Liber secretoru[m]. Alberti Magni De virtutibus herbabru[m] lapidum & animalium quorundam, Eiusdemq[ue] liber de mirabilis mundi, etiam de quibusdam effectus causatis a quibusdam animalibus &c.

8vo: 30 ff. (ff. D1 and last. bl. missing, min. browning and soiling, some ms. annot., sm. tears in bl. marg.).

17th-c. vellum, flat spine (soiling, spine sl. splitting with sm. parts missing, recased).

Unrecorded Parisian edition of this widely disseminated and extr. popular text, falsely attributed to the Dominican theologian Albertus Magnus (ca. 1200-1280). The typographical mark on title was used by Jean Petit around 1510 (Renouard). The layout of each page (except title) and the types are very close to an edition attributed to Jean Marchant, dated ca. 1505/1510 (the only known copy is conserved at BSB Munich and incomplete). Is this a shared edition or one served as "exemplar" of the other? Jean Petit also printed around 1510 the "Secreta mulierum et virorum nuperrine correcta" by Albertus Magnus. In our copy, a contemporary hand added manuscript signatures and did not realise that f. D1 was missing, copying on the verso of C8 the first word of the next page.
Ref. Renouard, Marques typographiques, 888. - GW 0065110N (Marchant ed.). - Not in BP16, Renouard, Inventaire chronologique, USTC, ISTC, GW, Adams.