Dialogus creaturarum / [Nicolaus].

Gouda : G. Leeu, 1480.

104 unnumbered leaves (first blank) : woodcut ; (folio)

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/100/60

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/100/61

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/100/62

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/100/63

Although this work has generally been attributed to Nicolaus Pergamenus it appears that the author was actually Maino de' Maineri, a physician of Milan who died in 1370.

Copy 1. Note: 4 leaves wanting and supplied in early manuscript. Binding: orange paper over boards (repaired and rebacked) with gilt armorial centrepiece on upper cover and shield with inscription 'Ex Bibliotheca Bünauiana' on lower cover. Inscription by Charles Fairfax Murray on endpaper 'I purchased this copy from Wm Morris who had a more perfect duplicate'. Bookplate of Charles Fairfax Murray. From the library of Kurt Wolff, purchased at Frankfurt in 1926.

Poynter 393

Campbell 560

St N131

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