Incipit opus p[ar]uu[m] et vtile q[uo]d ab autore speculum iuuenu[m] intitulat[ur]. docens quo[d] ab ineunte etate d[omi]ni iugum p[rae]cipue p[ro]pter q[uat]tuor est deportandum.

Author
Herxen, Dirc van, 1381-1457 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
[Zwolle] : [Johannes de Vollenhoe], [between 1478/79 and 1480]
Description
12 unnumbered leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Details

Subject(s)
Printer
Rare books genre
Notes
  • This press formerly assigned to Peter van Os.
  • Title from incipit, [a1] recto.
  • Colophon, [b6] verso: Explicit speculum iuuenu[m] compositu[m] ab hu[m]ili viro d[omi]no theoderico de hercksen prẽ dom[us] clericoru[m] in Zwollis opus licet p[ar]uu[m] t[ame]n p[er]fructosum.
  • Signatures: [a-b⁶].
  • Two words of text at the foot of b4 verso are repeated at the head of b5 recto.
  • Theodoricus de Herxen. Speculum juvenum, [a1r-b6v].
Binding note
HSVR copy: Modern vellum backed marbled paper boards, original vellum sewing guards.
Provenance
HSVR copy: Early marginal manuscript annotations and minor ameliorations of type and text, probably made in 1515 by the reader who dated the verso of the final leaf.
References
  • BM 15th cent., IX, p. 82
  • Campbell, 1653
  • Goff, Suppl., T146a
  • Hain-Copinger, 3000
  • ISTC, it00146500
  • Oates, 3596
  • Thienen & Goldfinch. Incunabula printed in the Low Countries, 2086
Place name(s)
Netherlands Zwolle.
OCLC
792885942
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