Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit prohemiu[m] de proprietatibus reru[m] fratris bartholomei anglici de ordine fratru[m] minorum.
Printed in the type attributed to Schilling 1:100G.
Date derived from Caxton's time spent in Cologne, see his Prologue to the Recuyell (ISTC il00117000).
Collation: [1-24¹⁰ 25⁸]: 248 leaves, leaf [25]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio
William Caxton's involvement is based upon de Worde's statement in his edition of the text (ISTC ib00143000) that Caxton first printed the text at Cologne.
Pinholes in top center and bottom center margins, 2.7 and 7 cm resp. from edge of text block, stops at end of quire 7.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39 x 27.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [25]/8 (blank). Leaf [16]/4.7 is a resetting.
De proprietatibus rerum
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (some yellow rubrication on conjugate leaves in quires 18-20 and 23); Roman numeral foliation in top center of the recto leaves and Arabic book numbers in the bottom center. Alpha-numeric quire signature, mostly trimmed. Annotations: Minimal notations in text.