Summa Ioannis Valensis de regimine uite humane, seu, Margarita docto[rum] ad omne p[ro]positum : p[ro]ut patet in tabula.John of Wales, fl. 1260.anno Domini MCCCCXCVI die penultima Iulij [30 July 1496]Binding: sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps set in channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. Beaded headbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves and nailed. Stubs, about 40 mm. wide, of the vellum ms. endleaves are tucked under strips of similar ms. glued at head and tail inside the boards but are not adhered. Covered in dark red/brown goatskin with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with a cross made up of fleurons on a pedestel in a central panel on the front board and a globe [?] on the back board; knotwork frames on both boards. Four fastenings, the catches on the lower board and the straps attached with star-headed nails, Greek workshop?Bought in Dec. 1987; the Edwin J. Beinecke fund.Bound with: Figure Biblie clarissimi uiri Fratris Antonii de Ra[m]pengolis Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Impressum Venetijs : Per Georgium de Arriuabenis Mantuanu[m], 1496 die XV. mensis Nouembris. (1988 834)Imprint from colophon.text