The Inscription

Ego Joannes de Lugduno, Mons[luc]ensis, gallus, Bituricensis dyocesis, in artibus magister in alma Parrhisiorum universitate & grammaticorum regalis collegii Navarre subprimarius & ibidem actu regens; ingenue profiteor me (ob incredibilem charitatis amorisque vicissitudinem) mero & puro dono dare magistro Joanni poligrapho Anglico hoc primum plinianum naturalis historie volumen cum secundo. Ad cuius rei prebendum fidele testimonium chirographum meum huic spontane<e> cedule apponendum duxi, kalendis aprilibus anno Domini 1512.  Jo Lion [seal]

I, Jean de Lyon, a French man of Montlucon, diocese of Bourges, master of arts in the bounteous university of Paris and vice-principal of grammarians in the royal college of Navarre and regent there at present, freely declare (on account of an incredible exchange of charity and love), by a pure gift willingly offer to the prolific author Master Johannes Anglicus this first volume, along with the second, of Pliny's Natural History. In witness thereof to this fact, I have freely affixed my signature to this note, this 1 April 1512. Jo Lion [seal]