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=100 0\$aPliny,$cthe Elder.
=240 10$aNaturalis historia
=245 10$aCaii Plinii Secundi naturalis historiae liber primus :$bCaius Plinius Secundus Novocomensis .T. Vespasiano suo salutem. Praefatio.
=260 \\$aVenice :$bThomas de Blavis, de Alexandria,$c3 November 1491.
=300 \\$a[308] leaves :$bDevice (woodcut) ;$c295 mm. (fol.)
=500 \\$aTitle from caption in capitals at incipit on leaf aa3 recto.
=500 \\$aImprints from colophon on leaf II4r, which reads in full: Caii Plinii [in capitals] Secu[n]di Naturalis hystoriæ Liber trigesimus septimus & ultimus Finit. Ve=netiis impressus opera & impensa Thomæ de blauis de Alexa[n]dria. Anno Natiuitatis Domini .M.CCCC.LXXXXI. Die .III. Mensis Nouembris. Regna[n]te Augustino Barbadico inclito Venetorum Principe.
=500 \\$aEdited by Philippus Beroaldus.
=500 \\$aPhilippus Beroaldus's corrections on leaves II4 verso - II5 verso are extracted from his letter to Nicolaus Ravacaldus (fl. 1465-1477), canon of the cathedral of Parma, printed by Stephanus Corallus in Parma in 1476: see Bod-inc P-366.
=500 \\$aPrinter's woodcut device B on leaf II6r. For printer's device, see BM 15th cent., V, 316.
=500 \\$aPrinted running titles.
=500 \\$aSpaces left blank, with printed guide letters.
=500 \\$aTables of contents in two columns on leaves aa4 verso - bb8 recto.
=500 \\$aSignatures: aa-bb⁸ a-d⁸ ²d⁸ e⁶ f-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-I⁸ II⁶. Leaf aa1 unsigned.
=505 0\$aGaius Caecilius Plinius Secundus, [Letter addressed to] "Marcus" [i.e. Baebius Macer], aa2r; Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. De viris illustribus, extract, aa2r-v; Gaius Caecilius Plinius Secundus, [Letter addressed to] "Tacitus", aa2v; Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus. Apologeticum, extract (cap. 2.6-7), aa2v-aa3r; Eusebius Caesariensis. Chronicon, extract, aa3r; Gaius Plinius Secundus. Historia naturalis, Books 1-37, edited by Philippus Beroaldus, aa3r-II4r, including tables of contents, aa4r and aa4v-bb8r; colophon, II4r; Philippus Beroaldus, "Correctiones", II4v-II5v; Printer's register and device, II6r.
=510 4\$aBM 15th cent.,$cV, 319
=510 4\$aBN cat. des incun.,$cP-796
=510 4\$aGoff,$cP796
=510 4\$aGW,$cM34324 (with digital facsimile)
=510 4\$aHain-Copinger,$c13097
=510 4\$aISTC,$cip00796000
=510 4\$aKlebs,$c786.11
=510 4\$aOates,$c1880
=561 \\$aProvenance: Inscribed "Zane Matteo e questo" on leaf q2 verso, Italy, Venice [?], 16th century, unidentified. Inscribed "Ex libris Ex[cellentissimi] D[omini] Bart[holomaei] Jenari [?] J3 : 2" on second upper free endpaper, Italy, 16th century, unidentified. Marked "B no 255" in brown ink on upper right corner of leaf aa2 recto, 17th [?] century. Inscribed "Ex lib[ris] : Roberti Gray Colleg[ii] Med[icinae] Lond[inii ?] et Edinburgi socii 1707" in pencil on leaf aa2 recto, i.e. physician Robert Gray of London. Given by John Martyn, Cambridge Professor of Botany, to the Cambridge Botanical Museum, donation note "Bib[liothecae] Bot[anici] Horti Cantabr[igiensis] d[ono] d[edit] J[ohannes] Martyn" on leaf aa1 recto. Inscribed "Sold to the University Library Oct. 1865. C[harles] C[ardale] Babington, Prof. of Botany" on the Cambridge Botanical Museum book label pasted inside upper board. Old library shelfmark "AB.11.87" in ink on leaf aa1 recto.$5UkCU
=563 \\$aBinding: Quarter leather over bevelled beechwood boards, sewn on three double-split whittawed leather bands, with endbands with whittawed leather core, parchment manuscript fragments used as guards to first and last gathering, grooves for two fastening straps and clasps at fore-edge of upper board, traces of two trilobate brass catches at fore-edge of lower board, and manuscript title "Plinius" in capitals on lower board, Italy, late 15th or early 16th century; rebacked. Parchment fragments from a Latin Bible [text from 1 Macchabeos 3.1-31 on guard to first gathering], Italy, 14th century, with initial in red.$5UkCU
=599 \\$aAnnotations: A few marginal notes in cursive hand, Italy, 16th century. Marginal manuscript notes in cursive hand, England, 17th century, including a note on leaf E7 verso citing the commentary by Johannes Harduinus [i.e. Jean Hardouin] published in1685.$5UkCU
=650 backslash_zero_replaced$aNatural history$vPre-Linnean works.
=655 \7$aWooden boards (Binding)$zItaly$y15th century.$2rbbin$5UkCU
=655 \7$aManuscript waste (Binding)$zItaly$y14th century.$2rbbin$5UkCU
=655 \7$aAnnotations (Provenance)$zItaly$y16th century.$2rbprov$5UkCU
=655 \7$aAnnotations (Provenance)$zEngland$y17th century.$2rbprov$5UkCU
=655 \7$aAnnotations (Provenance)$zEngland$y18th century.$2rbprov$5UkCU
=655 \7$aBookplate (Provenance)$zEngland$y18th century.$2rbprov$5UkCU
=700 0\$aPliny,$cthe Younger.
=700 1\$aBaebius Macer, Marcus,$dactive 100-117,$ecorrespondent.
=700 1\$aTacitus, Cornelius,$ecorrespondent.
=700 1\$aBeroaldo, Filippo,$d1453-1505,$eeditor.
=700 1\$aBlavis, Thomas de,$dactive 1476-1491,$eprinter.
=700 0\$aZane Matteo,$d16th century,$eformer owner.$5UkCU
=700 1\$aJenari, Bartholomaeus,$d16th century,$eformer owner.$5UkCU
=700 1\$aGray, Robert,$dactive 1664-1722,$eformer owner.$5UkCU
=700 1\$aMartyn, John,$d1699-1768,$eformer owner.$5UkCU
=700 1\$aBabington, Charles Cardale,$d1808-1895,$eassociated name.
=700 0\$aSuetonius,$dapproximately 69-approximately 122.$tDe viris illustribus.$kSelections.
=700 0\$aTertullian,$dapproximately 160-approximately 230.$tApologeticum.$kSelections.
=700 0\$aEusebius,$cof Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea,$dapproximately 260-approximately 340.$tChronicle.$lLatin.$kSelections.
=710 2\$aUniversity of Cambridge.$bDepartment of Plant Sciences,$eformer owner.$5UkCU.
=752 \\$aItaly$dVenice.
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