Title and imprint from colophon ([44]/7r): "Speculi aurei decem p[re]ceptor[um] dei fratris Henrici herp ordinis minor[um] de observa[n]tia opus preclarum in nobili urbe Magu[n]cia ... p[er] honorabile[m] viru[m] Petrum schoyffer de Gernsheym feliciter est consu[m]matu[m] Anno dominice incarnacio[n]is Millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo quarto. mensis septembris Idus quarto."
Printed in Schoeffer's types 3:91G and 6:92G.
Collation: [1¹² 2-10¹⁰ 11⁸ 12⁴; 13-16¹⁰ 17⁴; 18-21¹⁰ 22⁶⁽⁵⁺¹⁾; 23-26¹⁰ 27⁶; 28-36¹⁰ 37⁶ 38⁴⁽³⁺¹⁾ 39-42¹⁰ 43-44⁸]: 408 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [44]/8 blank.
Variant collation, cf. BMC I 30 and Polain 1864.
Paper format: Median folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.8 x 24 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [44]/8 (blanks). Some staining around edges; a few wormholes.
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining; flourishing of initial on leaf [2]/1r has faded/been washed away. Some lombards have interior white decoration. Annotations: Two sets of manuscript alpha-numerical signatures in the bottom right corner, some slightly trimmed, and the quires are numbered in the bottom center margin on the first rectos.