Spec[u]lu[m] vite humane.

Accession number: 
PML 25125
Author: 
Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo, 1404-1470.
Published: 
[Savigliano] : Hoc beyamus opus pressit Christoforus altum [and Johannes Glim], [approximately 1473-1474]
Description: 
[134] leaves ; 29.5 cm. (fol. & 4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1927.
Notes: 

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.

Binding: 
18th-century Italian stiff vellum over paper boards (29.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports with gilt armorial of Turinetti di Priero. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Speculum vitae humanae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

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.

Provenance: 
Unidentified Italian inscription: "Speculu[m] vitte humane Giovanni di [abraded]," 15th/16th century (leaf [1]/1r), also with repair to bottom center of this leaf, likely removal of armorial or inscription; Ercole III Turinetti di Priero (1717-1781), armorial binding; George John Spencer (1758-1834) 2nd earl Spencer, acquisition no.: 13202 (crossed out) d[uplicate] (front endleaf 1 verso), not in Spencer duplicate sale, Evans, 2 March 1821; Bernard Quaritch, cat. 221, no. 204; Wilhelm Richter (1853?-1919?, ex-info Huntington Library), Bibliotheca Richteriana bookplate (front pastedown), acquisition inscription: "[abraded] London, Mai 1906," probably from Quaritch (rear fly leaf verso), most of collection sold to Huntington Library via A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1924; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L'Art Ancien, Dec. 1927.
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