Edited by Jacobus de Maude and Johannes de Lalanda.
"The first edition. The letter of Lalanda to Vitrificis on 162a refers to the book as 'optimo et famosissimo caractere impressum. nam ex incliti viri officina cui merito omnes tenemur ... expositum [sic]' and as corrected 'per ... Iacobum de Maude artium magistrum et in medicina licentiatum Parisiensem' and by Lalanda himself."--Cf. BM 15th cent.
"Epistola ..."--Last leaf.
Colophon (leaf CLIX verso) reads: Preclarissimi opus Ioha[n]nis de tornamira doctoris famosissimi atq[ue] decani p[re]clari studij montispessulani imp[re]ssum lugd[unium]. p[er] Ioha[n]nem trechsel alemanu[m] artis impressorie mag[ist]r[u]m Anno n[ost]re salutis Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimo nonagesimo die v[er]o decimaseptima me[n]sis Iunij finit feliciter.
Signatures: a-f8 ff8 g-s8 t10.
Chancery quarto, text printed in 2 columns; 51 lines, plus foliation line; col. width: 60 mm.; area of text: 177 (188) x 122 mm. With initial spaces; without catchwords. Printer's device in red ink on verso of leaf CLIX.
Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Lacking final leaf. Binding: 19th/20th century blue goatskin with blind tooling on upper and lower boards and gold tooling on spine. With occasional ms annotations. Inscription on verso of t.p. (erased) 'philippu[s] stubbes' 'pret iiii s'. Inscription upside down on f.xxxvi recto (partly erased) '[Phillippe Stubbes?] hys booke geven him of maister Charles curat off Rowlaye in the countie of Stafforde and coste firste iiii shillinges in'. Another below colophon 'Sum phillippi stubes et amicorum liber pret iiii s'. Inscription on t.p. 'Petri Eckersalli Liber' and '1601'. Catalogue number of Sir Hans Sloane on t.p. 'C.1301'. British Museum stamp on leaf 1 recto and stamp on verso 'British Museum sale duplicate 1787'.