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Title(s):
Speculum humanae salvationis : cum Speculo S. Mariae Virginis/
Additional Title(s):
Speculum humanae salvationis.
Published/Created:
[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer at the monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra], [1473]
Physical Description:
540 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm (folio)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0090
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Zi +1542: For fuller description see collation-slip in volume. Fol. 1 (blank) and 2 wanting, fol. 2 supplied in manuscript. Allan Library and London Librarys copy. Book-plate of B.A.Z.W.
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M43054
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, page 321, 338-339
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-670
Incunabula short title catalogue, is00670000
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 14929
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 1542=1631
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0090: Imperfect: 20 non-consecutive leaves. The leaves include woodcut illustrations of: [1] the fall of Lucifer; [2] the creation of Eve; [3] the Nativity; [4] the Adoration of the Magi; [5] the Holy Virgin; [6] Eve & the Serpent; [7] the Fall; [8] Job; [9] two fishermen; [10] Samson; [11] Noah's Ark; [12] Jacob's dream; [15] Thobias; [16] Absalom; [17] Jonah and the Whale; [18] the tables of the law; [19] the baptism of Christ; [20] Christ crowned with thorns. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Allan Library -- Ownership.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
London Library -- Ownership.
W., B. A. Z. -- Bookplate.
Werther, Frederick, 1881- -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Johannes, Benedictine, of St. Ulrich and Afra (Augsburg), fl. 1459-1474.
Zainer, Günther, -1478, printer.
St. Ulrich und Afra (Benedictine abbey : Augsburg, Germany), publisher.
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