| Notes: | "Tractatus de animalibus" has separate title page with title: Tractatus de animalibus vitam in teris ducentium.
"Tractatus de auibus" and "Tractatus de vrinis" have separate title pages.
Incipit, leaf [2]: Incipit prohemium p[raese]ntis operis.
Explicit and colophon: ... om[n]ia hec i[n] hoc Orto sanitatis hoc est p[raese]nti opere seu libro ad penu[m] reperies. Quem quidem librum omni dilige[n]tia collectum [et] elaboratum, intelligibili caractere proprijs impensis Iacobus Meydenbach ciuis Moguntinus lucule[n]tissime impressit, su[m]ma[m]q[ue] adhibuit diligentiam, opera[m]q[ue] maxima[m] vt singule herbe ac singuli flores, suos naturales colores, ac ani[m]alia ipsa, volucres, pisces, deniq[ue] et alia in hoc preclarissimo op[er]e descripta, suas sicuti eas natura produxit habere[n]t effigies [et] figuras. Hoc modo lectitanti prodesse ac intuentem oblectare impressor ipse Iacobus voluit. Impressum est autem hoc ip[su]m in inclita ciuitate Moguntina, que ab antiquis aurea Moguntia dicta, ac a magis id est sapientibus vt fertur primitus fundata, in qua nobilissima ciuitate [et] ars ac scientia hec subtilissima caracterisandi seu imprimendi fuit primu[m] inuenta. Impressum est inquam sub archipresulatu reuerendissimi [et] dignissimi principis [et] d[omi]ni, domini Bertoldi archiepiscopi Mogu[n]tin[um] ac principis electoris cuius felicissimo auspicio graditur, recipitur [et] auctorisatur. Anno salutis millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo primo, die vero Iouis vicesima tercia mensis Junij.
Signatures: A-C⁸ D-Z⁶·⁸ a-m⁶·⁸ n-y⁸·⁶ z⁸ [et]⁸ 2a-2h⁶·⁸ 2i-2l⁶ 1⁸ 5⁶ ²A⁸ ²B-E⁶.
Printed in 2 columns; 48 lines; Haebler, types 92 (text) and 155 (headings and head-lines); 3 and 7 spaces for capitals; printed guide letters (except in 'Tractatus de herbis').
Woodcut title; numerous woodcut illustrations and 7 full page woodcuts.
Rubricated; red (and some blue) initials.
Last leaf blank.
Includes index.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ih00486000
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, page 44 (IB. 343)
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry H486
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry *8944
Klebs, A.C. Incunabula scientifica et medica, entry 509.1
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 13548
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