Aureum speculum anime peccatricis docens p[ec]c[a]ta[m] vitare ostende[n]do viam salutis.

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Accession number: 
PML 128540.1
Author: 
Jacobus, de Gruytrode, active 1440-1475.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Heinrich Quentell], [about 1494].
Description: 
[24] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
Notes: 

Sometimes falsely attributed to Dionysius Carthusiensis, the Speculum is now attributed either to Jacobus de Gruytrode (cf. Bloomfield) or to Jacobus de Clusa (cf. L. Meier, Die Werke des Erfurter Karthäusers Jakob von Jüterbog, Münster, 1955) (CIBN). Jacobus de Clusa also recorded as Jacobus de Jüterbog or de Paradiso (Verfasserlexikon 2nd ed., IV: col. 478ff).
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Quentell's types 7:80G and 10:155G.
Signatures: a-d⁶: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Accipies woodcut on title page.
Bearer type and a large block visible beneath explicit, leaf d4r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.

Binding: 
15th/early 16th-century Salzburg blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (21,5 x 15 cm), sewn on 2 supports by the bindery at the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, Salzburg (EBDB w002790, aka Salzburg St Peter IV, active second-half of the 15th century-1564). 1 clasp. Manuscript title label on top board, with second label, perhaps former shelfmark, missing. Manuscript waste of early liturgical book with heighted neumes as binding reinforcement and quire guards.
Variant Title: 

Speculum animae peccatricis

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (same as in part 6). Minor red highlighting of woodcut. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified shelfmarks: H.2.83 and I.A.23 (front pastedown); abraded inscription (leaf a1r of Speculum anime); Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. (cited in Goff Supplement); Walter Goldwater (1907-1985), his sale, Swann Galleries, part II, 5 Dec. 1985, lot 121 for $84,000; Helmut N. Friedlaender (1913-2008), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, part I, 23 April 2001, lot 119, to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased (via HP Kraus) on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Genres: 
Pigskin bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books