Tabulae totius dialectices, aliarum artium instrumenti ...

TO THE MOST PREEMINENT MAN, LORD LUDOVICUS À FLANDRIA, Lord of Praet, etc., Knight of the most high order of the Golden Fleece, Cornelius Valerius of Utrecht sends greetings.

Decorative drop cap R featuring floral and foliate motifs.THEY RETURN TO YOU, most clear man, the Tables recently dedicated to you, to be viewed in a new form of the book, which I have now given here for the first time, so enriched with some new and useful additions that in them now nothing seems to have been omitted of those things which, handed down in volumes by many others, often bring annoying weariness to the reader. Nothing here now, perhaps even by those who, sworn to the words of the dialecticians of the prior century, are rarely accustomed to approve anything unless it is what they themselves have learned, or omitted by negligence, or hidden by ignorance of things not very useful but not very difficult, will they desire. Certainly I have concealed nothing, I have omitted nothing, which of the art

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