Signatures: A-Zp8s, Aa-Ccp8s, Ddp6s. Paged from right to left, in the fashion of a Hebrew book.

First edition.

Imprint from colophon: Expliciunt Quatuor libri Institutionu[m] hebraicaru[m], impressi Lugd[uni] [per] Antoniu[m] du Ry, impe[n]sis reuere[n]dissi. do. Fra[n]ci. [de] Claromo[n]te epi cardi[n]alis auxita. legati Auenion[is] an. d[omi]ni M.D.XXVJ. Die. j. me[n]sis octobris.

Title (in red and black) and colophon within ornamental borders; initials.

Head-piece (portrait of author): p. 1.

The Italian Hebraist Santes Pagninus was taught by a Spanish-Jewish convert to Catholicism, Clement Abraham. Pagnini's grammar was chiefly based on David Kimchi's Michlol and was widely consulted in the sixteenth century.

Freimann p. 74

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy has contemporary ms. inscription in Greek at foot of colophon.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department)copy bound in contemporary blind stamped calf, outer portrait and acanthus leaf roll around two repetitions of a foliage roll, lilies at corners. Blind ruled spine.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy ex libris: Loenh. Sutter.