Opusculu[m] quod speculu[m] a[n]i[ma]e peccatricis inscribitur: incipit feliciter.

Accession number:

PML 27522.1

Published:

[Paris] : per Antonium Cayllaut, [approximately 1483]

Description:

[26] leaves ; 19 cm (4to and 8vo)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1930.

Notes:

Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Printer from colophon, leaf c10r: Speculu[m] anime peccatricis a quoda[m] cartusiense editus, exaratu[m] per Antoniu[m] Cayllaut: finit feliciter. City and date from ISTC.
Printed in Caillaut's type 1:81G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c¹⁰: 26 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto and Royal octavo.
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 2, Bd 4 col.478ff).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.6 x 13.5 cm.

Binding:

Modern gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 2 supports by Charlotte M. Ullman, 1964. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Opusculum quod speculum animae peccatricis inscribitur

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary title inscription: "Speculum a[n]i[m]e pecatricis continens tres codices," leaf a1r.

Provenance:

Guillaume Libri (1803-1869); his sale, Sotheby's, part 5, "Reserved and Valuable," 25 July 1862, lot 121 for £9.0.0 to Tross; Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873); his sale, Sotheby's, 28 Feb. 1887, lot 214 for £1.4.0 to Ellis; Thomas Brooke (1830-1908), bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); his sale, Sotheby's, 26 May 1921; E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., cat. 100, no. 26; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, July 1930.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books