[Speculum naturale]
Publisher: Printer of the Legenda aurea
Published: 1481
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Subjects: Natural history; Pre-Linnean works
Notes: Title from BM 15th cent. and Goff.

Imprint from BM 15th cent. and Goff; Copinger gives imprint as [Nurembergae, Anth. Koburger, 1485]; Bonn gives imprint as [Basileae, Joh. de Amerbach, ca. 1486].

Vol. 1, leaf [2] recto begins: Incipit speculum naturale Vincentii be- // luacensis fratis ordinis predicatorū. Et pri- // mo prologus de causa suscepti operis et eius // materia. Ca. Primum // [Q]VONIAM // multitudo libroruz & tempis.

Signatures: v. 1: [1-4¹⁰5-23⁸24-25¹⁰26-35⁸36¹⁰37⁸38¹⁰]; v.2: [1-22⁸23⁶24-34⁸35-36⁶].

Leaves [1] and [20] of v. 1 and leaves [1] and [282] of v. 2 are blank.

Two columns; 68 and 69 lines per column.

Capital spaces of 3 to 12 lines.

Rubricated; initials in red and blue.

Illuminated initials, with gold leaf, on rectos of leaves [2] and [21] in v. 1 and leaf [9] in v. 2.

Copinger, 6257.

Proctor, 2056.

Goff, V-293.

BM 15th cent., III, 860 (IC.1252).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), iv00293000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 151-153.

Bonn. Universität. Bibliothek. Die Incunabeln der Königlichen Universitätsbibliothek zu Bonn, 1206.

From the William Norton Bullard Collection.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.