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<dl><dd>Title from incipit (leaf 2a2 recto)</dd>
<dd>"Caii Plinii Secundi Naturalis historiae liber ..."--Leaf 2a3 recto, line 7</dd>
<dd>Imprint from Goff</dd>
<dd>Signatures: 2a-2b⁸ a-b⁸ [cursive d]⁸ e⁶ f-z⁸ &amp;⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-I⁸ 2I⁶</dd>
<dd>Leaves printed on both sides; 53-54 lines per page</dd>
<dd>Guide letters</dd>
<dd>Goff</dd>
<dd>Hain</dd>
<dd>Proctor</dd>
<dd>extracted picklist</dd>
<dd>SCDIRB and SCNHRB have one copy each</dd>
<dd>SCDIRB copy 39088007406945 imperfect: lacking leaf 2a1 (blank?). Leaves 2a2-2a8 and 2b1-2b2 are lacking and have been replaced by old ms. text pages in ink; leaf x4 is misbound immediately before leaf x3; the bottom third of leaf2I6, including colophon [?], has been torn out and replaced with a blank piece of paper</dd>
<dd>SCDIRB copy has ms. annotations (some affected by cropped margins)</dd>
<dd>SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner</dd>
<dd>SCDIRB copy has illegible ms. provenance note on leaf 2I6 recto</dd>
<dd>SCDIRB copy bound in old full vellum over paper boards; blue sprinkled edges; title inked on spine</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy 39088011698529 imperfect: lacking leaf 2a1 (blank?); leaf a1 cropped at bottom</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has copious early ms. notations (in different inks) throughout; rubricated</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy bound in modern vellum with raised bands</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Natural history; Incunabula</div>
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<dl><dd>Pliny, the Elder</dd>
<dd>Bayer, Frederick M., former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Burndy Library, donor. DSI</dd></dl></div>
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