Speculum hoc ebdomadale
Publisher: Peter Drach
Published: 1480
Place of publication: Speyer
Language: lat
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Christian life; Early works to 1800; Christian ethics
Work titles: Speculum aureum animae peccatricis
Notes: Title from colophon.

Imprint from ISTC.

On leaf A1r: Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas. dicit Ec]lesiasti]c[u]s. Q[ua]m vt ait egregius doctor b[ea]tus Gregorius.

Colophon, leaf C8r: Speculum hoc ebdomadale per Capitula septe[m] s[e]c[un]d[u]m septem ferias Ebdomade distinctu[m] Ad salutem anime legenti p[er]utile. Finit feliciter

Leaf A2 unsigned; A3 signed A2; leaf B2 unsigned; B3 signed B2. ; leaf C2 unsigned; C3 signed C2.

Sheppard, Sajó-Soltész and GW date about 1490; dated about 1480 in Goff

Signatures: A-C⁸.

Printed in a single column, 36 lines per full page. Spaces with guide letters left for capitals.

Colophon, leaf [24a]: Speculum hoc ebdomadale per Capitula septe[m] s[e]c[un]d[u]m septem ferias Ebdomade distinctu[m] Ad salutem anime legenti putile. Finit feliciter.

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).

Gothic script.

Sajó, G. and Soltész, E. Catalogus incunabulorum quae in bibliothecis publicis Hungariae asservantur, 1815

Sheppard, L.A. Catalogue of XVth century books in the Bodleian Library, 1727

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 14921

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-641

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 2385

Incunabula short title catalogue, is00641000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 13865

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, S-256