Speculu[m] hystoriale Vincentij beluacensis fratris ordinis p[re]dicatorum incipit.

Accession number:

PML 18247-48

Author:

Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch)], [approximately 1473]

Description:

[156, 176, 175, 192] leaves ; 49 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.

Notes:

Title from caption, part I, leaf [1]/4r: Speculu[m] hystoriale Vincentij beluacensis fratris ordinis p[re]dicatorum incipit.
Imprint from ISTC. GW dates as not after 1478.
Printed in The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch) type 2:100G.
On dating this press see G. Binz in the Gutenberg Festschrift (1925) p.387 and V. Scholderer: Fifty Essays pp.150-155. The copy at München SB has a rubricator's date 1480 (Schorbach 205). Dated about 1473 in CIBN.
In four parts.
Collation, part I: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4-6¹⁰ 7-8⁸ 9-14¹⁰ 15⁸ 16⁶ 17¹⁰]: 156 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; part II: [1⁸ 2-4¹⁰ 5⁶ 6⁸ 7-11¹⁰ 12⁶ 13¹⁰ 14⁸ 15-19¹⁰]: 176 leaves; part III: [1⁸ 2⁶ 3⁸ 4-6¹⁰ 7⁶(+1) 8-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17-19¹⁰]: 175 leaves; part IV: [1-8¹⁰ 9-10⁸ 11-14¹⁰ 15⁶ 16-18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20¹²]: 192 leaves, leaf [20]/12 blank.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
Pell Ms records variants in typesetting of part I and part II, leaves 1a and 4a (see also Ohly-Sack 2963, Oates 105 and IBP 5646).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 47.7 x 33.6 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: part I, leaf [1]/1 and part IV, leaf [20]/12 (blanks).

Binding:

Bound in 2 volumes. 19th-century full black goatskin over heavy paper boards (49 x 36 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Lortic. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Speculum hystoriale Vincentij Beluacensis fratris oridinis predicatorum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks (wedge- and P-shaped), and capital strokes; primary initials with negative decoration in letterform. 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.

Provenance:

Koblenz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Recollect Franciscans, abraded inscription (part I, leaf [1]/1r); Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Paris, part III, 9 June 1881, lot 550 (including all parts of Speculum--naturale, doctrinale, morale, historiale--in 5 vols.); unidentified (not Firmin-Didot) French sale catalogue description, for 10000 fr., glued-in (vol. 2, front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Leo Olschki, Aug. 1908.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books