Accession number
PML 187
Object title
Spiegel der menschen behaltnis.
Uniform title
Speculum humanae salvationis. German.
Published
[Speyer] : [Peter Drach], [about 1481]
Description
[7], I-CCXXVIII, [5] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
277 woodcuts from 253 blocks and initials.
BSB-Ink dates to ca. 1480.
Collation: [1⁶; 2-30⁸]: 238 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [30]/5-8 blank.
Explicit (leaf [30]/4r): Deo gratias. [printer's mark]
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.2 x 21 cm
PML copy missing 4 leaves: [1]/1 and [30]/6-8 (blanks).
Printed in Drach's types 2:94G and 6*:120G.
Title from half-title page (leaf [2]/1r): Das ist der spiegel der menschen behaltnis mit den ewangelien und mit epistelen nach der zyt des iars.
Woodcuts formerly attributed to the Housebook Master (Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet).
BSB-Ink dates to ca. 1480.
Collation: [1⁶; 2-30⁸]: 238 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [30]/5-8 blank.
Explicit (leaf [30]/4r): Deo gratias. [printer's mark]
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.2 x 21 cm
PML copy missing 4 leaves: [1]/1 and [30]/6-8 (blanks).
Printed in Drach's types 2:94G and 6*:120G.
Title from half-title page (leaf [2]/1r): Das ist der spiegel der menschen behaltnis mit den ewangelien und mit epistelen nach der zyt des iars.
Woodcuts formerly attributed to the Housebook Master (Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet).
Binding
17th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (31.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports, with arms of Abbot Johann Christoph Guetknecht of Metten (front board) and St. Michael (rear board). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; edges colored red. 2 clasps.
Variant title
Spiegel menschlicher behaltnuss
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (when required; most initials printed). Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Metten (Bavaria), St. Michael, Benedictines, inscription, 15th/16th century: "Iste liber est sancti Michaelis Archangeli patroni in Metn" (leaf [1]/2r) and binding; Munich, Court Library, "Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis" stamp (leaves [1]/2r and [30]/5v); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), price code mt/-/-, VIII/91, and description by Cockerell laid-in (rear pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code sl/-/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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