Accession number
PML 77023
Creator
Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo, 1404-1470.
Object title
Spejo dela vida humana.
Published
Çaragoça de Aragon : con industria y costa de Paulo Vrus, xiii de Mayo...Mill.cccc.lxxxxi [13 May 1491].
Description
[124] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. Edwin H. Herzog, 1981.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf q5v: Acaba el excellente libro intitulade Speio dela vida humana. emprentado enla insigne ciudad de çaragoça de Aragon: co[n] industria [y] costa de Paulo vrus de Co[n]stancia: Alaman Fecho: [y] acabado a xiii. de Mayo. Del año de nuestra saluacion. Mill.cccc.lxxxxi. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Hurus's types 2*:134G and 3:100G.
Signatures: a-o⁸ p-q⁶: 124 leaves, leaf q6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Printed initials and 39 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 (half-title page, replaced in facsimile) and q6 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf q5v: Acaba el excellente libro intitulade Speio dela vida humana. emprentado enla insigne ciudad de çaragoça de Aragon: co[n] industria [y] costa de Paulo vrus de Co[n]stancia: Alaman Fecho: [y] acabado a xiii. de Mayo. Del año de nuestra saluacion. Mill.cccc.lxxxxi. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Hurus's types 2*:134G and 3:100G.
Signatures: a-o⁸ p-q⁶: 124 leaves, leaf q6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Printed initials and 39 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 (half-title page, replaced in facsimile) and q6 (blank).
Binding
20th-century Spanish full brown goatskin over paper boards (30.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Brugalla, 1944. Plain vellum pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Early Spanish marginal notations, primarily only in first few quires. Early title inscription: Espexo delavida umana, and unidentified 17th/18th-century inscription perpindicular to text in lower margin (leaf a2r).
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from W. Thomas Taylor as the gift of Mr. Edwin H. Herzog, Jan. 1981.
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