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An ornamental woodcut headpiece features symmetrical scrollwork, foliage, and a central human face or cherub head.
FRATER SEBASTIANUS MÜNSTER,
MINORITE, TO THE CANDIDATES
of the Hebrew language, sends greetings.
A large decorative woodcut initial 'N' depicts two figures, possibly scholars or biblical figures, within an architectural or natural setting.
It does not escape me that there are some who think that one has no need of precepts, but only the reading of the Old Testament, to acquire skill in the Hebrew language. Truly, I differ from them far and wide. For just as he arrives at his intended destination more certainly and easily to whom the journey has been demonstrated beforehand, so he will learn the language with less labor who has been instructed first by brief rules. A certain Rabbi subscribes to this opinion of ours, whom the most learned father Caspar Ammonius mentions in his grammar, with these verses:
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