| Provenance: | Copy 1, volumes 1-2, 3: Manuscript shelf marks: Phil. 66; Phil 67; Phil 68.
Copy 1, volume 4: Manuscript shelf mark: No. 26.
Copy 1, volume 2: Former owner's annotation on leaf [9], first sequence.
Copy 1, volume 4, part 1: Former owner's annotations on title page.
Copy 1, volumes 1-2, 3, 5: Armorial stamp: Bernensis Bibliotheca.
Copy 1, volume 4, part 1: Illegible stamp.
Copy 1, volume 4, part 1: Stamp: MD[?].
Copy 2, volume 4, part 1: Decorative manuscript border aded to leaves 1 and 226.
Copy 2, volume 4, part 1: Former owners' manuscript annotations in Greek in 2[?] hands.
Copy 2, volume 4, part 2: Extensive former owners' annotations, chiefly in Greek in 2[?] hands; one dated: 1655; annotations partially trimmed on edges.
Copy 1, volume 4, part 1: Blind tooled red morocco over wooden boards; evidence of bosses, catches and clasps (all missing); manuscript title in Greek and Latin "Theophrastus De hista. plantaru[m]" on paper pasted to cover.
Copy 1, volumes 1-3, 5: Binding: Blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards; brass bosses, catches and clasps (volume 3 missing 1 clasp; volume 5 missing both clasps); formerly chained binding, holes on top rear board for chains; manuscript cover and spine titles.
Copy 1, volume 4, part 2: Binding: Modern tan cloth over boards.
Copy 2, volume 4, part 1: Binding: Rebound in tan cloth over boards; binding fragments retained. See Special Collections circulation desk for additional information.
Copy 2, volume 4, part 2: Binding: Speckled calf over boards.
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| Notes: | Title devised by cataloger.
Colophon, volume 1: Impressum Venetiis dexteritate Alti Manuci Romani calendis Nouembris M.CCCC.LXXXXV. Concessum est eidem Aldo inuentori ab illustrissimo Senatu Veneto ne quis queat imprimere neq[ue] hunc librum, neq[ue] aceteros quos isipse impresserit, neq[ue] eius uti inuento, sub poena ut in gratia.
Colophon, volume 2: Excriptum Venetiis manu stamena i[n] domo Aldi Manutii Romani, & Graecorum studiosi, mense Februario M.IIID. Impetratu[m] est a dominis Venetis ide[m] in hoc quod in caeteris impressis Graeco dominostrae.
Colophon, volume 3, leaf 457 verso: Venetiis in domo Aldi mense Ianuario MIIID. Et in hoc concessum nobis, quod in caeteris nostris.
Colophon, volume 4: Excriptum Venetiis in domo Aldi Manutii cale[n]dis Iunii. MIIID. Et in hoc i[m]petratu[m] e[st] a dominis Venetis quod i[n] caeteris nostris Graece i[m]pressis.
Colophon, volume 5: Venetia M.IID. mense Iunio. Apud Aldum, et hoc cum priuilegio.
Signatures: volume 1: A-C⁸ [Delta]⁸ E-K⁸ L-N⁶ a-c⁸ d-e⁶ f-i⁸ [kappa]⁸ l-q⁸ r-s⁶; volume 2: *⁸ [titled cross]⁸ [maltese cross]⁸ [os]⁸ a[alpha]-z[psi]⁸ &[omega]⁸ A-B⁸ C[Gamma]⁶ D[Delta]-H[Theta]⁸ I⁸ K[Kappa]⁶; volume 3: 2a[alpha]-2z[psi]¹⁰ 2&[omega]¹⁰ 2[Alpha]-2[Pi]¹⁰ 2[Rho]¹⁰(chi1+2[Rho]1, 2[Rho]10+chi1) 2[Sigma]-2[Phi]¹⁰ 2[Chi]⁸ [tilted cross]⁸; volume 4: pi1 3a[alpha]-3z[psi]⁸ 3&[omega]⁸ 3A-3B⁸ 3C[Gamma]⁸ 3D[Delta]¹⁰; ²3[Alpha]a-3[Mu]m⁸ 3[Nu]n-3[XI]o¹⁰ á[alpha]-b́[beta]⁶ [alpha]a-[delta]d⁸ [epsilon]e¹⁰; 3A[alpha]-3O[xi]⁸ 3P[omicron]¹⁰; volume 5: 4[alpha]-4[iota]¹⁰ 4[kappa]⁴ 4[lambda]-4[phi]¹⁰ 4[chi]⁶ 4[psi]¹² 4[omega]¹⁰ 4A-4B¹⁰ 4G⁶ 4D-4I¹⁰ 4K¹².
Volume 1: [234] leaves; volume 2: [32], 268 leaves; volume 3: 400, [1], 401-410, [1], 411-457, [9] leaves; volume 4: [1], 226; 116, 12, 42, 121, [1] leaves; volume 5: 209, 19, that is, 13, 210-316, [1] leaves.
In some copies of volume 4, part 2 the section of 42 pages is bound before the section of 12 pages.
30 lines; Haebler, types, volume 1: I:146Gr, 3:108R, 4:81R, volume 2, 4-5: I:146Gr, 2:114R, 7L114Gr, volume 3: I:146Gr, 2:114R; woodcut initials and head-pieces.
Cancel slip with additional line of text pasted beneath line 30 on leaf 100 verso, volume 3.
Numerous errors in foliation.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ia00959000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 02334
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 1657*
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry A-959
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, pages 553-558
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entries 5547, 5555, 5553, 5556, 5565
Klebs, A.C. Incunabula scientifica et medica, entry 83.1
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, entries 2162, 2163, 2164, 2172, 2170, 2173, 2174, 2182
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, entry A-384
Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, entry 1175
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry A-698
Greek; preliminaries in Latin.
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