Leaves [1], [246] and [466] are blanks.

Title from first printed page (aa1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf 2E6v; full colophon reads: Hier eyndet dat boeck welck ghehieten is bartholomeus vanden proprieteyten der dinghen inden iaer ons heren M.CCCC. en[de] lxxxv. opte[n] heylighen kersauent. Ende is gheprint ende oeck mede voleyndt te haerlem in hollant ter eren godes ende om leringhe der menschen van mi Meester Iacop Belleart ghebore[n] van zerixzee.

Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.9 x 19.5 cm. Text printed in double columns; 40 lines per col.; col. width: 6.6 cm.; area of text: 20 x 14.1 cm. With initial spaces, guide-letters, and signatures; without foliation and catchwords.

Includes 11 full-page woodcut illustrations (approx. 200 x 140 mm. each): Almighty God seated in glory (a1v); the creation of angels and fall of demons (a8v); the creation of Eve and anatomical man (c4v); the ages of man, a physician and surgeon attending patients (m7v); the earth and the spheres ([long s]7v); occupations of the months (u2v); birds (y7v); fishes ([z with a crossbar]7v); a landscape showing a river and towns, etc. (A1v); trees and plants (F1v); and animals and reptiles (Q2v).

Printer's device (2E7r) is a gryphon, supporting a blank shield; above, a smaller shield bearing the arms of Haarlem suspended by a loop from white interlacing strap-work on a black ground. Device is surrounded by a four-piece border decorated with birds, foliage, and grotesques. Cf. BM 15th cent., IX, p. 101.

Signatures: 2a⁶ 2b⁴ a-r⁸ [rounded r]⁸ [long s]⁸ s-t⁸ v⁸ u⁸ w⁸ x-z⁸ [z with crossbar]⁸ [con]⁶ ē⁶ A-V⁸ W⁸ X-Y⁸ 2A-2B⁸ 2C-2D⁶ 2E⁸. (2a1, ē6, and 2E8 blank).

With table of contents: 2a2r-2b4r.

Many copies have Initials supplied in red or blue; large initials in red, blue, and green. Paragraph marks in red throughout.

Woodcuts colored by hand in many copies.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 102 (IB. 48508)

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 3423.

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 2522

Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, 1886

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-142

Incunabula short title catalogue, ib00142000

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, B-069

Klebs, A.C. Incunabula scientifica et medica, 151.1

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, B-100

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), B-111

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum 9173

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