Incipit speculum historiale fratris Vincencii.

Accession number: 
PML 1116-19
Author: 
Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : Johann Mentelin, Millesimoquadringentesimoseptaugesimotercio. Quarta. Die. Decembris [4 December 1473].
Description: 
[170, 206, 202, 214] leaves ; 47 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, part I, leaf [1]/4r.
Imprint from colophon, part IV, leaf [21]/7v: Explicit. Speculum. Historiale. Fratris. Vincencii. Ordinis. Predicatorum. Impressum. per. Iohannem. Mentelin. Anno. Domini. Millesimoquadringentesimoseptaugesimotercio. Quarta. Die. Decembris.
Printed in Mentelin's type 8:107G.
In four parts: I-III) [undated]; IV) 4 Dec. 1473.
Collation, part I: [1-17¹⁰]: 170 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [17]/10 blank; part II: [1-19¹⁰ 20-21⁸]: 206 leaves, leaves [21]/7-8 blank; part III: [1-19¹⁰ 20¹²]: 202 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; part IV: [1-17¹⁰ 18⁸ 19¹⁰ 20-21⁸]: 214 leaves, leaf [21]/8 blank. BMC with variant collation: part III, [9]⁸(+2).
Paper format: Imperial folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions (all volumes): 46.2 x 31.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: part IV, leaf [21]/8 (blank).

Binding: 
18th-century French full calf over paper boards (47 x 33 cm), sewn on 6 supports, with gilt tooled spine with crowned heraldic emblems of a diamond and ermine (Soubise). Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; red edges.
Variant Title: 

Speculum historiale

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Bruges illumination and rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, headlines, and paragraph marks; primary initials illuminated with floral decoration with flora/foliate borders. Annotations: Minimal contemporary notations in part III only. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, mostly visible in parts III-IV.

Provenance: 
Jean Budé (1425-1500/01), illuminated armorial (part I, leaf [1]/4r; part II, leaf [1]/4r; part III, leaf [1]/2r; part IV, leaf [1]/1r) and inscription: "Hic liber est Johannis budei Regis consiliarii francieque audienciarii actus anno m cccc iiii xx vi iiii decembris. Bude," 4 Dec. 1486 (part I, leaf [17]/9v; part II, leaf [21]/6v; part III, leaf [20]/12r; part IV, leaf [21]/7v), through inheritance: Nicolas de La Chesnaye (ca. 1439-1507), inscription: "Est N de la Chesnaye" (part I, leaf [1]/1r; part II, leaf [1]/1r; part III, leaf [1]/2r; part IV, leaf [1]/1r), who was married to Jean's daughter Etiennette (1457-1532); Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), signature: Jac. Aug. Thuanus (part II, leaf [1]/1r; part III, leaf [1]/2r; part IV, leaf [1]/1r); Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715-1787), armorial binding, his sale, Paris, Jan. 1789, lot 6061; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), inscription: "Coll: Perf: Acheson 1837" (part I, front endleaf 2 recto); James Toovey (1814-1893), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books