Rodericus Zamorensis: Speculum vitae humanae.
Paris: Petrus Caesaris and Johannes Stol, [1473]
Fol. [1-1110 12-138]. [126] leaves, 117, 118, 125, and 126 blank.
ISTC ir00221000; Goff R221; BMC VIII 10; Bod-inc R-087.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.3.7 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | In this copy gathering 13 is bound at the beginning. |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Paris, Celestines, S. Maria (suppressed 1779): 15th/16th-century inscription on 12/7r (f. 117r) “Iste liber signat[us] per 408 est celestinor[um] beate marie de parisius”. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “X.3.2”. |
| Binding: | France(?), 17th/18th-century vellum; green silk bookmark. Size: 298 x 220 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 289 x 211 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations and corrections in an early hand; occasional “nota” marks and underlining; traces of early manuscript signatures in some gatherings; erased ownership(?) inscription on 13/1r (f. 119r); early 18th-century note in Latin on 12/7r (f. 117r) dating the book to ca. 1475 on the evidence of the Paris bookseller, Jean de la Caille, and the Sorbonne librarian and historian of printing, André Chevillier, below which is a later 18th-century note in French referring to the printers’ colophon on 13/6v (f. 124v). |
| Decoration: | Initial “S” on 1/1r, initial “S” on 1/4r, initial “M” on 7/2r (f. 62r) supplied in red and blue with reserved white; other initials and paragraph marks supplied in alternate red or blue throughout; running book numbers in upper margin supplied in red or blue and also in red and blue. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank 12/8 (f. 118). |
