Spiegel menschlicher behaltnuβ.

Accession number:

PML 141

Uniform title:

Speculum humanae salvationis. German.

Published:

Augsburg : Anton Sorg, 9 August 1476.

Description:

[162] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Das erst capitel/ von lucifers val. Hie vahet an ein spiegel menschlicher behaltnuβ...
Colophon (leaf [18]/9v): Hye enndet sich das bůchlein genannt der me[n]schen spiegel. mit einer hübschen auβlesung des Pater nosters. unnd mit dem Passion. Das hat getrückt und volenndet Anthonius Sort zů Augspurg An sant Laure[n]tzen abent Anno d[omi]ni [etc] .M.CCCC. und in dem Sechβundsibentzigisten Jare.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: [1-12¹⁰/⁸ 13⁴ 14¹²; 15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17-18¹⁰]: 162 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [18]/10 blank. Variant collation in GW and BSB-Ink.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Heinrich von St. Gallen's tract on the Passion, incipit (leaf [15]/1r): Hie nach volget ein loblicher Passion / nach dem text der vier ewangelistern...
Also with Johannes Müntzinger, Hübsche ausslegung des Pater nosters (Expositio super oratione dominica [German]).
178 woodcuts and printed initials.
Bearer type visible on leaves [6]/5r, [9]/4v, [10]/1r (wooden spacers), [11]/10v, [12]/5r, [14]/1v, [14]/12r, and [18]/4v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 18 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [18]/10 (blanks).

Binding:

17th-century blind-stamped German pigskin over wooden boards (30.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked. Top board stamped: FG[?]PI, 1621 (Premonstratensians, Ilbenstadt?). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; edges colored red. 2 clasps and 4 corner bosses on each board, wanting.

Variant Title:

Spiegel menschlicher behaltnuss

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (where needed); woodcut initial colored and capital strokes (leaf [1]/2r only). Annotations: Minimal notations in text in several hands, 16th century: illegible inscription in scroll in woodcut (leaf [4]/5r)

Provenance:

Ilbenstadt (Wetterau, Hesse), Premonstratensians, inscription: Bilbiotheca superioris jlbenstadii, 17th century (leaf [1]/2r) and binding, 1621(?); Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown); Kloss sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 4496; William Morris, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith (1834-1896), booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate and price code: rm/-/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books