8 unnumbered
preliminary leaves (sign * not included in register on p. 1050)
containing title, dedicatory epistle of Aldus to Jacopo Antiquario,
index, four couplets of Jerome Aleander, preface of the editor
Demetrius Doukas (all except title and dedication in Greek); 1050
numbered pages of Greek text, final blank leaf with anchor on
verso. The type is Aldus's fourth Greek font, 46 lines to the page,
five- to eight-line spaces left for initials. The _semipagina_ (the
equivalent of our _page_) to which the index directs the reader,
shows that _pagina_ still had its older meaning _leaf_, and
incidentally that the numbering of the page instead of the leaf was
an innovation. The anchor and dolphin device, the symbol of the
motto _Festina lente_, which first appeared in the Dante of 1502,
is here in its first form, but of the larger size suitable for
folios and enclosed in double lines, on the title-page without
name, but on the last leaf with the addition ALDVS.
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