Foreword in French and English.
"Humanist Europe : a bio-bibliographical register of textual transmission 1300-1650"--Caption of Foreword on p. 11.
"Divided in two parts, the Register gives in alphabetical order entries concerning 2350 transmitters, from Petrarch to Peiresc -deceased after 1325 and born before 1600- with the ancient authors, east and west, up to 1500 that they transmit. Two indexes provide the names of the authors transmitted and the variants of the names of the humanists"--P. 13-14.