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Konrad, von Megenberg, 1309-1374, Das Buch der Natur, an mittwoche[n] nächst vor sant Jacobs tag ... M.cccc.lxxxij [24 July 1482]

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Creator:: Konrad, von Megenberg, 1309–1374
Title(s):: Das Buch der Natur.
Published/Created:: Augspurg : Anthonius Sorg, an mittwoche[n] nächst vor sant Jacobs tag ... M.cccc.lxxxij [24 July 1482]
Physical Description:: [482] p. : ill. (woodcuts) : 27 cm. (fol.)
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0335
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17228653
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Free translation and adaptation of Thomas de Cantimpré's De natura rerum. "The Latin text is reorganized in the German version, some sections being expanded and others contracted."--G. Sarton. Introduction to the history of science, v.3, p. 817.
Colophon (p. [480]): "Hie [sic] endet sich das büch der natur d[es] getruckt v[nd] volendet hat Anthonius Sorg in der keÿserlichen statt Augspurg an mittwoche[n] nächst vor sant Jacobs tag. Do man zalt nach cristi gepurt M.cccc.lxxxij jar."
Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00845000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C845
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 4045*
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M16434
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, p. 349
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3782
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0335: Imperfect: eight leaves only. Includes one leaf of text only (107), and seven leaves bearing full page-woodcuts: leaf [3], a man examined by two doctors; leaf [28], the planets; leaf [81], birds; leaf [112], creatures of the ocean; leaf [118], fishes; leaf [139], insects; and leaf [152], trees. Woodcuts are hand-colored, except for leaf [3]. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:: Incunabula in Yale Library.
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:: Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Hand coloring.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:: Thomas, de Cantimpré, approximately 1200–approximately 1270. De natura rerum.
Sorg, Anton, active 15th century, printer.
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