Speculum humane salvat[i]onis.

Accession number: 
PML 23211.3
Uniform title: 
Speculum humanae salvationis.
Published: 
[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], [1473]
Description: 
[270] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1925.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [10]/10v): Incipit speculum humane salvat[i]onis.
Colophon (leaf [27]/10v): Explicit humaneq[ue] salutis su[m]mula plane a me fratre Johanne tui pater ordinis alme vir b[e]n[e]dicte puto quasi minimo monacho.
Printed with Günther Zainer's type 2:118bG.
Collation: [1-27¹⁰]: 270 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Text in Latin and German.
Edited by Frater Johannes of the monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra of Augsburg; the metrical compendium is addressed to Abbot Johannes von Hohenstein of SS. Ulrich and Afra. A connection with SS. Ulrich and Afra is also only known from a manuscript note in the Fairfax Murray copy (now in Metropolitan Museum) stating that the work was printed at SS. Ulrich and Afra, quoted in full BMC II 338-339.
192 illustrations from 176 woodcuts with repeats.
PML copy is 2 leaves only: [6]/5.6 (folios 55-56) only. Previously used as binder's waste in Aesop, Ulm: Zainer, 1477 (PML 23211.1/ChL476).
PML copy listed under Division A in Checklist.

Binding: 
Previously in: Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (31.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports by the Schwinck-Meister (Wolfgang Schwinck) in Augsburg (EBDB w000333/Kyriss 76), active ca. 1470-1506; repaired by Deborah Evetts, 1969, with former spine preserved at rear pastedown. 1 catch plate, clasp wanting.
Variant Title: 

Speculum humanae salvationis cum speculo S. Mariae Virginis

Provenance: 
Unidentified German state library (probably Meiningen, Stadt- und Kreisbibliothek "Anna Seghers", 19th century), stamp abraded, dulpicate (leaf [1]/1r of PML 23211.1); Paul Graupe (Berlin), Auktion 57, 14 Dec. 1925, lot 23; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Graupe sale via Joseph Baer & Co., 14 Dec. 1925.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Department: 
Printed Books