TO THE READER.

A circular library stamp of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Bibliotheca Cantonalis Turicensis) is visible here.

Those who teach the reading of our common tongue are accustomed to lead boys from the knowledge of letters and syllables into a nomenclature, which they call in German, Das Namenbüch The Naming Book: thus, men who are not unlearned judge that the reading of the Latin language is easily taught. Therefore, we have immediately subjected this Elementale to a nomenclature, not indeed distinguished according to the chapters and titles of things, but distributed in certain classes of declensions and the same endings and genders in alphabetical order, so that the boys might have a certain little forest of examples of all declensions, endings, and genders, composed not confusedly, but in a certain order.

Moreover, we have composed separately in another little book complete Latin-German paradigms through individual declensions of nouns and conjugations of verbs for the beginners, so that in this way, through turns in the morning hours in the Nomenclature, and indeed in the afternoons in the complete examples of declensions and conjugations, the genuine reading of the Latin language may be practiced with less boredom and greater utility. Farewell.