Title from caption on leaf a1 recto.

Imprint from colophon on leaf (g4 recto): Impressum Venetiis per Georgium de Arrivabenis anno Domini .M.cccclxxxxvi. die ultimo mensis Augusti.

On the text, to be attributed to Albertus de Orlamu˜nde rather than Albertus Magnus, see Thomas Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum medii aevi, 4 vols (Rome, 1970-93), I (1970), p. 31, and Bernhard Geyer, Die Albert dem Grossen zugeschriebene Summa naturalium (Philosophia Pauperum). Texte und Untersuchungen, BGPTM 35 (Mu˜nster, 1938), pp. 42-47, 60-62.

The text printed here is an excerpt from recension B: see Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Signatures: a-f́ı ǵœ (g6=blank)

Chancery quarto; a3 recto: 37 lines plus headline, 157 (164) x 108 mm; type: 84R; initial spaces with and without guide letters, woodcuts.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 386

Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A-131

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A298

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00298000

cataloged 20190903 jm

condition reviewed 20200203 cl