Antoine Vérard / by John Macfarlane.

  • Macfarlane, John
Date:
1900
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Credit: Antoine Vérard / by John Macfarlane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    INTRODUCTION. Biographical Details. HE parentage of Verard and his career before the appearance of his first book in 1485 is en- tirely unknown. An attempt has been made to connect him with one Jean-Pierre de Verade, to whom a “ permission de tester ” was granted by Charles VIII. in 1497,1 but there are in- superable difficulties of date.2 There are indi- cations connecting Verard with Touraine, for he published two books having relation to the province, a Coutumier, and the Chateau de Virginite of Georges de Esclavonie, a native of Tours. More- over, according to a document published by Dr. E. Giraudet,3 he bought in 1505 a house in that town, and, as we learn from another document published by M. Ch. Grandmaison,4 he had an agency at Tours for the sale of his books. The colophons of his books afford but little information as to his subsequent existence, except that in 1506 he enjoys the title of 1 Archives Historiques, tom. i., 1889. J Nouvelles recherches sur Antoine Verard et sa famille. Par Gaston Duval. Paris, 1898. 3 Les Artistes tourangeaux. Tours, 1885. 4 Intermediaire de 1'Quest, 1894 (No. 8).
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