Details

Subject(s)

• Natural theology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Printer

• Paffraet, Richard [Browse]

Former owner

• Crawford, William Horatio, 1815?-1888 [Browse]
• Heaton, John Deakin,‏ ‎ 1817-1880 [Browse]
• Caton, Richard,‏ ‎ 1842-1926 [Browse]

Notes

• Title and imprint from ISTC.
• "Dated from the use of the paper-stocks"--ISTC. Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., BSB-Ink, and BN cat. des incun. give date as: [1480-1485]; Campbell as: [ca. 1480]; BM 15th cent. and Goff as: [not after 1485]; Polain as: [before 1485]
• Alphabetical table of contents on p. [3-15] (leaves A2-15).
• "The prologue of the Theologia naturalis is included in the Index librorum prohibitorum, 1564, and copies of Pafraet's edition are known in which it has been supressed"--BM 15th cent
• In double columns, 39 lines. Capital spaces with guide-letters.
• In Lilly Library copy first capital space of text filled in blue, all others in red; paragraph marks and capital strokes also in red.
• Signatures: A a-z aa-hh⁸
• Colophon: ... Imp[re]ssus Daue[n]trie p[er] me Rychardu[m] Paffroed.
• Lilly Library copy imperfect: initial blank wanting.

Binding note

Princeton copy 1 Contemporary blind-stamped calf, a rich decor of triple blind-stamped fillets, bees and fleur-de-lis around the covers, redone spine as original.

Provenance

Princeton copy 1 Provenance: Libraries of the Monastère franciscain de Dorsten (Westphalia) with a handwritten inscription in the superior margin of the first leaf warning against “anathema auferenti” thefts, John Deakin Heaton (1817-1880) and Richard Caton, with ex-libris.

References

• Goff, R-32
• ISTC, ir00032000
• Hain-Copinger, 14067
• Campbell, 1490
• BM 15th cent., IX, p. 45 (IB. 47554)
• Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., R-017
• BSB-Ink, R-19
• Klebs, 824.1
• Proctor, 8968
• BN cat. des incun., R-23
• IDL, 3861
• Madsen, 3567
• Oates, 3454

Place name(s)

Netherlands Deventer.

Other title(s)

Liber creaturarum

OCLC

77898607

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