Caii Plynii Secundi Naturalis hystoriae liber primus
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 57, item 1
Publisher: Op[er]a & impe[n]sa Rainaldi d[e] Nouimagio Alamani
Published: 1483
Place of publication: Venetiis impressus
Language: lat
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Natural history; Pre-Linnean works; Ancient Geography
Other titles: Caii Plynii Secvndi Natvralis hystoriae liber primvs; Naturalis hystoriae liber primus; Caius Plinius Marco suo salutem
Work titles: Naturalis historia
Notes: Edited by Filippo Beroaldo.

Title from text incipit (leaf aa3v).

Begins (leaf aa2r): Caius Plinius Marco suo salutem.

Imprint from colophon (leaf I7v).

Signatures: aa⁸ bb¹⁰ a-r¹⁰ [long s]¹⁰ s-z¹⁰ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-H⁸ I¹⁰; x3 signed 'siii'.

Initial spaces, most with guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "super-chancery"-size paper.

Leaves aa2v-aa3r contain biographical notes on Pliny excerpted from Suetonius, Tertullian, and Eusebius of Caesaria.

"Correctiones": leaves I8r-I9v.

In the Houghton Library copy, quires aa and bb are set in type measuring 90 mm. per 20 lines, the remaining quires are set in type measuring 95 mm., and the heading on leaf a1r ends: INCI. In the British Library copy, quires aa, bb, and sheets 1-4 of quire a are set in the 90 mm. type, the remaining quires are set in the 95 mm. type, and the heading on a1r ends: INCIpit. Cf. BM 15th cent.

Hain-Copinger, 13095*.

Proctor, 4445.

Goff, P-794.

BM 15th cent., V, 257 (IB.20678).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ip00794000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1761-1763.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-794

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 13095*

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 13095

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M34329

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 5, pages 257-258 (IB. 20678)

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ip00794000

John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress). The collection of John Boyd Thacher in the Library of Congress, 300

From the Boston Medical Library Collection; autograph on front flyleaf, "John Farquhar Fulton, Coll. Magd. Oxon." with his note "Purchased in York Oct. 1922 for 30/ J.F.F."

A few initials added in brown at the beginning of the book, but most spaces not filled in. In modern calf by Maltby of Oxford.