I bought the book itself in Italy a number of years ago; I believe it was from Florence, but I could be mistaken. It had been sitting neglected on my shelf since its purchase, since nothing seemed quite worthy of its leather-bound extravagance. But when the time came to prepare a notebook for my Organic Chemistry lab, I decided that I would strive to make the fineness of the viscera match that of the skin. Like the cover, what lies within is only the pale facsimile of something greater-- an imitation of erudition, a shadow of a grand ancient tradition-- and its meagerness does rankle somewhat in the scholarly part of my soul. But in sum, I feel like I've achieved something here that is worth at least preserving, and maybe even sharing.
The photographs are of dubious quality, so I'll do my best to post transcriptions of the text along with each image.
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