[932] pages : 27 cm (folio)

Leaves [1], [246] and [466] are blanks

Title from first printed page (aa1r)

Imprint from colophon on leaf 2E6v; full colophon reads: Hier eyndet dat boeck welck ghehieten is bartholomeus vanden proprieteyten der dinghen inden iaer ons heren M.CCCC. en[de] lxxxv. opte[n] heylighen kersauent. Ende is gheprint ende oeck mede voleyndt te haerlem in hollant ter eren godes ende om leringhe der menschen van mi Meester Iacop Belleart ghebore[n] van zerixzee

Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.9 x 19.5 cm. Text printed in double columns; 40 lines per col.; col. width: 6.6 cm.; area of text: 20 x 14.1 cm. With initial spaces, guide-letters, and signatures; without foliation and catchwords

Includes 11 full-page woodcut illustrations (approx. 200 x 140 mm. each): Almighty God seated in glory (a1v); the creation of angels and fall of demons (a8v); the creation of Eve and anatomical man (c4v); the ages of man, a physician and surgeon attending patients (m7v); the earth and the spheres ([long s]7v); occupations of the months (u2v); birds (y7v); fishes ([z with a crossbar]7v); a landscape showing a river and towns, etc. (A1v); trees and plants (F1v); and animals and reptiles (Q2v)

Printer's device (2E7r) is a gryphon, supporting a blank shield; above, a smaller shield bearing the arms of Haarlem suspended by a loop from white interlacing strap-work on a black ground. Device is surrounded by a four-piece border decorated with birds, foliage, and grotesques. Cf. BM 15th cent., IX, p. 101

Signatures: 2a⁶ 2b⁴ a-r⁸ [rounded r]⁸ [long s]⁸ s-t⁸ v⁸ u⁸ w⁸ x-z⁸ [z with crossbar]⁸ [con]⁶ ē⁶ A-V⁸ W⁸ X-Y⁸ 2A-2B⁸ 2C-2D⁶ 2E⁸. (2a1, ē6, and 2E8 blank)

With table of contents: 2a2r-2b4r

Many copies have Initials supplied in red or blue; large initials in red, blue, and green. Paragraph marks in red throughout

Woodcuts colored by hand in many copies

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