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chap, in ] SPECULUM HUMANAE SALVATIONIS. 153
It has already been observed that Heineken, in speaking of this
work, styles that edition the first, which I term the second. His
enumeration of the pieces it contains is according to this latter
edition, wherein some of the leaves appear to be placed differently
from what they are in the original edition before us. Heineken sup-
poses that the two subjects contained in each page, were engraved
on one block; and consequently he only gives the beginning of the
first inscription in the upper compartment of each of the sixteen
pages. In the copy, which he describes, the four first pages, viz.
Nos. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. are placed as in the copy before us; then
come the two pages which I have described under Nos. 17. 18.
19. 20.; after these follow the two pages containing the Nos. 9. 10
—11. 12.; and then the two pages containing Nos. 21. 22—23. 24. :
these are followed by the pages containing Nos. 13. 14—15. 16;
and lastly come the four pages, Nos. 25. 26—27. 28—29. 30—
31. 32. I shall not attempt to account for this arrangement
of the pages, so different from that of the original edition; but I
thought it necessary to notice the circumstance, as the copy in the
Bodleian Library, like that of Mr. Verdussen, at Antwerp, is
arranged conformably to Heineken's list. See Heineken's " Idee
Generale," p. 374. I must not omit to observe, that the Bodleian
copy has been newly bound, and that each leaf is pasted down
on paper of larger dimensions, in the ordinary way of mounting-
prints ; so that the impressions do not alternately face each other,
as they did anciently. This copy is also coloured.
Speculum Humanae Salvationis;
called also
Speculum Figuratum.
The last block-book that I have undertaken to describe, is the
Speculum Salvationis," so celebrated in the annals of typogra-
x
It has already been observed that Heineken, in speaking of this
work, styles that edition the first, which I term the second. His
enumeration of the pieces it contains is according to this latter
edition, wherein some of the leaves appear to be placed differently
from what they are in the original edition before us. Heineken sup-
poses that the two subjects contained in each page, were engraved
on one block; and consequently he only gives the beginning of the
first inscription in the upper compartment of each of the sixteen
pages. In the copy, which he describes, the four first pages, viz.
Nos. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. are placed as in the copy before us; then
come the two pages which I have described under Nos. 17. 18.
19. 20.; after these follow the two pages containing the Nos. 9. 10
—11. 12.; and then the two pages containing Nos. 21. 22—23. 24. :
these are followed by the pages containing Nos. 13. 14—15. 16;
and lastly come the four pages, Nos. 25. 26—27. 28—29. 30—
31. 32. I shall not attempt to account for this arrangement
of the pages, so different from that of the original edition; but I
thought it necessary to notice the circumstance, as the copy in the
Bodleian Library, like that of Mr. Verdussen, at Antwerp, is
arranged conformably to Heineken's list. See Heineken's " Idee
Generale," p. 374. I must not omit to observe, that the Bodleian
copy has been newly bound, and that each leaf is pasted down
on paper of larger dimensions, in the ordinary way of mounting-
prints ; so that the impressions do not alternately face each other,
as they did anciently. This copy is also coloured.
Speculum Humanae Salvationis;
called also
Speculum Figuratum.
The last block-book that I have undertaken to describe, is the
Speculum Salvationis," so celebrated in the annals of typogra-
x