⚠The text on this page is extremely faded and nearly illegible. The transcription is based on faint traces of ink and corroborated by the institutional shelfmark (3156 A 30), which identifies this as the title page of Marc-Antoine Muret's "Poemata" (1559).

MARC-ANTOINE?
MURET? original: "M. Antonii Mureti"

POEMS? original: "Poemata"

Dedicated to Cardinal Ippolito d’Este? original: "Ad Hippolytum Estensem Cardinalem"; Ippolito II d'Este was a powerful churchman and patron of the arts in 16th-century Italy.

A very faint printer's device appears in the center of the page, likely the mark of the publisher Hugo a Porta, who was active in the Lyon book trade.

LYON?

original: "Lugduni"

At the shop of Hugo a Porta?

original: "Apud Hugonem a Porta"

1559?