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re-|keninghen onder den Menschen noodigh val-|lende, afveerdighen door heele ghetal-|len, sonder ghebrokenen.|Door Simon Stevin van Brugghe.|
Ter Govde,|By Pieter Rammaseyn, Boeck-|vercooper, inde Corte Groenendal, int Duyts|Vergult ABC.|M. DC. XXVI.|
A12, Title-page.A12, blank, A21–A31, pp. 3–5, Preface “Den Sterrekiichers, Landtmeters, Tapiitmeters, Wijnmeters, Lichaemmeters int ghemeene, Muntmeesters, ende allen Cooplieden, wenscht Simon Stevin Gheluck.”A32, p. 6, “Cort Begriip.” A4, pp. 7 and 8, “Het Eerste Deel Der Thiende Vande Bepalinghen.”B11–B42, pp. 9–15, “Het Ander Deel Der Thiende Vande Werckinghe.”B42–D21, pp. 16–27, Aenhanghsel.D22, blank.
Signatures. * in four and † in two (=6) + A to Z and Aa to Rr in fours, except T, Y, and Cc, which are in twos, (=154) + a to q in fours (=64) + A to C in fours and D in two (=14) = in all 238 leaves.
Paging. 12 + 308 numbered + 128 + 27 numbered + 1 = 476 pages.
Errors in Paging. The pages 111, 121, 218, 219, 270, 271, 274, are numbered 110, 221, 217, 218, 254, 255, 258, respectively, and the numbers are not printed on the following pages, 88-90, 103, 105, 112-114, 149, 150, 169-176, 187, 196, 222, 275-284, but the numbering of the last page, 308, is not affected.
Errors in Signatures. N3 is printed as N5, V2 as V, and Gg2 as Gg3.
The leaf K4 has been cut out and another substituted.
The translation of Rabdologiæ, extending from *42 to T22 and embracing 5 unnumbered and 148 numbered pages, appears to correspond exactly with the original Latin edition of 1617, except that Napier’s dedication to Lord Dunfermline on the 5 pages ¶21–¶41 and the two lines on the page ¶62 of that edition are omitted. The translation is by Adrian Vlack, and was made at the request of De Decker, for this work.
Libraries. Un. Col. Lon.; Trin. Col. Camb.; Kön. Berlin; Kon. Hague; Nat. Paris;
