Magnum speculum exemplorum : ex plusquam octoginta auctoribus, pietate, doctrina et antiquitate venerandis, variisque historiis, tractatibus et libellis excerptum, ab anonimo quodam, qui circiter annum Domini 1480 vixisse deprehenditur : opus variis notis, auctorumque citationibus illustratum & centum sexaginta exemplis locupletatum

Jean Major; (Johann)

Coloniae Agrippinae : Joannem Wilhelmi Friessem, 1718

Quarto, 21 x 16.5 cm. Bound in contemporary calf, decorated in blind.  All edges gilt. Remnants of string ties. Half-title, [14], 683, [69] pages.  Contemporary marginalia on end pages.  Text printed in two columns.  Title printed in red and black. Stains to first few pages. Catholic library stamp on title page. Refs: De Backer & Sommervogel V, pages 379-81. 

A compilation of legends based on the "Gesta Romanorum", a collection of examples of a Christian life intended for use in preaching, already printed as an incunable.