speculum vitae humanae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, underlining, clover-marks, and manicules sporadically throughout text. Contempoary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, mostly trimmed. Unidentified French bibliographic description (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Jacques Rosenthal, Feb. 1928.
Classification
Century
Department