Rare first edition on oriental studies, also important for the history of music for the first illustrated description of the bassoon, which the author's uncle, Afranio degli Albonesi, had invented at the beginning of the century. The canon regular Teseo Ambrogio degli Albonesi (often referred to simply as Ambrogio or Ambrosius; 1469-1540) taught the Syriac language. This introduction to oriental languages - his only publication - is a mixture of linguistic treatises and a collection of exotic alphabets. If Albonesi's results are not always correct, they remain of great importance for the history of linguistic culture: the "Introductio" is one of those works that inspired the nascent discipline of comparative philology to undertake further research. "His work offers a detailed overview of the Syriac and Armenian languages from various points of view, and a brief notice on the other exotic languages (Samaritan, Arabic, Coptic, Cyrillic, Ethiopian) - these languages are all discussed with handwritten examples in the previous chapters, and throughout the work we find empty spaces where such words still had to be filled in. In this copy, these empty spaces have been filled with ink by a contemporary hand. & nbsp; I nteresting signs of censorship in the verse of f. 212, where it speaks of demonological argument.