A horizontal ornamental band features repeating stylized floral and scrollwork motifs, a decorative element typical of early seventeenth-century printing used to frame the start of a new section.

EPIGRAM TO THE BE-

NEVOLENT READER.

Whoever you are, O reader, be kind to our labor, original: "Quisquis es ô lector nostro tu parce labori"
What is said now has been said before: original: "Quæ sunt dicta modo, dicta fuere prius"
And whatever is written in my little book original: "Et quæcunque meo paruo sunt scripta libello"
Just as it is mine and not mine, so it is yours and not yours. original: "Ut mea non mea sunt, sic tua non tua sunt"

A circular library stamp for the "Sainte-Geneviève Library" features a central monogram with the letters "SG." This mark indicates that this specific copy was historically part of the collection at the Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris.

Epigram (epigramma): A short, pithy poem, often used in this period to offer a moral or a modest introduction to a larger work.
Reader (lector): The "benevolent" or "kind" reader was a standard way for authors to address their audience, hoping for a sympathetic reception of their work.
Little book (libello): A diminutive form for a book, used here as a "modesty topos"—a rhetorical device where the author downplays the importance of their own work.