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Publication Details and Register

This work of Dionysius the Areopagite Dionysius the Areopagite: a 5th–6th century theologian whose writings on mystical theology were highly influential in the Renaissance. was printed in

The shop of Filippo Giunta Filippo Giunta: a prominent Florentine printer and bookseller, member of the famous Giunta family of printers active in Venice, Florence, and Lyon., bookseller, in the year

of the health-bringing incarnation original: "salutiferae incarnationis" — a common Latin phrasing for the year of our Lord (A.D.)., 1516. The

24th of July, in the fourth year of the Papacy

of Leo the Tenth Pope Leo X, born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, was head of the Catholic Church from 1513 to 1521..

a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s t

u x y z & ✠ All are quaternions quaternions: a bookbinding term meaning that each section of the book consists of four folded sheets of paper, resulting in eight leaves or sixteen pages..

The list of letters above is a "register." In early printing, this was a guide for the bookbinder to ensure all the gathered sheets were present and in the correct order before sewing the book together.