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June 78
Madliger-Schwab
Zurich $25.91 50F
Des XXVI Capitel sagt wie Cistus Ward
ab dem kruc? genommen.-
b egins P2 ends p5(of10) my leaf is p3 (middle of volume)
4 German + 2 Latin pages - no woodcut.
Speculum Humanae Salvationis
cum speculo S. Mariae Vinginis (Latin - German)
[German] Spiegel der Menschlichen Behaltniss.
Augsburg: Gunther Zainer 1473
Printed in the monastery of SS Ulrich + Afra at Augsburg
(to a metrical summary by Frater Johannes of ) Sche 5273 ef BMC II 338.
Ref: Goff 5670 BMC II 321, 338 H. 14929 Rosenwald 39
Cop: HEHL LC(R) NYPL, PML 12x7 1/4
28.7cm to 35 205 (actual size)
Chancery folio. 270 leaves 33 lines 195x124mm
Type 118b to 200 woodcut illustrations (192) - 15 repeats
Capitals (3), but also spaces.
-one of the most beautigul illustrated dooks to be created in Northern Europe.
Gunther Zainer of Reutlingen completed his 1st dated book
[crossed out] on Aug 12 [end crossed out] at Augsburg on 12 March 1468. He died
on 13 April 1478.
The main idea of the Spiegel Menschlichen Behaltris was
the same as that of the Biblia Pamperum, ie a harmony
between incidents of the Old + New Testaments, and of the
German type - printed versions some were fairly independent
(like G. Zainer's) + others more directly influenced in design by
the Bibla Pamperum.
The high period of German illustrated books was initiated by the
two Zainers - Gunther + Johann - relatives who had worked
at Strassburg but who moved on To Augsburg + Ulm
respectively. Originally scribes + illuminators, they had probably
recieved this training as printer at the workshop of J. Mentelin
Zainer printed his first 2 illustrated books in 1471+2. In
1475-6 G. Zainer printed the * Speigel de menschlichen Lebert R231 (H. 13948)
(Mirror of Human Life) a vernacular edition of one of the
most popular medieval texts which described the advantages +
disadvantages of way career rotation in life. To the new book
Zainer added large printed block capitals in the design

*a German Translation by H Steinhowel
of the Speculum Humanae Vitae by
R. Zamorensis (Rodeveus, bishop
of Zamora)