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Possibly - a complete guess, since Protomathesis is Finé's major work and "encyclopedic" in nature: Orontii Finei Delphinatis, Liberalivm Disciplinarvm Professoris Regii, Protomathesis : Opus uarium, ac scitu non minus utile quàm iucundum ; Cuius index uniuersalis, in uersa pagina continetur. (By Oronce Finé). (Parisiis : Morrhius & Petrus, 1532). http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175013831. See also: http://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-oronce-fines-emprotomathesisem. (Briancon, the town of Finé's birth, was in the Dauphine so he wrote under the Latin name Orontius Finaeus Delphinatus, the last of these names indicating that he came from the Dauphine - information from the MacTutor Archive; http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=Oronce+Fine%20MacTutor&CONTEXT=1).