um inspecturis
aut inscrutandis. Que quide_m_ supradicta facilit_er_ possunt inveniri
p_er_ indice_m_ alphabeticu_m_ p_er_uigila_n_ti studio co_n_fectu_m_ &
p_er_ ordine_m_ l_itte_raru_m_ redactu_m_... _Fol. 1^b_, [Full page
woodcut of the king's arms crowned, supported by a dragon and a
greyhound, with a portcullis on either side and a rose and two angels
above.] _Fol. 2^a_: Intrationu_m_ libri Index Alphabetic_us_. _Fol.
10^b_: Finis tabule Intrationum. _Fol. 193^a_, COLOPHON: Explicit opus
excellentissimu_m_ & perutile in se continens multas materias o_mn_ibus
leg_is_ ho_min_ib_us_ p_er_q_uam_ necessarias nouiter Impressum,
correctum, emendatum, & no_n_ minimo labore reuisum London_i_ in vico
vulgariter nu_n_cupato Fletstrete in officina ere ac impensis honesti
viri Ricardi Pynson Regis Impressoris moram suam trahentis sub signo
diui Georgii Anno n_ost_re redemptionis .M.CCCCC.x. Die vero vltima
Mensis Februarii. _Fol. 193^b_, [PRINTER'S DEVICE.] _Fol. 194, blank._

Folio. Sign. Aa^6, Bb^4, a-z, &, 9, A-E^6, F^4. 194 leaves, the
last blank, 11-193 numbered i-clxxxv, but with the omission of li
and liv and other irregularities. Gothic letter, 54 lines to the
page, with marginal side-headings. The title, occupying seventeen
lines of bold heavy-faced type, is printed in red and black and in
the form of an inverted triangle. The _Index Alphabeticus_ is
introduced by a ten-line initial A with a rose above and a
portcullis below the middle bar, found also in the same printer's
Sarum missal of 1520. The other divisions of the index have mostly
four-line woodcut initials, some of grotesque pattern. Five-line
space with guide-letter for the first initial of the text.
Ornaments of four patterns, repeated singly or in combination, are
used to lengthen out the frequent short end lines of paragraphs in
order to give more solidity to the appearance of the page. Three of
the same ornaments are found also on the title-page of Whitinton's
_Vulgaria_, printed by W. de Worde in 1521. Ames-Dibdin ii, 441.

In the present copy the index (sign. Aa. 2-6, Bb. 1-4) is separated from
the title (Aa. 1) and placed at the end of the volume. Name of _Joh[=e]s
Coningesby_ written in a sixteenth century hand on the first page of
both text and index. The device is the fourth of Pynson's seven devices
and was in use 1496-1513. Allusion is made in the colophon to an earlie