Transcriber’s Notes

About this book: A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike waspublished in 1563. Only five copies of the original are known toexist. This e-book was transcribed from microfiche scans of theoriginal in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. The scans canbe viewed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France website athttp://gallica.bnf.fr.

Typography: The original line and paragraph breaks, hyphenation,spelling, capitalization, punctuation, inconsistent use of an acuteaccent over ee, the use of u for v and vice versa, and the use of ifor j and vice versa, have been preserved. All apparent printer errors havealso been preserved, and are listed at the end of this document.

The following alterations have been made:

1. Long-s (ſ) is regularized as s.

2. The paragraph symbol, resembling a C in the original, is renderedas ¶.

3. Missing punctuation, hyphens, and paragraph symbols have been addedin brackets, e.g. [-].

4. Except for the dedication, which is in modern italics, the majorityof the original book is in blackletter font, with some words in amodern non-italic font. All modern-font passages are rendered initalics.

5. Incorrect page numbers are corrected, but are included in thelist of printer errors at the end of this e-book.

6. Abbreviations and contractions represented as special characters inthe original have been expanded as noted in the table below.“Supralinear” means directly over a letter; “sublinear” means directlyunder a letter. The y referred to below is an Early Modern Englishform of the Anglo-Saxon thorn character, representing th, butidentical in appearance to the letter y.

A macron over a vowel represents m or n, and is rendered as it appearsin the original, e.g., cōprehēded = comprehended.

Pagination: This book was paginated using folio numbers in arecto-verso scheme. The front of each folio is the recto page (theright-hand page); the back of each folio is the verso page (theleft-hand page in a book). In the original, folio numbers (beginningafter the table of contents) are printed only on the recto side ofeach leaf. For the reader’s convenience, all folio pages in thise-book, including the verso pages, have been numbered in bracketsaccording to the original format, with the addition of r for rectoand v for verso, e.g., Fol. x.r is Folio 10 recto, Fol. x.v isFolio 10 verso.

Sources consulted: The uneven quality of the microfiche scans, as wellas the blackletter font and some ink bleed-through and blemishes in the original,made the scans difficult to read in some places. To ensure accuracy,the transcriber has consulted the facsimile reprint edited by FrancisR. Johnson (Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, New York, 1945). The1945 reprint was prepared primarily from the Bodleian copy, withseveral pages reproduced from the copy in the Chapin Library atWilliams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, where the Bodleian copywas unclear.