Theologia naturalis sive liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura eius inquantum homo, et de his que sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendum seipsum [et] deum et omne debitu[m] ad quod homo tenetur et obligat[ur] tam deo [quam] p[ro]ximo.
Raymond,of Sabunde,-1436.
Flach, Martin,-1500,printer.
Laurence, W.,16th century?,former owner.StEdNL
Laurence, W.,17th century?,former owner.StEdNL
Kidd, Alexander,active 1777,former owner.StEdNL
Jolly, Alexander,1756-1838,former owner.StEdNL
Episcopal Church in Scotland.Theological College,depositor.StEdNL
Imp[re]ssus Argentine : Per Martinum Flach inibi co[n]ciuem,
anno incarnat[i]o[n]is d[omi]nice Millesimoq[ua]dringentesimononagesimosexto men[sis] v[er]o Ianuarij die vicesimop[ri]mo. [21 January 1496]
Imprint from colophon.
Tabula alphabetica: fol. 2-6.
Colophon: Finit liber creatura[rum] seu nature siue nature siue de ho[m]i[n]e p[ro]pt[er] que[m] alie creature facte su[n]t ex cui[us] cognit[i]one illu[m]inat[ur] ho[mo] i[n] [co]gnit[i]o[n]e dei [et] creaturarum. Imp[re]ssus Argentine per Martinum Flach inibi co[n]ciuem anno incarnat[i]o[n]is d[omi]nice Millesimoq[ua]dringentesimononagesimosexto men[sis] v[er]o Ianuarij die vicesimop[ri]mo.
Signatures: pi⁶ a⁸ b-y⁶ z⁸ [et]⁶ [con]⁸
2 columns. 50 lines and head-line, with marginalia. Types: 175 (160), title, head-lines, etc.; 80, text. Capital spaces with printed guide-letters.
BM 15th cent., IX, p. 45, describing the Deventer ed. of this work, states the Prologus was placed on the Index expurgatorius in 1564. Polain 3312 reports copies of the Deventer ed. with the Prologus excised. The excision in the Lilly Library copy may thus be intentional.
Bound with Inc.24.5.
With marginal annotations in several hands.
Hain-Copinger
ISTC
Bodleian Lib. 15th cent.,
BSB-Ink
Proctor,
BM 15th cent.,
Polain
Goff
BN cat. des incun.,
Klebs
Walsh
IDL
Rhodes, Oxford Colleges,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Pegg, M. A. Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966,
Ink inscription at head of title in an apprarently 16th-century hand: W. Laurence. This is followed by the same name in what appears to be a 17th-century hand. Ink inscription below title: Alex Kidd wr in Edinb 1777. Bibliographical manuscript notes on the volume signed and dated I.D. Jan. 17. 1904 pasted to front board. From the library of Bishop Alexander Jolly. Deposited in the National Library by the Theological College of the Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, 8 July 1958.
Contemporary blind stamped leather over wooden boards with vellum manuscript waste pastedowns and remains of clasps. Front pastedown Psalm 118; back pastedown part of the Mass for the Dead. On both the red initials have been supplied but not the blue.
Natural theology
France Strasbourg.