Bod-Inc: S-262
Speculum
Speculum aureum animae peccatricis [German] Ein köstlicher geistlicher Spiegel der armen sündigen Seele.
Analysis of Content
a1v [Speculum aureum animae peccatricis, German.] ‘Die vorred'. Incipit: ‘[E]in kostlich geistlich Spiegel der armen sündigen Sele. Als Salomon spricht am ersten im Büch Ecclesiastes von der Welt Verschmaechunge . . .’
a2v ‘Das Register'.
a3r [Speculum aureum animae peccatricis, German.] ‘Das erst Capitel'. Incipit: ‘[W]arumb bin ich ausgangen aus meiner Mutter Leib . . .’ See VL III 91-2, at 91.
Imprint
Imprint: Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut, 5 May 1484. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–i8.
References
ISTC: is00649800
Hain: HC 14949;
BMC: BMC II 534;
Proctor: Pr 2563;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑27; CIBN S‑340; Sack, Freiburg, 1952; not in Sheppard.
LCN: 14459456
Copies
Copy number: S-262(1)
Wanting the blank leaf i8.
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) parchment dyed red. Sprinkled red-edged leaves.
Size: 190 × 132 × 22 mm.
Size of leaf: 182 × 124 mm.
Some initials have been supplied in brown ink; in the same hand, some underlining and crossing out of text.
Provenance: Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); armorial book-plate; purchased from Martin Breslauer in 1954 for £70; accession no. ‘R 1250'. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman.
SHELFMARK: Broxb. 68.49.
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