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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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![Un Alemand en tout scauoir trcsgrand, Qui ne sceut one parler langue francoyse, Dont ie me teu, sans pource prendre noise, Fors que marri ie fuz, dont ce Verard Y adiousta des choses d’un aultre art, Et qu’il laissa tresgrant part de ma prose, Qui m’est iniure, & a ce ie m’oppose Au chastellet, ou il me pacifEa Pour un present lequel me dedia. Books of Hours. Verard’s Books of Hours form so considerable a part of his output that they require a paragraph to themselves. The claim of Verard to have published the earliest Horcz has been generally admitted on the strength of his edition of August, i486, at the Bibliotheque Nationale. Just as the present lines were going to press, news was sent by M. Masson, of Amiens, of a yet earlier edition in his possession, dated February 6th, 1485[86]. This (No. 195) appears to rank with the two following editions, being adorned with small cuts. Verard’s next advance was in No. 198, with cuts of considerably greater dimensions, surrounded by borders. This edition is closely linked, by the resemblance of the borders, with No. 200, and both are printed with the types of Dupre. Intermediate in date between these two come the Petites Heures of February, 1489(^0], with the same cuts as before, but new borders of a particularly pleasing nature. These passed before July 10th, 1493, into t^ie possession of Laurens Philippe, since they appear in a Horcz of that date printed by him. The next type in the evolution of Verard’s Horcz is the Grandes Heures, of which undated editions have been ascribed to the year 1488, on account of the almanack for 1488-1508 that they contain. This evidence is not however conclusive, as the almanacks were commonly re- printed year after year without alteration. As therefore the blocks in the undated editions show greater signs of wear than those of the earliest dated edition (of August, 1490), we must for the present](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
