Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber’s Note:
This e-text contains some letters with unusual diacritics:
ã ẽ ĩ õ ũ (tilde on any vowel) ǒ ǔ (hacek / “caron”) ę (“e caudata” = æ) œ (oe ligature)
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In addition to the ordinary page numbers, the printed text labeled the recto (odd) pages of the first two leaves of each 8-page signature. These will appear in the right margin as A, A2...