Title from colophon (leaf 217 verso).

Leaf 1 recto: Capitula tractat[us] [pri]mi. Libri [pri]mi Incipiunt.

Leaf 3 verso: [I]llustrissimi principis regis francorum deuotissimo confessori domino Michaeli diuina prouidencia seu prouide[n]te gracia ... quem zophilogium interpretor.

Imprint from ISTC; Polain dates not after 1474.

Signatures: [1]-[4]ℓ° [5]€(+1) [6]€ [7]-[9]ℓ° [10]¡ [11]-[12]€ [13]-[14]ℓ° [15]-[16]€ [17]-[20]ℓ° [21]€ [22]ℓ° [23]-[24]€ ([24]7-8 blank).

The recto of leaf [97] is blank "which the printer appears accidentally to have passed over."--BM 15th cent., vol. 1, p. 61 (IB. 643).

Chancery folio. 35 lines; area of text: 178 x 105 mm. With initial spaces and some guide-letters. Without foliation, signatures, and catchwords.

Burke Library copy: Bound second with: Pharetra doctorum et philosophorum. [Nuremberg : Friedrich Creussner, 1473-1474?] -- Hannapes, Nicolas de, patriarch of Jerusalem. Auctoritates utriusque Testamenti. [Strassburg: Heinrich Eggestein, about 1470-72].

Burke Library copy: Rubricated throughout, with large initials supplied in red; some decorative initials in red, blue, green, and brown. Title at head of first leaf of text in MS: Zophilogium.

Goff M-38

Hain-Copinger 10472

Klebs 595.2

Proctor 241

BM 15th cent. I, p. 61 (IB. 643)

BSB-Ink. M-21

ISTC im00038000

GW M17664

Gatch. Van Ess catalog B-31b