Prefatio in libru[m] qui dicitur dyalogus creaturarum moralisatus om[n]i materie moralie iocundo & edificatiuo modo applicabilis
Contributors: Mayno, de' Mayneri, -1368; Leeu, Gerard, approximately 1445-1493, printer; Riviere & Son; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Per Gerardum leeu in opido antwerpiensi inceptus
Published: 1486
Place of publication: Antwerp, Belgium]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Fables, Latin (Medieval and modern); Exempla; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Praefatio in librum qui dicitur dialogus creaturarum; Dyalogus creaturarum
Work titles: Dialogus creaturarum
Notes: Title from leaf A2; imprint from colophon.

Variously attributed to Nicolaus Pergaminus and Mayno de'Mayneri.

First published by Gerard Leeu at Gouda, June 3, 1480, and followed by many editions.

Signatures: A⁶ a-k⁶ l⁸ (A1 and l8 blank).

Prefatory material (gathering A) printed in 2 columns.

LC copy has initials decorated in colors, leaves A2 and a1; capital strokes and paragraph marks in red; minor initials in red and blue. The woodcuts are hand-colored.  Bound by Rivere & Son.

Goff N-155

Hain-Copinger 6129

GW M22251

BM 15th cent., IX, p. 188 (IB. 49753)

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) id00159400