To the Most Illustrious and Distinguished

LORD

LORD FRANCISCO JUAN

DE ROBLES,

FROM THE COUNTS OF ANNAPPES,

Provost, Chancellor, and Conservator The Conservator of the University of Leuven was a royal judicial official tasked with defending the university's legal privileges.

of Leuven,

OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL

Great Administrator.

MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND DISTINGUISHED

LORD,

AMONG his recent serious works, during these pleasant days, my excellent father This refers to the scholar Erycius Puteanus (1574–1646), the author of the work. was in a pleasant mood, and he has embraced ANAGRAM-MAKING original: "Anagrammatismum"; the art of rearranging letters in a name to discover new meanings, a subject untouched by others, with his wit and style. He turned to these delights and was able to find a philosophy within them; he turned to leisure and yet found himself occupied. The occasion and cause for writing this came from letters recently intercepted; because