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This golden work of Dionysius Dionysius: Dionysius the Areopagite, a 5th–6th century theologian whose writings on the "Celestial Hierarchy" and mystical theology were central to Renaissance thought. was printed in

the house of Filippo Giunta Filippo Giunta: a prominent Florentine printer and bookseller. The Giunta family operated one of the most important printing networks in Europe, with branches in Florence, Venice, and Lyon., bookseller, in the year

of the health-bringing incarnation original: "salutifere incarnationis" — a traditional Latin expression for the year of our Lord (A.D.)., 1516. On the

29th day of July. In the fourth year of the Papacy

of Leo the Tenth Pope Leo X, born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, reigned from 1513 to 1521. This book was printed in his home city of Florence during his reign..

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 technical term for bookbinders, indicating that each section (signature) of the book consists of four sheets of paper folded to create eight leaves (16 pages).

The sequence of bold letters above is a "register." In the era of the hand-press, this served as a checklist for the bookbinder to ensure that all gathered sections were present and in the correct alphabetical order before the book was sewn together.