Entering the boundaries of the book, readers had to pass through the threshold of the prefatory material before reaching the work itself.
More important, the letter occurs in a new context - a public journal - among a new set of co-texts - a prefatory letter and footnotes.
This theme is announced unmistakably by all the prefatory letters which various humanists appended to the 1517 and 1518 editions of the text.
Moreover, a common practice of the time was for authors to introduce their printed plays with a prefatory statement.
A final prefatory note: just as the three motivations show no linear trend, so racial reorganization as a whole need not tend in one direction.
A possible answer lies in the extensive prefatory material included in the volume.
But its scope, in terms of its forces, its length, and its vision, makes all of those works seem to be prefatory sketches.
Every text within the database is reproduced in full, including all prefatory matter and annotations.
