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Sabundus (Raimundus). Theologia naturalis, sive liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura eius inquantum homo. Et de his quae sunt ei necessaria ad conoscendum seipsum et deum, et omne debitum ad quod homo tenetur et obligatur tam deo quam primo, Strassburg: Martin Flach, 7 February 1501, 162 leaves, signatures [pi]6 a8 b-y6 z8 zeta6 antisigma8, text in double column, 50 lines and headline, gothic types, printed guide letters, contents toned, small intercolumnar worm-track throughout, frequently touching text to loss of a letter from quire h, similar worm-tracks in right-hand column of leaves pi1-3 and quires z-antisigma and in fore margins from signature s5 occasionally touching side-notes, tide-marks to head of gutter in quire f, upper fore corners of quires i-l and t, and fore margin of quire antisigma (with shallow area of loss to final leaf not affecting text), tide-mark touching text in signature antisigma 1, contemporary marginalia to t1 verso, t3 and x5 recto, and y4 recto and verso, free endpapers excised, contemporary manuscript catch-title to top edge, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, top spine compartment restored in vellum, folio (28.2 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: Adam Haussman (ownership inscriptions dated 1516 to front pastedowns); Couvent Notre-Dame de Nazareth des pénitents réformés du tiers-ordre de Saint-François, Paris (ink-stamp 'Conv. Nazar' and inscriptions to title-page and second leaf) VD16 R 173; this edition not in Adams (Koberger's 1502 edition being the earliest there listed). Rare post-incunable edition of the first work of natural theology to be named as such, first printed c.1484/5 (see Blum, Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism, p. 92). An important elaboration of the 'book of nature' metaphor, the work was an influence on Montaigne, whose French translation appeared in 1569. Raimundus Sabundus, also Ramon Sibiuda (d.1436), was a Catalan Franciscan scholar who taught medicine, philosophy and theology at the university of Toulouse, where during the 1430s he held the position of rector.