Le Proprietaire en francoys
Publisher: Johann Siber
Published: 1486
Place of publication: Lyon
Language: fre
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 504
Subjects: Botany; Pre-Linnean works; Zoology; Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Early works to 1600; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Science; Medieval Medicine
Other titles: Propriétaire en françois
Work titles: De proprietatibus rerum
Notes: Translated by Jean Corbichon.

Edited by Pierre Farget.

Colophon (leaf G10r): [C]estuy liure des proprietez des choses fut translate de latin en frencois ... par ... iehan corbicho[n] ... et a este reuisite par ... pierre ferget ... et imprime audit lien de lion par ho[n]norable ho[m]me maistre Iehan cyber maistre e[n] lart de impression.

Publication date from GW; CIBN and ISTC give date as ca. 1484.

Signatures: pi⁸ a-z⁸ A-E⁸ F-G¹⁰.

Text in double columns, 55-56 lines per column.

Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.

Twenty woodcut ill., half-page or larger.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Hain-Copinger, 2513

Proctor, 8540

Goff, B-146

GW, 3418

CIBN, B-107

BM 15th cent., VIII, 252 (IC.41639)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ib00143800

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3755.

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Purchase; source unknown; 29 July 1925; Degrand fd.

Purchase; source unknown; 29 March 1918; Inc 25.3; C.E. Norton fd.

Imperfect: wanting the title page; some marginal repairs.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication. The woodcut of the earth on leaf c5r has been crudely hand-colored.

A few old MS. annotations.

Bound in 19th-century brown blind-stamped morocco; edges gilt.

Imperfect: three fragments only (each 76 x 129 mm.), all from leaf l8.

Initial letters and capital strokes added in red.

Removed from a binding; dampstained.