Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Speculu[m] doctri[n]ale Vincentij beuacensis fr[atr]is ordinis p[re]dicato[rum] incipit. Et primo p[ro]logus de causa suscepti op[er]is et eius materia.
Imprint from ISTC. GW dates as about 1478, BSB-Ink as about 1477.
Printed in The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch) type 2:100G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁶; 3-7⁸ 8¹⁰; 9-14⁸; 15-21⁸ 22⁶; 23-28⁸ 29⁶; 30-35⁸ 36-37⁶ 38⁸; 39-43⁸ 44¹⁰; 45-51⁸]: 404 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [51]/8 blank.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
Distinguishable from Rusch's other edition of this work by 'ambulet' in last line; see M.L. Polain in Bok- och biblioteks-historiska studier tillägnade Isak Collijn (1925) pp.111-120 and note in BMC I, reprint, p.65. For terminus ante quem see BMC I, p.65. BSB-Ink does not record two editions but distinguish between the variant settings A and B, as most of the BSB Munich copies are mixed copies including both variants.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 47.7 x 33.5 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [51]/8 (blanks).
Speculum doctrinale Vincentij beuacensis fratris ordinis predicatorum incipit.
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks (wedge- and P-shaped), and capital strokes; primary initials with negative decoration in letterform. Quires [37-38] and [50-51] from another copy, with red rubrication in a different hand, Roman numeral headlines for books and Arabic foliation. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations sporadically in text, mainly nota bene marks and a few text corrections. Contemporary manuscript Arabic numeral-Roman numeral quire signatures, with center bifolium with a + after the Roman numeral. Same rubrication and marginal notations throughout PML 18246-51.