Incipit regist[rum] capitulo[rum] prime p[ar]tis Speculis hystoriali fratris Vincentij de Burgu[n]dia.
Vincent,of Beauvais,-1264.
St. Ulrich und Afra (Benedictine abbey : Augsburg, Germany),printer.
Signet Library (Great Britain),donor.StEdNL
[Augsburg : Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra],
1474.
Title from incipit of part 1.
Imprint from ISTC.
Gothic type; double columns 52 lines per full page; capital spaces.
Signatures: [*¹⁰ a--h¹⁰ i⁸ k--q¹⁰ r⁸ s--v¹⁰ x⁸; y-z¹⁰ &¹⁰ aa--cc¹⁰ dd¹²+¹ ee--I¹⁰ hh¹⁰+¹]; [*⁸+¹ a--n¹⁰ o¹² p--z¹⁰ aa-bb¹⁰ cc¹² dd--gg¹⁰ hh⁸ ii¹⁰]; [*¹⁰ a--f¹⁰ g⁸ h⁶+¹ i--o¹⁰ p¹⁰+¹ q--t¹⁰ v x⁸ y-z¹⁰ &¹⁰ aa--nn¹⁰].
Third part of the encyclopedic Speculum majas. The other two parts are his Speculum doctrinale and Speculum naturale.
Leaf [212b] of pt. 2 ends with the words "Nil deficit" followed by a blank half page; at the end of pt. 2 is the blind impression of all the types used in the volumes.
Initials in green or red. Some rubrication.
Copinger
Proctor
BM 15th cent.,
GW
ISTC
Donated to the Library by the Signet Library 3 November 1965.
Single vellum leaf in a portfolio.
History, Ancient
World history
Middle Ages
Incunabula
Germany Augsburg.