Author's name also recorded as Rodericus Zamorensis.
Title from incipit to tabula, leaf [1]/1r: Incipit repertoriu[m] sive tabula per alphabetu[m] ad facilit[er] recipiedas materias i[n] p[raese]nti libro spec[u]lu[m] vite humane.
Incipit of text, leaf [1]/4r: Ad Sanctissimum et .B. Patrem [et] D.D. Paulum .II. P.M. Liber incipit dictus Speculu[m] Vite humane qui in eo cu[n]cti mortalis in quovis fuerint statu vel officio spprituali [sic] aut temporali speculabuntur cuins [sic] libet artis et vite p[ro]sp[er]a Et adversa ac recta vivendi documenta Editus a Rodorico ep[iscop]o zamroensi postea Calagarritano bispano. E.S. in castro suo Sancti angeli Castellano [et] refere[n]dario, p[ro]logus.
Colophon, leaf [14]/8r: Edidit hoc lingue clarissima norma latine. / Eceelsi ingenii vir Rodoricus opus. / Qui Rome angelica est custos bene fidus in arte[m]. / Sub Pauli veneti nomine pontificis. / Claret in italici zamorensis episcopus ausis. / Eloqui. it superos gloria parta viri. // Hoc beyamus opus pressit Christoforus altum. Immensis titulis estat origo sua. Variant colophon recorded in BMC.
Printed in Beyamus and Glim's type 1:115R.
For dating the books tentatively assigned to Savigliano to 1473-74, see BMC VII p.lxi.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5-7⁸ 8¹²; 9-13¹⁰ 14⁸]: 134 leaves. Quires [1] and [9-14] in quarto, quire [2] is mixed quarto/folio. BMC records only sheets [2]/1-3 in quarto (sheets 4-5 in folio) but PML copy has sheets 1-4 in quarto (sheet 5 is folio).
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto half-sheets
1 column of 34 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.2 cm.
Speculum vitae humanae
Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks (C- and [Gamma]-shaped). Annotations: Many parts of the text gone over in manuscript, due to poor inking/printing. Contemporary/early-16th century notations clustered on a few leaves in first-half of text. Former manuscript title partially visible on bottom edge.