Title
Speculum animae peccatricis.
Varying form of title
Opusculu[m] quod speculu[m] anime peccatricis inscribitur
Varying form of title
Opusculum quod speculum anime peccatricis inscribitur
Imprint
[Paris] : Antoine Caillaut, [about 1482-1484]
Physical description
26 leaves ; 190 mm x 134 mm (4to)
Note
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Note
Title on leaf a2r: "Opusculu[m] quod speculu[m] anime peccatricis inscribitur incipit feliciter".
Note
Colophon on leaf c10r: "Speculu[m] anime peccatricis a quoda[m] cartusiense editu[m] exaratu[m] p[er] Antoniu[m] Cayllaut: finit feliciter.".
Note
Spaces for initials, with printed guide letters; no guide letter for [M] on leaf c2r.
Note
Sometimes falsely attributed to Dionysius Carthusiensis, the Speculum is now attributed either to Jacobus de Gruytrode (cf. Bloomfield) or to Jacobus de Clusa (cf. L. Meier, Die Werke des Erfurter Karthäusers Jakob von Jüterbog, Münster, 1955) (CIBN). Jacobus de Clusa also recorded as Jacobus de Jüterbog or de Paradiso (Verfasserlexikon 2, Bd 4 col.478ff). See ISTC is00641600.
Note
Collation: a-b8 c10.
Citation/references note
ISTC, is00641600
Citation/references note
GW, M10744
Citation/references note
BSB-Ink, I-22
Citation/references note
CLC, S1625
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of R.A. Chermside M.D., with address “Paris Rue Taitbout” on upper pastedown.
Provenance
Book label of Salisbury Museum on upper pastedown: "Salisbury Museum Library Deposited 1920".
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (20th century, large format) with design based on the Dean and Chapter seal, and inscription “Sarvm Cathedral Library.”
Binding
17th-century French parchment over paper boards; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with lines intersecting some way in from the edges; smooth spine; text block edges sprinkled red and blue; titles in ink on spine.
Copy-specific note
Fifteenth-century decoratation, possibly French, in green and red: 4-line, and 3-line initials; paragraph marks; line fillers; highlighting of printed capitals; underlining of part titles, chapter titles, words, and citations.
Copy-specific note
Bound with three other incunabula: Nicolas de Hannapes, Exempla sacrae Scripturae ex utroque Testamento collecta (Paris, 1477/78) (ISTC in00105000); Aurelius Augustinus, Sermones ad heremitas. Add. Homiliae duae (Strassbourg, not after 1487)(ISTC ia01314000); Cordiale quattuor novissimorum (Paris, about 1485) (ISTC ic00891500). The four may have been bound together by the early 16th century. All four have very similar fifteenth- (or early sixteenth-) century decoration added in green and red.
Subject
Spiritual life Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Caillaut, Antoine, active 1483-1506 printer.
Added entry--name
Denis, the Carthusian, 1402-1471 attributed name.
Added entry--name
Jacobus, de Gruytrode, active 1440-1475 attributed name.
Added entry--name
Jacobus, de Clusa, 1381?-1465 attributed name.
Added entry--name
Chermside, Robert Alexander, Sir, 1792–1860 former owner.
Added entry--name
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum former owner.
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UKSbSC
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