Speculum naturale Vincentij beluacensis fratris ordinis predicatoru[m].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264.

Contributor:

Printer of the Legenda aurea, printer.

Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513, printer.

Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Printed Binding Waste Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Printed waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Weigel, Oswald (stamp)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (320 unnumbered leaves (leaves [1] and 20 unnumbered pages); 282 unnumbered leaves (leaves [1] and 282 unnumbered pages)) ; 38 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Speculum naturale Vincentii Belvacensis fratris Ordinis Praedicatorum

Goff title: Speculum naturale

Fingerprint:

dipa i.is a.et DeDe (C) 1481 (Q) v.1

iixi i.us ruse suha (C) 1481 (Q) v.2

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Printer of the Legenda aurea], [not after 13 Dec. 1481]

Notes:

Title from incipit of v. 1 (leaf [a]2r), which reads: Incipit speculum naturale Vincentij beluacensis fratris ordinis predicatoru[m]. Et primo prologus de causa suscepti operis et eius materia.

Imprint from ISTC. "Also recorded as [for Anton Koberger, about 1483] and [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1486] and [Basel: Johann Amerbach?] ... Proctor assigned this work to Koberger in Nuremberg, BMC II to Basel, and BMC III to Strassburg. Dated about 1483 by Sack, who suggests that it was printed by the Printer of the 'Legenda aurea' for Koberger. A München BSB copy has a rubricator's date 13 Dec. 1481."--ISTC.

Royal folio, printed in double columns. Leaf [a2]v: 69 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 332 (355) x 208 mm.; col. width: 92 mm. Initial spaces, a few with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: v. 1: [a]-[d]¹⁰ [e]-[z]⁸ [A]-[B]¹⁰ [C]-[M]⁸ [N]¹⁰ [O]⁸ [P]¹⁰ (leaves [a]1 and [b]10 blanks) ; v. 2: [2a]-[2y]⁸ [2z]⁶ [2A]-[2L]⁸ [2M]-[2N]⁶ (leaves [2a]1 and [2N]6 blanks).

Local Notes:

Leaf size: v. 1: 371 x 266 mm. ; v. 2: 368 x 266 mm. ; v. 3: 369 x 268 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: large red and blue initials on leaves [a]2r and [2b]1r; other initials supplied in red.

Penn Libraries copy: some early ms. marginal marks and manicules and a few annotations in brown ink throughout text; a few ms. manicules in pencil in text; v. 1 has modern ms. bibliographical note on front pastedown.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1923.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 2-3 each has stamp ("Oswald Weigel Antiquariat & Auctions-Institut Leipzig, Königsstr. 1") of bookseller Oswald Weigel on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in 3 volumes, each in full modern parchment with 2 gold-tooled leather spine labels (one with author's name and title, the other with shelf-mark) and all edges stippled red. Left board of v.1 damaged, revealing a portion of a parchment bifolium from a liturgical ms. (frame ruled in brown ink with first line below top line and written in a Gothic bookhand in two columns with text in dark ink, rubrics and capital strokes in red ink, and initials in red, blue or red and blue ink; contains texts for the feasts of St. Rufus, St. Augustine, St. Lawrence, St. Tiburtius, and St. Hippolytus and companions) used as binder's waste. Spine of v. 2 damaged, revealing an early printed paper leaf from a liturgical book (possibly a breviary, printed in red and black, with text in Latin and rubrics in Italian for the feast of Sts. Tiburtius, Valerianus and Maximus) and a parchment ms. leaf used as binder's waste. Left board of v. 3 damaged, revealing a parchment ms. leaf used as binder's waste.

Penn Libraries copy has occasional small squares of paper affixed in margins of leaves.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: v. 1: leaves [a]1 and [b]10 (blanks) wanting; v. 2: leaf [2a]1 (blank) wanting; v. 3: leaf [2N]6 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves closely cropped at all margins with occasional damage to headline; v.2: wormhole in inner margin of leaves [2c]2-[2h]4; v. 3: many leaves dampstained at inner margin.

Cited in:

Goff V-293

BM 15th cent., II, p. x

BM 15th cent. III, p. 860

GW M50625

BN cat. des incun. V-192

BSB-Ink. V-207

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 151, 152, 153

Sack, V. Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek ... Freiburg im Breisgau, 3682, 3683

ISTC iv00293000

OCLC:

31756634