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![Illustrations: Two large cuts closely resembling one another, one being also found as frontispiece in the Sydrach of i486; many small cuts by another hand, e.g. on [n2 b~\ No. 1. The latter are here closely adapted to the text, and appear afterwards in many of Verard’s publications, much worn. Types: Nos. 2, 3 of Pierre Levet. Copy known: Bib. Nat.* (Res. Y2 174). 5. Sydrack philozophe. La Fontaine de toutes Sciences, i486 [1487], 20 Feb. fol. Collation: 186 unnumbered leaves, sig. A6, B6, C10, a-y8, except f, g, 1, r, u, y, sixes. Printed in double columns, 36 lines to a full column. Description : [ReCto of leaf preceding At.] La fontaine de / toutes scieces / du philosophe / Sydrach.// [y 6a.] Cy finist le liure que Sydrach phi-/lozophe a fait / le quel / liure est la fontai/ne de toutes sciences imprime a paris le / xx. iour de feurier Mil. cccc. huita/te et six pour anthoine verard libraire / demourat a paris sur le pot nostre dame / a lymage saint iehan leuangeliste ou / au palaiz au premier pillier . . . amen.// [Early device.] Illustrations: On [a4 a~\ a cut (see Illustrations); on title-page L, No. 1. Types : Nos. 2, 3 of Pierre Levet. Copy known: Bib. Nat.* (Res. Y2 183). 6. Vegetius. Art de chevalerie. 1488, 26 June. fol. Collation: 96 leaves without pagination, printed in double columns, 33 lines to a full column. Six leaves, of which the second and third are signed ii and iii, followed by sig. a-l8, m-n6 [n6 blank]. Description: [a4 a.] Lart de cheualerie selon Vegece.// [n4 <7, col. 1.] Explicit le liure de droit darmes / subtilite z cautelle ad ce seruas se/lon Vegece de lart de cheualerie./ Imprime le xxvie iour de Iuing / Mil.cccc.quatre vings / z huit pr Anthoine Verard Li/braire demourant a Paris sur le / pont nredame a lymaige sain£I / Iehan leuageliste ou au palaiz / epres la chapelle, etc. [Early device.] [n4 «, col. 2.] Icy sont declairees les douze / vertus que vng noble homme et de noble couraige doibt auoir en / son cueur, etc. [n6 b, col. 1. Explicit.] Cy sont les vii. vertus / que en noblesse doibt a/uoir Et par especial es / princes.// Illustrations: Five oblong cuts with heavy black border, e.g. [a4 b~\ No. 2, [h4 b~\ No. 3, [k7 b~\ No. 4. These are all found in the Casar of 1485 (see infra, Doubtful and Spurious Books), but first appeared in the De- struction de Troie printed in 1484 by Jean Bonhomme, the only known copy of which is in the Ducal Library at Dresden. (For this information the writer is indebted to M. Claudin.) On title-page L, No. 3. Types: Nos. 2 and 3 of Guyot Marchand.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
