Editorial note — A MONSIEVR
Reading edition
The original text did not have page numbers. Instead, the first two or three recto (right) pages of each 8-page signature were numbered as A, Aii, Aiii... Page numbers added by the transcriber, including all verso (left) pages, are shown in smaller type. In the original text, folio numbers matched the font of each page’s body text, with italicized pages in the form Aij, Aiij... They have been regularized to Aiii form for this e-text.
Most pages of the book have one or more handwritten notations, generally in the margins. Although not technically part of the book, they may be of interest for some readers, so they have been included in the e-text. Those that originally appeared in the margins are given as sidenotes with links to an image. Longer handwritten passages, and those from otherwise blank pages, are shown below. Expanded ligatures such as [par] are shown in brackets. Some transcriptions are extremely conjectural.
The marginal citation “1 Tim. 3” appears to have been printed in the original book.
Blank page facing title page:
Veri studium et patriæ caritatem. [Signature:] E. d’...ville
Above title:
M. Martinus Besardus Sui... D. D. M. Benedicto Franco Salodocix, ...æ anno [domini] 1556
Final page, above illustration:
Catalogus libro[rum] latino[rum] sine ordinẽ alphabeti. Cata. libro[rum] anonimo[rum] 1.E. ... fol. 3 Cata. lib. Gallico[rum] sine auctores 2. E. Cat. li. Gal. anonimo[rum] 4. E.
Blank page after final page:
[list of authors’ names from Catalog]
In longer passages such as the Latin introduction, about half of all lines ended with a split word. Some words were printed without a connecting hyphen; they have not been individually marked but are listed here:
animarum no/strarum medicos veluti mor/tiferum quoddam poculum eiúsque re/gibus, ad hæc totis eloquen/tiæ viribus deformatàm, agni/turus, in qua mille tempestate floren/tissima erat penè or/bis consensu Luthe/rano longè nocentiora euidentioribus argu/mentis, ipsi ta/men miro quodam supercilio veris autho/rum nominibus suppressis ma/gnates, & prĩcipes prouin/ciarũ præsides
visi/tation des malades d’administrer les sa/crements en leglise