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10 MISCELLANEOUS. \TFithont Place,
« sub judice,’ we proceed to a minute, and, it is lioped, interesting, de-
seription of this extraordinary publication :—among the most popular
of tliose of the xm, xiv, and xvth centuries. £ Such was its reputation
among' the Benedictins (says Heinecken) that scarcely a library or
monastery was without a MS. of it: sometimes ornamented with
drawings in distemper, and sometimes without any ornament/ p. 468.
The recto of the first leaf presents us with the proheme, and with
the titles of the chapters. The reverse gives us a title, by which the
book is called ‘ Sfeculum Sanctje Mari.® Virginis.’ The reverse of
the ensuing leaf shews a proheme ‘ of a new compilation, whose
name and title are ‘ Speculum HumanjE Salvationis.’ Hence the
work seems to have received indifferently the title of either. Heads
of the several chapters, and a variety of moral sentences, ensue. The
latter terminate thus, on the reverse of tlie 8th leaf from tlie begin-
ning of the volume inclusively ;
0 fcone ilj’tt fcm frt tjoc opttoculuni tibi complaccut
^rojrimo^ efciiftcct. t me gratum tifci fatiat.
5Hmen
The recto of the ensuing leaf is blank. On the reverse begins the
text of the work, preceded by a wood-cut (which Heinecken is pleased
tonshire. The type is very different from tliat of the above work, and rather resembles
the printing of Anthony Sorg. On the other hand, we know that Gunther Zainer
printed tlie Speculum, &c. in 1471, in a type similar to that of the above, containing tlie
same number of lines in a l'ull page, (35,) but without cuts. See Panzer, vol. i. p. 100.
The type is also seen in the Ars Amandi of Ovid, of the same date: see vol. ii. p. 201; and
it appears to ’nave been chosen by Gunther on his rejection of the characters which he
used in Bonaventure’s Life of Clirist, A. D. 1468, and in the Catholicon of Balbus, 1469 :
see vol. iii. pp. 38, 194. Schuzler made use of this rejected character, which, it rnust be
confessed, is more elegant than that of the Speculum and the Ars Amandi, &c. Tlie name
of John Zainer is also subjoined to this very character, in the JEsop, without date, which
5s described in vol. i. p. 312, &c.
Next, as to the name in the subscription at the end of the volume : see above, post. All
that we observe in the subscription itself, is * loliannes, minimus monachus.’ Veith thought
this name was designed for Iohannes de Carniola; and Krismer, for Iohannes de Giltingen.
Meerman seems to have mistaken the name for that of the compiler of the worlc itself;
whereas, as Heinecken justly observes, it is only that of tlie autlior of the Abridgement, or
Compendium. Heinecken’s fac-simile of this subscription is very faithless, Idee, &c.
p. 467, note. The same bibliographer’s argument about Gunther Zainer having probably
printed an edition of the work, of about the date of 1471, is useless; since an impression,
with this very date subjoined, is in existence, See Panzer, Ibid,
« sub judice,’ we proceed to a minute, and, it is lioped, interesting, de-
seription of this extraordinary publication :—among the most popular
of tliose of the xm, xiv, and xvth centuries. £ Such was its reputation
among' the Benedictins (says Heinecken) that scarcely a library or
monastery was without a MS. of it: sometimes ornamented with
drawings in distemper, and sometimes without any ornament/ p. 468.
The recto of the first leaf presents us with the proheme, and with
the titles of the chapters. The reverse gives us a title, by which the
book is called ‘ Sfeculum Sanctje Mari.® Virginis.’ The reverse of
the ensuing leaf shews a proheme ‘ of a new compilation, whose
name and title are ‘ Speculum HumanjE Salvationis.’ Hence the
work seems to have received indifferently the title of either. Heads
of the several chapters, and a variety of moral sentences, ensue. The
latter terminate thus, on the reverse of tlie 8th leaf from tlie begin-
ning of the volume inclusively ;
0 fcone ilj’tt fcm frt tjoc opttoculuni tibi complaccut
^rojrimo^ efciiftcct. t me gratum tifci fatiat.
5Hmen
The recto of the ensuing leaf is blank. On the reverse begins the
text of the work, preceded by a wood-cut (which Heinecken is pleased
tonshire. The type is very different from tliat of the above work, and rather resembles
the printing of Anthony Sorg. On the other hand, we know that Gunther Zainer
printed tlie Speculum, &c. in 1471, in a type similar to that of the above, containing tlie
same number of lines in a l'ull page, (35,) but without cuts. See Panzer, vol. i. p. 100.
The type is also seen in the Ars Amandi of Ovid, of the same date: see vol. ii. p. 201; and
it appears to ’nave been chosen by Gunther on his rejection of the characters which he
used in Bonaventure’s Life of Clirist, A. D. 1468, and in the Catholicon of Balbus, 1469 :
see vol. iii. pp. 38, 194. Schuzler made use of this rejected character, which, it rnust be
confessed, is more elegant than that of the Speculum and the Ars Amandi, &c. Tlie name
of John Zainer is also subjoined to this very character, in the JEsop, without date, which
5s described in vol. i. p. 312, &c.
Next, as to the name in the subscription at the end of the volume : see above, post. All
that we observe in the subscription itself, is * loliannes, minimus monachus.’ Veith thought
this name was designed for Iohannes de Carniola; and Krismer, for Iohannes de Giltingen.
Meerman seems to have mistaken the name for that of the compiler of the worlc itself;
whereas, as Heinecken justly observes, it is only that of tlie autlior of the Abridgement, or
Compendium. Heinecken’s fac-simile of this subscription is very faithless, Idee, &c.
p. 467, note. The same bibliographer’s argument about Gunther Zainer having probably
printed an edition of the work, of about the date of 1471, is useless; since an impression,
with this very date subjoined, is in existence, See Panzer, Ibid,