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VINCENTIUS BELLOVACENSIS (ca.1190-ca.1264). Speculum historiale. [Augsburg: Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra], 1474.
Three volumes. Royal 2° (362x257mm). Collation: I: [1-810 98 10-1610 178 18-2010 218 22-2710 2812(11+1) 29-3210 3310(9+1) 3410] (1/1 blank, 1/2r prologue, 1/3r books 1-5, 18/1r book 6, 21/8v blank, 22/1r book 7 - 8, chap. 109, 29/1r book 8, chap. 110 - book 10, 33/11v blank, 34/1r register of part I, 34/10 blank). II: [π8.. 1-1310 1412 15-2510 2612 27-3010 318 3210] (π1 register, 1/1r books 11-15, 15/1r books 16-19, 27/1r books 20-21, 32/10v blank). III: [1-610 78 86(5+1) 9-1410 1510(9+1) 16-1910 20-218 22-3710 3810] (1/1r books 22-23, 9/1r books 24-25, 16/1r books 26-27, chap. 92, 22/1r book 27, chap. 93 - book 31, 37/10 blank, 38/1r register of part III). 336 (of 338, without blanks 1/1 and 34/10); 322 (of 331, with the first quire of 9 lvs. (register of part II) supplied in early manuscript); 371 (of 372, without blank 37/10) leaves; a quire of 12 lvs. containing a table for the whole work written in an early hand follows part I, and the printed registers of parts I and III precede, rather than follow, the main text in those volumes. 52 lines, double column. Type: 2:103G, printed guide-letters beginning in part I, quire 28. 3- to 12-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, headlines giving book numbers in red, some ms. guide-letters in part I, early foliation. (Occasional light dampstains, sometimes fading rubrication, some small tears affecting a few letters.) Sixteenth-century limp vellum, white-painted spines with title painted over, green edges. Provenance: some annotations in an early hand; Jesuit College at Munich, paper label in parts II and III dated 1595, inscription and "no.2733"; stamp "Ecole Sainte-Genevieve B.D.J." in all volumes; armorial stamp, illegible ("Firmas-Rh--).
SECOND EDITION of the Speculum historiale, Vincent of Beauvais's encylopedic history of mankind from Creation to the author's lifetime, ending about 1254. It was one of only five books printed at the Benedictine monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra. According to a contemporary chronicle of the monastery by one of its monks, Wilhelm Wittwer, printing began there under Abbot Melchior von Stamhaim in 1472. At the abbot's death in January 1474 printing of the Vincent of Beauvais was not yet finished; after its completion, and without Melchior's continued interest, printing at the monastery ceased. Anton Sorg was probably the last master of the monastic printing shop and therefore worked on the Speculum historiale before setting up his own shop, taking with him this type. This Klotz copy is in good, unpressed condition with the bearer type still clearly visible as described in BMC, including that at the end of volume II showing a large range of sorts of this type. C 6247; BMC II, 339 (IC. 5774); Goff V-284; Polain(B) 3942; IDL 4649; IGI 10314 (3)
Three volumes. Royal 2° (362x257mm). Collation: I: [1-810 98 10-1610 178 18-2010 218 22-2710 2812(11+1) 29-3210 3310(9+1) 3410] (1/1 blank, 1/2r prologue, 1/3r books 1-5, 18/1r book 6, 21/8v blank, 22/1r book 7 - 8, chap. 109, 29/1r book 8, chap. 110 - book 10, 33/11v blank, 34/1r register of part I, 34/10 blank). II: [π8.. 1-1310 1412 15-2510 2612 27-3010 318 3210] (π1 register, 1/1r books 11-15, 15/1r books 16-19, 27/1r books 20-21, 32/10v blank). III: [1-610 78 86(5+1) 9-1410 1510(9+1) 16-1910 20-218 22-3710 3810] (1/1r books 22-23, 9/1r books 24-25, 16/1r books 26-27, chap. 92, 22/1r book 27, chap. 93 - book 31, 37/10 blank, 38/1r register of part III). 336 (of 338, without blanks 1/1 and 34/10); 322 (of 331, with the first quire of 9 lvs. (register of part II) supplied in early manuscript); 371 (of 372, without blank 37/10) leaves; a quire of 12 lvs. containing a table for the whole work written in an early hand follows part I, and the printed registers of parts I and III precede, rather than follow, the main text in those volumes. 52 lines, double column. Type: 2:103G, printed guide-letters beginning in part I, quire 28. 3- to 12-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, headlines giving book numbers in red, some ms. guide-letters in part I, early foliation. (Occasional light dampstains, sometimes fading rubrication, some small tears affecting a few letters.) Sixteenth-century limp vellum, white-painted spines with title painted over, green edges. Provenance: some annotations in an early hand; Jesuit College at Munich, paper label in parts II and III dated 1595, inscription and "no.2733"; stamp "Ecole Sainte-Genevieve B.D.J." in all volumes; armorial stamp, illegible ("Firmas-Rh--).
SECOND EDITION of the Speculum historiale, Vincent of Beauvais's encylopedic history of mankind from Creation to the author's lifetime, ending about 1254. It was one of only five books printed at the Benedictine monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra. According to a contemporary chronicle of the monastery by one of its monks, Wilhelm Wittwer, printing began there under Abbot Melchior von Stamhaim in 1472. At the abbot's death in January 1474 printing of the Vincent of Beauvais was not yet finished; after its completion, and without Melchior's continued interest, printing at the monastery ceased. Anton Sorg was probably the last master of the monastic printing shop and therefore worked on the Speculum historiale before setting up his own shop, taking with him this type. This Klotz copy is in good, unpressed condition with the bearer type still clearly visible as described in BMC, including that at the end of volume II showing a large range of sorts of this type. C 6247; BMC II, 339 (IC. 5774); Goff V-284; Polain(B) 3942; IDL 4649; IGI 10314 (3)