Incipit prologus in Speculu[m] exemplorum ex diuersis libris in vnu[m] laboriose collectum.

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Uniform title:Speculum exemplorum.
Imprint:[Cologne] : [Johann Koelhoff], [28 September 1485]
Description:[442] leaves ; 30 cm (folio)
Language:Latin
Subject:
Format: Print Book
Local Note:Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2781769
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Varying Form of Title:Incipit prologus in Speculum exemplorum ex diuersis libris in vnum laboriose collectum
Other authors / contributors:Busch, Johannes, 1399-1479 or 1480, attributed name.
Aurifaber, Aegidius, attributed name.
Koelhoff, Johann, -1493, printer.
Horton, Carolyn, conservator.
Provenance:Some former owners' annotations; some rendered illegible by later owner or partly trimmed at head.
Former owner's inscription: Ex legatis [?]gor Ioh[ann]is[?] [?]iuid.
Former owner's inscription: Sum fratrum in [scratched out].
Illegible former owner's inscription dated: 1601 13 Junij.
Binding: Blind tooled leather over wooden boards with designs of fleur-de-lis and rampant lions; tooled title: Exemplo[rum]; manuscript waste pastedowns (front pastedown from different manuscript than rear pastedown; rear pastedown is fragment from liturgical book and includes portions of 'Te igitur', 'Pater noster', and 'Pax domini sit semper vobiscum' texts; brass catches, clasps (missing); leather index tabs; conservator's note: restored by Carolyn Horton; rebacked in calf; new vellum hinges; new label 4/[19]60.
Notes:Title from incipit, leaf 43 recto.
Sometimes attributed to Aegidius Aurifaber; probably by Johannes Busch. Consult Incunabula short title catalogue.
Colophon: Ad laudem [et] gloria[m] sempiterne i[n]diuidue q[ue] trinitatis beatissime Marie Virginis omniu[m] sancto[rum] [et] angelorum finitu[m] est [et] [con];letum hoc Speculu[m] exemplo[rum] per me Johanne[m] Koelhof ciue[m] Colonie[n]sem in profesto S[an]c[t]i Michaelis anno d[omi]ni Mcccclxxxv. De q[uo] sit de[us] b[e]n[e]dict[us] in secula Amen.
Signatures: A-D⁸ E¹⁰ a-z⁸ ²A-2D⁸; Q3, R1, and R2 missigned 'P3', 'K1', and 'K2' respectively.
Printed in 2 columns; 43 lines; types 175A (headings, &c.) and 85b(88) (text); some spaces left for capitals.
First and last leaves blank.
Red itinitals to begin table and 'exemplum p[ri]mum'; foliated in manuscript beginning on leaf 44: 1-366, leaf 366, 367-397.
"Headlines on the left give the sources, those on the right the number of the distinction"--Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.
Includes index.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry is00652000
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume I, page 226 (IB. 3578)
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry *14916
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry S-652
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 1065
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M42951
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry S-504

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