The text of the title page is enclosed within a complex four-part decorative woodcut border. The top and bottom borders feature symmetrical foliate scrollwork with birds. The left border contains an ornate column with a figure of a young man standing on a pedestal and blowing a horn. The right border depicts a column with overlapping leaf patterns. In the lower center of the page, below the text, is a large woodcut printer's mark of a red fleur-de-lis.

Articella A small collection of medical treatises, often used by students. very recently

A hexastich A poem of six lines. by Petrus Pomarius of Valencia, a Spaniard, to the readers.

Do not scorn these small volumes, reader,
Whoever you are: pause your step under the light.
You will find the various arts of the physician or of Apollo The god of healing.:
Believe me, the page is filled with sacred salt A metaphor for wit or wisdom..
Candid reader, you who have a care for health:
Do not spare your gold: this work is richer.

With privilege. A legal protection granted by authorities to the publisher.

Georgij Petri of [...] [...] living [...]?