Sanctissimo ac cleme[n]tissimo in Christo patri domino
Subtitle: domino Paulo Secu[n]do sacrosancte Romane & uniuersalis ecclesie su[m]mo pastori & po[n]tifici maxi[m]o ...
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 16, item 14
Publisher: Konrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz
Published: 1468
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Christian sociology; Catholic Church; Early works to 1800; Government; Theology; Popes; Primacy
Other titles: Ad sanctissimum & b. p[a]tr[e]m & d. d. Paulu[m] ij. p. m. liber i[n]cipit dictus Speculu[m] uite humane ...
Work titles: Speculum vitae humanae
Notes: Title from beginning of text on leaf 1₁r.

Imprint derived from verse colophon on leaf 16₈r.

First edition.

Signatures: [1-6¹⁰ 7⁸ 8¹² 9-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17⁴].

Spaces left on leaves 1₁r and 9₁r for incipits to be added by hand; initial spaces.

Hain-Copinger(+Add), 13939*

Proctor, 3292

Goff, R-214

BM 15th cent., IV, 4 (IB.17105)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ir00214000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1282.

Gift; Harrison D. Horblit; May 1950; 49-1963.

From the library of C. W. Dyson Perrins, with his bookplate and label.

Large initials with white vine stem and floral bud extensions illuminated in gold and colors at beginnings of books 1 and 2; initials elsewhere and paragraph marks added in alternate red and blue; chapter headings added in red at beginning of books 1 and 2.

Headlines (on rectos only), and the incipits on leaves 1₁r and (to book 2) on 9₁r, have been added in red in contemporary ms. (now very faint).

In line 3 of the verse colophon the word "norme" has been altered in MS to read "Rome."

Bound in modern dark orange morocco, gilt, by Leighton; in a full brown morocco case.