tis00664000

Text-inc Id:

tis00664000

Bod-inc Id:

S-272

Headings:

Speculum Speculum humanae salvationis [German] Spiegel menschlicher behaltnuss.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] [Prologue(?)]. Incipit: ‘[D]ie do uil uolckes underwisent zu gerechtikeit . . .’
2. [a2v] [Alphabetical list of subjects.]
3. [b1r] Spiegel menschlicher behaltnuss. ‘Lutzifers val Lutzifer sprach ich stige uff in den hymmel und wurde glich dem obersten Ysaie am xiiii und Appocalippsis am xii. Das erst capitel'. Incipit: ‘[I]n gottes nammen amen. Hie vohet an ein spiegel der menschlichen behaltnisze . . .’ See VL IX 52-65, at 61 II.B.2.a.
4. [C1r] [Extracts from the Gospels.] ‘Von eime bichtiger das ewangelium schribet sanctus Lucas am. xij. capitel'. Incipit: ‘[I]n der zyt sprach Ihesus zu sinen iungeren . . .’

Imprint:

Basel: Bernhard Richel, 31 Aug. 1476. Folio.

Collation:

[a⁴ b–h¹⁰ i⁶ k–m¹⁰ n¹⁰⁺¹ o–s¹⁰ t v⁶ x⁸⁺¹ y z¹⁰ A¹⁰ B¹⁰⁺¹ C²] + 1 (register). Woodcuts and woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00664000 HC *14936; Goff S‑664; BMC III 737; Pr 7530; BSB‑Ink S‑511; CIBN S‑350; Oates 2754; Sack, Freiburg, 3266; Schramm XXI p. 25; Schreiber V 5274; Sheppard 2372. LCN: 14122416

Copies:

1. S-272(1) First copy Without the leaf containing the register described by H. Gathering [C] is bound after the first gathering. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over pasteboards covered in red paper. Sprinkled yellow- and green-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size: 393 × 295 × 63 mm. Size of leaf: 383 × 153 mm. Late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century manuscript bibliographical information in brown ink on a rectangular paper label pasted on the front endleaf. On [a1r] sixteenth-century manuscript entries relating to the family of Ziegler of Landshut, in brown ink. Early manuscript foliation in large roman numerals in red ink: I–CCXXI. The woodcuts are painted in several colours. Initials are supplied in red or blue; capital strokes in red. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate; purchased in 1829 from John Cochran for £21. 0. 0; see A Catalogue of Manuscripts in Different Languages . . . Now selling by John Cochran (London, 1829), no. 557, and note in pencil on first front endleaf: ‘Mr. Cochrane's Catalogue No. 557 £21. 0. 0.’ Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 277.
2. S-272(2) Second copy Fragments. Two woodcuts, one from [l3r], the other from [o5v], both now inserted between o3v and o4r of S‑271 (see above). Bound with S‑271; see there for details of binding. Provenance: George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough (1766-1840). Algernon Perkins (fl. 1865)(?). Francis Douce (1757-1834); note, in Douce's hand, tipped in behind the woodcuts: ‘Laire wrong in making these different from my Lyons edition. These 2 are from the vol that had 4 in a page formerly L^d Blandford's, now M^r Perkins's. They were duplicates'. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 288*.