Accession number
PML 27522.1
Object title
Opusculu[m] quod speculu[m] a[n]i[ma]e peccatricis inscribitur: incipit feliciter.
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.
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.
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