Ortus sanitatis : de herbis et plantis, de animalibus et reptilibus, de auibus et volatilibus, de piscibus et natatilibus (tibus), de lapidibus [et] in terre venis nasce[ntibus], de vrinis et earu[m] speciebus, tabula medicinalis cum directorio generali per omnes tractatus.
Publication statement from Incunabula short title catalogue.
Incunabula short title catalogue and VD 16 date to approximately 1507; Goff, Proctor, and Klebs date to approximately 1499; Proctor attributes to the press of Heinrich Quentell in Cologne.
Leaf 203 recto: Sequuntur alii tractatus. Primus de animalibus, secundus de auibus, tertius de piscibus, quartus de lapidibus.
Signatures: a⁸ b-k⁶ l⁸ m-r⁶ s⁸ t-z⁶ A⁶ B⁸ C-E⁶ F⁸ G-I⁶ K⁸ L-M⁶ N⁸ O-R⁶ S⁸ T-Bb⁶ Cc⁸ Dd-Ee⁶ Ff⁸ Gg⁶ Hh⁴ Ii-Ll⁶.
Printed in 2 columns, tables printed in 4 columns; 55 lines; capital spaces, some with guide letters; woodcut capitals; 4 full page woodcut illustrations.
Includes indexes.
PML copy is Tractatus de Urinis only (quire Gg-Hh).
Hand decoration: Rubricated, woodcut initials highlighted in red, red paragraph marks, underlining, and capitl strokes; woodcuts hand colored. Annotations: Partially interleaved with considerable contemporary notations throughout, in a German hand (same notations in all three works bound together).