Speculum peregrinarvm qvestionvm.

Accession number: 
PML 129904
Author: 
Sibylla, Bartholomaeus.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : Bene perspectum & emendatum opera & expensis circumspecti viri Ioannis Grüninger ciuis Argentin[ensis], Millesimu[m] quadringentesimu[m] nonagesimo nono. 14. Kalendas Septembres [19 August 1499]
Description: 
[10], CCLIIII [i.e. CCLIII], [1] leaves (with mistakes) : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 2007.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf LL7v: Speculum peregrinaru[m] questionu[m]: Bartholomei Sybille Monopolitani: sacre pagine p[ro]fessoris. ... Bene perspectum & emendatum opera & expensis circumspecti viri Ioannis Grüninger ciuis Argentin[ensis]. Ad laude[m] Dei & legentiu[m] vtilitatem: co[n]summatu[m]: finit. Anno Christiane salutis post Millesimu[m] quadringentesimu[m] nonagesimo nono. 14. Kalendas Septembres.
Printed in Grüninger's types 15:64G, 17:145G, 19:280G, 22:89R, and 34:100R.
Signatures: A⁶ B⁴; C-Z AA-GG⁸ HH⁶ II-LL⁸: 264 leaves, leaf LL8 blank. Leaf D5 missigned as Diiij; leaf E3 missigned as Diij.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Incipit has extracted title (leaf C1 recto): In animaru[m] rationalium in coniunctio & separataru[m] bonorum & malorum demonum tres decades.
Illustrated t.p. (woodcut); initial; guide-letters; spaces for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.8 x 14 cm.

Binding: 
16th-century wooden boards (21 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports; rebacked in gilt-tooled calf. Printed waste pastedowns (from Reformacion der Kayserlichen Stat Nuremberg (Nuremberg: Hieronymus Holtzel, 1503); VD 16 N 2026); yellow edges. 1 clasp, missing. Manuscript titles on top board and bottom edge, with shelfmark: 123 on top edge.
Variant Title: 

Speculum peregrinarum questionum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (only to leaf DD5). Woodcut hand colored in pale washes. Annotations: 15th/16th-century marginal notations, subject headlines, and extensive notes derived from Petrus d'Alliaco (front and rear pastedowns, leaves A1v and LL8).

Provenance: 
Unidentified owner, extensive annotations; Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534-1598), signature: "Ioachim Ioach. F. Camerario" (leaf A1r); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 2007.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Waste (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books