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This edition, without synonyms, is the first known Italian edition of the anonymous Herbarius. Cf. BM 15th cent. Often wrongly attributed to Arnaldus de Villanova. Title page includes portraits of Avicenna and Arnaldus de Villanova. Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.8 x 14.1 cm; 33 lines; area of text: 14.4 x 8.9 cm. With woodcut initials; woodcut border on leaf pi2; initial spaces with guide-letters from leaf u2 until the end; paragraph marks and headlines; without catchwords. Signatures: pi⁴ a-x⁸ (pi1, t8 blank). Binding: green morocco; binder's stamp: Bound by Lloyd.
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Michael Puff von Schrick's Von den ausgebrannten Wässern. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 25.1 x 18.3 cm. Signatures: [a⁶ b⁴ c⁶ (c6 blank)]. Imperfect: final blank leaf (leaf c6) lacking. Woodcut initials on leaf [a]2r filled in with red; rubrication in red. Binding: blind-tooled calf.
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![Hier beghint een loue goods een ghenoechlick profitelic boec ghehieten Dyalogus creaturarum dat is twijspraeck der creaturen ouer gheset wtten latinen in goede[n] duytsche](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4N3DD00%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Translation of Dialogus creaturarum into Dutch. Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus on the basis of Paris BN MS. lat 8512, and to Mayno de Mayneriis (Magninus Mediolanensis) on the basis of a MS. at Cremona C, supported by local references in the text. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.1 x 18.6 cm. Text in one column. Woodcut border on leaf b1r. Printer's device above colophon. Signatures: a⁶ b-q⁸. Imperfect: leaf b1 trimmed, with some loss of the woodcut border. Occasional leaves have rubrication and illustrations traced in red. Binding: brown morocco.
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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.1 x 14.6 cm; text in one column measuring approximately 12.3 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d⁸ e⁶ f-g¹⁰ h-i⁸ k-n¹⁰ (a1 blank)]. Initials in red or blue; rubrication in red. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. Modern binding using a 15th century German[?] manuscript parchment leaf from antiphonal as a covering.
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Includes fourteen full page woodcut illustrations. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.6 x 19 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 20.5 x 12.9. Woodcut initials. Signatures: pi² a⁸ b-z⁶ A-E⁶ (E6 blank). Imperfect: leaves a1 and B1 lacking and replaced with facsimiles. Binding: contemporary German half blindstamped calfskin and beech boards.
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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.2 x 14.8 cm. Text in one column measuring approximately 12.9 x 7.7 cm. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [a-m⁸ n⁶ (a1 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf [a]1) lacking. Binding errors: leaf d[8] bound before leaf [d]7 and leaves [f]5 and [f]6 bound before leaves [f]3 and [f]4. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: blue morocco.
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