Title in red; books 2-3 have special titles in red, with woodcuts; woodcut at head of each chapter; floreated initials.

Signatures: [maltese cross] A-Y⁸, Z¹⁰, AA-KK⁸ (last leaf blank).

Colophon (l. cclxiii): Acabase de imprimir en la inclita ciudad del Senado Veneciano. oy primero dia de Hebrero del presente Año de mil y quinientos & trenta quatro del nacimiento del nuestro Redemptor. y fue Impreso por M. Iuan Antonio de Nicolini de Sabio Alas espesas de M. Zuan Batista Pedreçan Mercader de libros que esta alpie del puente de Rialto & tiene por enseña la Tore. Estos tres libros como arriba uos dix

Ex Musaco Huthii. In upper right corner of t.-p. a stamp: W.B. Chorley.

Bound in red morocco, by Lewis.

At foot of l. cclxii (recto): Fve trasladado y tradvzido este Libro de Primaleon de Griego en nuestro Romāce Castellano En la muy noble & Imperial ciudad de Toledo. Año del nascimiento del nuestro Redēptor Iesu Christo del mil & quinientos & ueynte y ocho. Años.

The introductory matter includes: Introdvcion del primero libro De Primaleon fecha por el delicado en este dechado de Caualleros corrigendolo en Venecia; Nveva tabla De los Capítulos; Prologo qve fve dirigido al ylvstre & magnifico señor don Luys de Cordoua.

"If we except Torquato Tasso ... Primaleon, the second book of Palmerin de Oliva, is by common consent to be numbered among the army of continuations which fail to sustain such merit as their originals may possess. Cervantes ignores it in the f̀amous and diverting scrutiny,' that is, unless he tacitly includes both books under the title Palmerin de Oliva. Yet Primaleon was as popular in Spain during the sixteenth century as was Palmerin de Oliva. There were some ten editions in the original language between 1512 and 1588. As with Palmerin, a single copy of the first edition is recorded [Catalogue des livres rares et précieux, manuscrits et imprimés, composant la bibliothèque de M. Chedeau, Paris, 1865, no. 990]"--H. Thomas, in Transactions of the Bibl. soc. (London) v. 13, p. 104.

Microfilm. Lexington, Ky., University of Kentucky Libraries, Microfilm Center, 1964. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Spanish, Portuguese & American books before 1601, roll 8)