In the top right corner of the page, there is a large, decorative handwritten pen flourish consisting of several intersecting circular loops. On the left side of the page, in the margin next to the author's name, there is a single large, handwritten capital letter "R" in ink.

BOOK ON THE UNIVERSE,

IN WHICH A COMPENDIUM

of astronomy and celestial doctrine

is adapted to the Earth, and the entire world

of the Earth, as far as it is known, is explained

according to the order of celestial influence,

the rationale of the primary Origins, and the

chronologies of the Kingdoms.

But before all other parts of the world, the HOLY LAND is

described in this highest, that is, this most ample compendium:

to which Gaul is substituted for the primary name and right of the

world, because both are destined to give law to the entire world.

¶By Guillaume Postel, restored in the assertion of the evangelical kingdom, author.

From the printing house of Jean Gueullart, at the sign of the Phoenix, across from the Reims college.

1552.