Specvlvm morale
Contributors: Mentelin, Johann, approximately 1410-1478, printer; Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274, attributed name; Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854, former owner; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: [Johann Mentelin]
Published: 1476
Place of publication: Strassburg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Christian ethics; Early works to 1800; Catholic authors
Other titles: Speculum morale; Liber Speculi moralis; De virginitate.
Notes: Title from leaf [473b]

Text begins (p. [11]): Incipit primvs liber Specvli moralis; with Pars prima. De operibus. Distinct[i]o p[ri]ma at head of page.

Ascribed to Vincent of Beauvais by BM 15th cent., I, p. 58  (IC.552); Goff (rev.), V-288 notes that the authorship is questioned.  Cf. Speculum VIII no. 3 (July, 1933), p. 319, and More books (Nov. 1929), p. 365. The Catholic Encyclopedia suggests that it was drawn largely from St. Thomas Aquinas.

Imprint from Goff (rev.), V-288.

Without the colophon; known with and without colophon Cf. Goff (rev.), V-288.

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Unpaginated; pages [1]-[2], [9]-[10], [953]-[954] blank.

Printed in double columns, 62 lines; capital spaces, without guide letters.

Burke Library copy: Books 1-2 bound in one volume.

Burke Library copy: A manuscript tabula for this work, which appears to have previously been bound with volume 3 of this set, is cataloged separately as UTS Ms. 114.

BM 15th cent., I, p. 58 (IC.552)

Copinger. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium, 6552

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, V-288

Incunabula short title catalogue, iv00288000

Polain.  Cat. Belgique, 3946

Copinger 6252

Proctor, 214

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M50617

Gatch. Van Ess catalog B-4
Table of contents: title: Sequitur tabula breuis alphabetica; title: Primus liber Speculi moralis; title: Liber secundus; title: Tercius liber Speculi moralis; title: De virginitate.