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![de crainte diui/ne pour bien mourir.// [i5 bl\ Cy finist le traidle des pai/nse denfer et de purga-/toire. Imprime a paris par / Gillet cousteau et Jehan / menard lan de grace mil / quattre Cens nonante et / deux le dixhuitiesme iour / du moys de iuillet, pour / Anthoine verard marchat / libraire demourant a pa-/ris sus le pont nostre dame a leseigne saint Jehan / leuangeliste.// [kx a.] Cy comence le traidle de / laduenement de antechrist.// [r5 b.~\ Cy finist le traidle de laduene-/ment de antechrist. des quin-/ze signes precedens le iugemet / general de dieu et des ioyes de / paradis. Imprime a paris le / xxviii. iour dodtobre Lan mil / CCCC. nonate z deux. Pour / Anthoine verard marchant li-/braire demourant a paris sur / le pont nostre dame a lensei-/gne saint iehan leuageliste ou au palais au premier pilier, etc.// [r6 a.] [Device.] [r0 b.] Laduenement de Antechrist / Les quinze signes histories pre/cedens le iugement general de / dieu auecques les ioyes de pa/radis.// [AAj a.] Le bien viure./ [II10 «.] Cy finist le liure de bien vi/ure Imprime a paris le xv. / iour de decebre mil .cccc. no-/nate z deux, pour anthoine / verard libraire demourant / sur le pont nostre dame a / lymage saint iehan leuan/geliste, ou au palais au pre/mier pillier, etc.11 Illustrations: (i) Art de Bien Mourir. A set of illustrations imitated from the German block-books of the Ars Moriendi; on [a4 b~\ No. 6. (2) Leguyllon de crainte diuine, etc. Each of the “ peines d’enfer ” is set forth in a cut. This set closely resembles one used by Guyot Marchand in his 1493 edition of the same book. Whether this is a case of imitation on one side or the other, or of copying from a common source, is undecided. Besides this set the treatise contains on [d4 <2] a cut by the same artist as No. 31, and much resembling it. (3) Aduenement de antechrist. A few miscellaneous cuts, e.g. on [kx <2] No. 17 ; on the verso of that leaf a small cut also found, with many others from the same hand, in the Roman de la Rose of [1498 ?], and on [12 b~\ No. 31. Besides these there is a set of cuts illustrating the “quinze signes,” and one of the “ Jugement dernier,” all by an inferior hand, and a full-page cut of the Deity surrounded by the Blessed. (4) The Art de bien Viure is copiously illustrated. The common frontis- piece-cut, No. 17, occurs twice ; on [BB2 a] one of the “peines d’enfer” is used again, without any particular reference to the text. There are also several sets of cuts (1) in compartments, with labels, illus- trating scenes from the Bible history; (2) an oblong set, representing the Adoration of the Virgin, the Lord’s Prayer, the Apostles, etc.; (3) a full- page set, illustrating the Sacraments. Many of the cuts throughout the book are reproduced by M. Monceaux, though in many cases from an illuminated copy. Several of the large cuts are surrounded by borders from the Mer des Hystoires. On [FF8] are found a small black initial L and C, the former in two varieties. Elsewhere in the book spaces are left for rubrished initials, the corresponding lower-case letter being sometimes printed in the middle. On](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
