Speculum sapiencie Beati Cirilli Episcopi, alias, Quadripartitus apologieticus [sic] vocatus : in cuius quidem prouerbijs omnis et tocius sapiencie speculum claret.

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Wenssler's type 1:121G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁶(6+1: In secundus rebus factus) 5-7⁸]: 61 leaves. Another issue collates [a-c¹⁰ d-g⁶·¹⁰]: 62 leaves and includes numerous minor textual variants. Cf. BM 15th cent. (IB. 37057).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 34 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
Attributed in this ed. (as in all mss. and early eds.) to a Cyrillus Episcopus, variously identified with Saint Cyrillus, Bishop of Jerusalem; Saint Cyrillus of Thessalonica; or Cyrillus de Quidenon. Cf. J.G.T. Grässe's Die beiden ältesten lateinischen Fabeldichtungen des Mittelalters, 1880, p. 285-290. GW enters under Pseudo-Cyrillus. Attributed by T. Kaeppelli in Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, 1970, #699, to Boniohannes de Messana.
The Speculum sapientiae is a collection of 95 Latin prose fables that appeared in the first half of the 14th cent.; handed down in more than 150 Latin manuscripts. Cf. Sebastian Münster, Spiegel der wyssheit, c1996, p. 9.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20 cm.