Dit is die prologhe va[n] den spieghel onser behoudenisse.

Accession number: 
PML 657
Uniform title: 
Speculum humanae salvationis. Dutch
Published: 
In die goede stede van Culenburch : by my Johan Veldener, M.CCCC. ende lxxxiij. des saterdaghes post mathei apostoli [27 September 1483].
Description: 
[134] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Printer's mark on half-title page.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r10r: Dit boeck is volmaect in die goede stede van culenburch by my iohan veldener Int iaer ons heren M.CCCC. ende lxxxiij. des saterdaghes post mathei apostoli.
Publication date from ISTC. PML Checklist dates as 25 Sept. 1483.
Printed in Veldener's types 4:89G and 5A:114/115G.
Signatures: a⁴ b-q⁸ r¹⁰: 134 leaves
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts reused from the Netherlandish Prototypography editions of Speculum humanae salvationins (Latin and Dutch editions) of 1460s and 1470s, with those blocks cut in half to fit this format.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.7 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1, replaced in facsimile.

Binding: 
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (21.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, preserving previous front endleaf; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Speghel onser behoudenisse

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials (some unrealized), paragraph marks, and underlining. Annotations: No contemporary marginal notations in text. Later Dutch manuscript bibliographic notes, 17th century (front endleaf 2 recto and r10v).

Provenance: 
Johannes Enschedé (1708-1780), manuscript notations (leaves b1r, m7v, m8v, p5v, q1v, and r10r; see Jos van Heel, "Johannes Enschedé (1708-1780). Een drukker en lettergieter op zoek naar de oorsprong van zijn kunst," Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis 11 (2004), 127-44, his sale, Haarlem, 9 Dec. 1867, lot 4; Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), his sale, Paris, part VI, 10 June 1884, lot 262; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Quarter bindings (Binding)
Century: 
15th century
Department: 
Printed Books