Incipit speculu[m] naturale Vincentij beluace[n]s[is] fratris ordinis p[re]dicatorum.

Accession number: 
PML 18249-50
Author: 
Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : [The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch)], [not after 15 June 1476]
Description: 
[370, 328] leaves ; 49 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Notes: 

Title from caption, part I, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit speculu[m] naturale Vincentij beluace[n]s[is] fratris ordinis p[re]dicatorum.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch) type 2:100G.
A copy at Stuttgart LB has the rubricator's date 15 June 1476 (noted in P. Amelung, Katalog der Inkunabeln der Stadtbücherei Reutlingen, 1976, no.97).
In 2 parts.
Collation, part I: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14-19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21-29¹⁰ 30-31⁸ 32-37¹⁰]: 370 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; part II: [1⁸ 2-14¹⁰ 15⁶ 16⁸ 17-32¹⁰ 33-34⁸]: 328 leaves, leaf [34]/8 blank.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 46.8 x 33.2 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: part I, leaf [1]/1 and part II, leaf [34]/8 (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: 

Incipit speculum naturale Vincentij Beluacensis fratris ordinis predicatorum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks (wedge- and P-shaped), headlines (vol. 1 only), and capital strokes; primary initials with negative decoration in letterform (and penwork decoration, vol. 1 only) (perhaps Lower Rhine). 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 (based on shared provenance for PML 18246-51); 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 (Speculum historiale, vol. 2, front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Leo Olschki, Aug. 1908.
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