The printed book did not number the pages in sequence; instead it numbered the recto (odd, right) pages of the first few leaves in each signature. Folio numbers in smaller print were added by the transcriber; all verso (even, left) pages are shown as ||. Two sets of pages were apparently printed out of sequence. Details are given at the [end of the text], along with notes on a few other problems.
A few words such as “with” or “the” were printed as abbreviations: initial “y” (for þ, thorn) or “w” with small “t” or “e” above it. These are shown as ordinary superscripts: ye, wt. Typographical errors are shown with mouse-hover popups. Numerals such as “.x.” were printed without adjoining spaces; spacing has been silently added.
The table of contents was part of the original text.
¶ Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu.
[ Tabula libri]
¶ Fyrste a prologue.
¶ How youth mette with discrecyon in a medowe in his dreme & was reformed by her prouerbes ca.i.
¶ How youth with discrecyon sayled ouer the daungerous passage of vayne glorye and arryued in a fayre Ilonde longynge to foure ladyes named Hardynes / Sapyence / fortune / & nature. ca.ii
¶ Of the meruaylous palays of fortune ca.iii.