BMC and Goff assign the printing to Conrad Fyner, Esslingen. The printer was first distinguished by Scholderer in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1950), p.168, where he assigns it to the Printer of the 1472 Aquinas 'Summa'; reprinted in Fifty Essays, pp.224-28. Ohly (Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1962) argues for Heinrich Eggestein as printer; CIBN P-162 and Bod-inc P-169 also assign doubtfully to Eggestein.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6¹²(+1* and **); 7¹⁰ 8¹²(+7*); 9-12¹⁰ 13¹²; 14-16¹⁰ 17⁸ 18¹⁰ 19⁴]: 194 leaves, leaves [8]/1, [13]/3, and [19]/3-4 blank.
Copy sold in Stuttgarter Antiquariat 134 (1986), Nr. 14 rubricated in 1474 (see GW).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML Checklist assigns to Esslingen: Fyner, ca. 1475 but with a note to switch to "Strassburg: anonymous (but possibly Eggestein)." ChL number based on Esslingen/Fyner attribution.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20.7 cm
PML copy with index (quire [19]) bound first.
PML volume includes three manuscripts texts on 12 quires at end.
Printed in type 96G.
Quire [19] (index) sometimes bound first (Bodleian and PML copies).
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red outline lombards and capital strokes (quires [1] and part of [2] only). Lombard on leaf [2]/1r with initials "K R S." Annotations: Contemporary annotations, headlines, and manicules in first few quires only. Contemporary contents of volume on first fly leaf with heading "Text[us] ph[iloso]pho[rum]." Inscription "Dabrius(?)" on front pastedown and first fly recto.