Liber moralitatum elegantissimus magnaru[m] rerum naturalium Lumen anime dictus
Subtitle: cum septem apparitoribus. necnon sanctoru[m] doctoru[m] orthodoxe fidei professorum. Poetarum etiam ac oratoru[m] auctoritatib[us]. per modum pharatre s[ecundu]m ordine[m] alphabeti collectis. feliciter incipit
Contributors: Farinator, Matthias, active 1477; Zainer, Günther, -1478, printer
Publisher: Günther Zainer
Published: 1477
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 700
Subjects: Latin Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Early works to 1800; Medieval Cosmology; Medieval Science; Doctrinal Theology; Christian ethics; Catholic authors
Other titles: Lumen anime; De septem apparitoribus.
Work titles: Lumen animae
Notes: A late 13th- or early 14th-century encyclopedic work attributed to Berengarius de Landora; also wrongly attributed to Matthias Farinator, who compiled the index and edited the text.

A reprint of the ed. pub.: Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 3 September 1477.

Place of publication and printer from Goff; date from colophon.

Colophon (leaf 35/10r): Liber lumen anime dictus feliciter explicit. Qui ... stagneis caracteribus: primum in lucem est productus. Annoq[ue] a natiuitate d[omi]ni Millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimoseptimo. Vltima die decembris(summa cu[m] dilige[n]tia) co[m]pletus.

A variant state is known in which the colophon is wanting.

Signatures: [1-4¹⁰ 5⁸; 6-16¹⁰ 17¹² 18-25¹⁰; 26-35¹⁰]; 1/1, 6/1 blank.

Seven- and 9-line woodcut Maiblumen initials; initial spaces, most with guide-letter.

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper.

Includes indexes.

Hain, 10330*.

Proctor, 1552.

Goff, L-394.

BM 15th cent., II, 325 (IB.5499).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ib00341500.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 526.
Table of contents: title: Tabula prima rerum naturalium (1/3v-2/9r); title: Tabula secunda Moralitatum (leaves 2/9v-5/8v); title: [Prima pars] (6/2r-24/10r); title: De septe[m] apparitorib[us] (24/10v-25/10v); title: [Tabula] (26/1r-26/2v); title: [Secunda pars] (26/3r-35/10/r).