Title from incipit (leaf [2]/2r): Hÿe nach volget das půch der natur...
Colophon (leaf [32]/6r): Hie endet sich das bůch der natur. Das hat getruckt un[d] volpracht hanns Bämler zů Augspurg An möntag vor aller heÿligen tag Anno [etc] in dem .lxxv. jar. Deo gracias.
Printed in Bämler's types 1:140G and 2:138G.
Collation: [1²; 2¹² 3-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11⁶ 12-14¹⁰ 15-17⁸ 18-26¹⁰ 27-28⁸ 29-30¹⁰ 31-32⁸]: 294 leaves, leaves [32]/7-8 blank. Variant collation in GW; BMC places Register (quire [1]) last.
Paper format: Chancery folio
12 full-page woodcuts.
Incipit printed in red.
Colophon is printed in blind but left justified with text block.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [32]/8 (blank), perhaps used as rear pastedown. Staining to margins, affecting some text.
PML 135 (another copy) was deaccessioned in 1926 and donated by J.P. Morgan to Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, 12 May 1926 (see annotated Bennett cat.)
Buch der Natur.
Hand decoration: Woodcuts and some printed initials hand colored. Annotations: No notations in text.