Dialogus creaturaru[m] optime moralizatus om[n]i materie morali iocu[n]do mo[do] applicabilis: ad laude[m] dei et edificationem hominu[m] Incipit feliciter
Contributors: Mayno, de' Mayneri, -1368, attributed name; Winters, Conrad, active 1475-1482, printer; Maggs Bros
Publisher: Conrad Winters
Published: 1481
Place of publication: Cologne
Language: lat
Number of pages: 64
Other titles: Dialogus creaturarum optime moralizatus; Prefatio in librum qui dicitur dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus; Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Dialogus creaturarum
Notes: Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus on the basis of Paris BN MS. lat 8512, and to the Milanese doctor Mayno de Mayneriis on the basis of a MS. at Cremona C, supported by local references in the text (Pio Rajna, Intorno al cosiddetto Dialogus creaturarum ed al suo autore, in Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 10 (1887) pp. 75-113).--ISTC.

Title from incipit on leaf [1́]. Incipit of preface on leaf [1́] reads: Prefatio in libru[m] qui dicitur dyalogus creaturaru[m] moralizatus: omni materie morali iocu[n]do [et] edificatiuo modo applicabilis Incipit feliciter.

Imprint from colophon on leaf [8́], which reads: Presens liber Dialogus creaturarum appellatus: iocundis fabulis plenus: industria [et] exsipens Conradi de homborch incole colonien[sis]. inceptus [et] finitus est. Anno domini millesimoq[ua]dringentesimooctogesimoprimo me[n]sis octobris die xxiiij.

Signatures: [1-8́ı] ([1́] and [8́]=blank; all leaves unsigned)

Chancery folio; printed in double columns, 41 lines per column; initial spaces without guide letters.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, N-153

Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 249

Incunabula short title catalogue, in00159200

Cataloged 20171004 jmoschella

condition reviewed 20171030 cletizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in ca. 19th-/20th-century sheepskin and pulled paste. Spine ruled and stamped in gilt with red label. Bookplate of BPL James Lyman Whitney Fund. Dealer's description (Maggs) laid onto front pastedown. Both blanks ([1́] and [8́]) wanting. Rubricated in red throughout. Some early marginalia. Leaf dimensions: 275 x 200 mm. Purchased Aug. 1964 from Magss Brothers (catalog 892, no. 16).