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Lot 279
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Small folio (225 x 170 mm). Collation: 1-4 a-z A-I⁸⋅⁶ K-M⁶ N O⁸. 284 leaves (of 286, lacking a1 title, provided in pen facsimile, and o8 blank). Text in 2 columns, 52 lines. Spaces for capital letters with printed guide-letters. (Several leaves trimmed shaving or causing loss of headlines, signature marks, or last line of text; first 27 leaves with repairs to upper- and fore-margins occasionally with loss of letters provided in pen facsimile; some staining.) Later blind-tooled calf, remnants of paper label on spine (lacking ties, worn, two shelf labels on spine.)
A close reprint of the edition of 1 March 1490. Long attributed to Aegidius Aurifaber, the Speculum exemplorum is now more commonly considered to be the work of Johannes Busch. This collection first appeared in 1481, and is a compilation of monk's legends after the "Gesta Romanorum", and from works by Gregorius Magnus, Petrus Amianus, Hieronymus Presbyter, Beda, and others. Goff S655; H 14919*; Pell 1619; BMC I, 144; BSB-Ink S-507; GW M42959; ISTC is00655000.
