Licence: In copyright
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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![[CjOnsidere tres noble et puissant dame Que nous devons de cueur de corps et de ame Par chacun jour avoir compassion De 1’engoisseuse et dure passion Que nostre Dieu de son bon gr£ souffrit En m^morant le temps auquel se offrit Pour rdparer le criminel meffait Que avait commis le premier homme et fait Et que tost vient la feste solempnelle Ou cueur devot se paist et saoule en elle Du fruit cy doulx qui mourut et pendit Hault en la croix et son sang espandit J’ay entrepris ce traidtd vous transmedlre Qui touche bien le salut nostre en mettre Et pour ce que signes font esmouvoir D£sirs ferventz plus que didtz mouvoir J’ay fait aussy par hystoires desc[r]ire Ce que l’a&eur cest entremys descrire Si vous supply, dame tres excellente Quoyque ma main soit par grant excez lente Pour devers vous devoir ainsi emprendre Qu’en gr6 vueilles le petit present prendre Car le vouloir de cil qui vous l’envoye Pour vous servir traveille et voile en voie. C’est vostre treshumble & tres obeyssant serviteur. Anthoine verard libraire. Illustrations. The illustrations in Verard’s books, when closely examined, hardly bear out their reputation. Sets of blocks appear to have been expressly cut to adorn some thirty editions, and of these a few never appear again, while the others are used time after time. The extent of this repeated use may be judged from the table of cuts in the Appendix, in which forty-five blocks, selected either from their frequent occurrence or as types of artistic style, have been traced systematically in their progress through Verard’s pub- lications. Reproductions of most of them have also been given. It was hoped that a comparison of the successive states would give clues to the chronology of the undated books, but the Verards in the British Museum are not sufficiently numerous, and the present writer](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
