Accession number
PML 129
Object title
Speculum humane salvat[i]onis.
Uniform title
Speculum humanae salvationis.
Published
[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], [1473]
Description
[270] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [10]/10v): Incipit speculum humane salvat[i]onis.
Colophon (leaf [27]/10v): Explicit humaneq[ue] salutis su[m]mula plane a me fratre Johanne tui pater ordinis alme vir b[e]n[e]dicte puto quasi minimo monacho.
Printed with Günther Zainer's type 2:118bG.
Collation: [1-27¹⁰]: 270 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Text in Latin and German.
Edited by Frater Johannes of the monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra of Augsburg; the metrical compendium is addressed to Abbot Johannes von Hohenstein of SS. Ulrich and Afra. A connection with SS. Ulrich and Afra is also only known from a manuscript note in the Fairfax Murray copy (now in Metropolitan Museum) stating that the work was printed at SS. Ulrich and Afra, quoted in full BMC II 338-339.
192 illustrations from 176 woodcuts with repeats.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.7 x 21 cm. Quire [1] is slightly smaller: 31 x 21 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [1]/1 (blank). Pages washed, tears repaired.
PML copy listed under Division A in Checklist.
Colophon (leaf [27]/10v): Explicit humaneq[ue] salutis su[m]mula plane a me fratre Johanne tui pater ordinis alme vir b[e]n[e]dicte puto quasi minimo monacho.
Printed with Günther Zainer's type 2:118bG.
Collation: [1-27¹⁰]: 270 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Text in Latin and German.
Edited by Frater Johannes of the monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra of Augsburg; the metrical compendium is addressed to Abbot Johannes von Hohenstein of SS. Ulrich and Afra. A connection with SS. Ulrich and Afra is also only known from a manuscript note in the Fairfax Murray copy (now in Metropolitan Museum) stating that the work was printed at SS. Ulrich and Afra, quoted in full BMC II 338-339.
192 illustrations from 176 woodcuts with repeats.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.7 x 21 cm. Quire [1] is slightly smaller: 31 x 21 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [1]/1 (blank). Pages washed, tears repaired.
PML copy listed under Division A in Checklist.
Binding
Modern half pigskin over wooden boards covered in wood grain paper (32.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; edges stained red.
Variant title
Speculum humanae salvationis cum speculo S. Mariae Virginis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, printed initials filled in in red, red capital strokes, paragraph marks, and underlining with running headlines denoting chapter number (quires [1]-[5] only). Annotations: Alpha-numeric manuscript quire sigantures, mostly washed and trimmed. Each German paragraph has "Tutsch" written beside it in a contemporary hand.
Provenance
Giovanni Battista de Bearzi (see pasted-in note on rear fly leaf); his sale, Edwin Tross (Paris), 31 May 1855, Pt. 1, lot 1578, sold for £1 2s; note by H. Bone on other copies of this work in Spencer catalogue and Willet's sale, late 19th century (note pasted-in on rear fly leaf); unidentified stamp: E with circular frame (1 cm.); William Morris (1834-1896); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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