Das bůch der Natürlichen weiszheit
Publisher: Anton Sorg
Published: 1490
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: ger
Translated from: lat
Subjects: Latin Fables; Translations into German; Conduct of life; Early works to 1800; Christian life; Christian ethics
Other titles: Buch der natürlichen Weisheit
Work titles: Speculum sapientiae German
Notes: The author is often wrongly identified as Saint Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, Saint Cyril, Apostle to the Slavs, or to a Cyril de Quidenon.

Also attributed to Boniohannes de Messana. Cf. T. Kaeppeli, Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum medii aevi, I, 699.

Translated by Ulrich von Pottenstein.

Colophon (leaf r5v): ... Getrucket vnd vollendet in der Keÿserlichen statt Augspurg von Anthonio Sorg. An santt Vrbans tage. Nach der menschwerdunge Cristi Ihesu In dem M.CCCC. vnd LXXXX. Iar.

Signatures: a-q⁸ r⁶ s⁴ (r6 blank).

Full-page woodcut on a1v, 67 smaller woodcuts in text (some repeated), 5- and 10-line Maiblumen initials.

Text in double columns, 36 lines per column.

Leaves Cxiii-Cxxxiii (p1r-r5v) contain German translations of 3 tracts by Albertanus Brixiensis: De arte loquendi et tacendi, Liber consolationis et consilii (abridged), and De amore et dilectione dei et proximi; cf. BSB-Ink.

Hain-Copinger, 4047*.

Proctor, 1715.

Goff, C-1023.

GW, 7896.

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 3650.

BM 15th cent., II, 355 (IB.6043).

BSB-Ink, B-745.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ic01023000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 583.