Speculu[m] doctrinale Vincentij beluacensis fr[atr]is ordinis p[rae]dicator[um] incipit Et primo p[ro]logus de causa sucepti op[er]is et eius materia.
Vincent,of Beauvais,-1264.
Rusch, Adolph,printer.
Vincent,of Beauvais,-1264.Speculum majus.
Signet Library (Great Britain),donor.StEdNL
[Strassburg] : [The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch)],
[not after 1478]
Title from caption at incipit on leaf [a2] recto.
Distinguishable from Rusch's other edition of this work by the word 'a[m]bulet' in last line on leaf [ee]7 recto and other variants, for which see M.L. Polain, 'Notes pour la collection des deux tirages de l'édition du Speculum doctrinale, s. ind. typ [Strasbourg, Adolphe Rusch]', in Bok- och bibliotekshistoriska studier tillägnade Isak Collijn, Uppsala, 1925, pp. 111-20.
Dated between 1477 and 11 February 1478 by Torchet 933 (see below).
Part of the author's Speculum maius.
Text in two columns.
Spaces left blank for initials.
Signatures: [a¹⁰ b⁶; c-g⁸ h¹⁰; i-o⁸; p-x⁸ y⁶; z⁸ A-E⁸ F⁶; G-M⁸ N-O⁶ P⁸; Q-U⁸ X¹⁰; Y-Z⁸ aa-ee⁸]. First and last leaves, [a1] and [ee]8, and leaf [b6] recto blank.
Vincentius Bellovacensis. Prologus, [a2]-[a5]v; [Tables of contents], [a5]v-[b5]v; Vincentius Bellovacensis. Speculum doctrinale, Books 1-18, [c1]r-[ee7]r, each book preceeded by a table of contents.
BM 15th cent.,
BN cat. des incun.,
Goff
GW
ISTC
Klebs
Oates
L. Torchet, Louis, Catalogues régionaux des incunables des Bibliothèques publiques de France, vol. V, Bibliothèques de la Région des Pays de la Loire, Bordeaux, 1987,
Donated to the Library by the Signet Library 3 November 1965.
Single unbound leaf in a portfolio.
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