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Credit: Antoine Vérard / by John Macfarlane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[a2 a] is a large initial E in the same style as the large initials of the Mer des Hystoires. Type : No. 3. Copies known : Brit. Mus.(C. 53* g. 8), Ars.,* Bib.Nat.* (Vel.354 ^with- out the first leaf, and contains only the Art de bien mourir and the Aiguillon de crainte divine. Bib. Nat. Vel. 351 also contains part of these, and in this copy, as in Vel. 354, the device of Verard has been painted over that of Lerouge. D* 852 contains the Avenement de VAntichrist and the Quinze Signes, bound with a different edition of the first part. The description of this follows.) In the British Museum copy AAX is blank, and leaf ie is a spurious insertion, bearing on its verso the words “Les paines denfer et les pai-/nes de purgatoire.” 19. Art de bien mourir. Aiguillon de crainte divine. 1492, 18 July. fol. Collation: 70 unnumbered leaves, sig. a-h8, i6. Description: [ax a.] Le liure intitule lart / de bien mourir.// [c8 b.] Cy fine le liure intitule lart / de bien mourir.// [d7 a.~\ Leguyllon de crainte diui/ne pour bien mourir.// [i6 b.~\ Cy finist le trai&e des pai/nes 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 da/me a leseigne saint Iehan / leuangeliste.// Illustrations : as in the preceding. Type: No. 3. Copy known: Bib. Nat.* (D* 852). 20. Ordinaire des Crestiens. 1492, 6 061. fol. Collation: 176 leaves without pagination, sig. a-y8 (y8 missing in Brit. Mus. copy, and doubtless blank.) 34 lines to a full page. Description: [Aj a.~\ Lordinaire des crestiens.// [y7 b.'] A loneur et louege de dieu le pere tout puissant z de la / glorieuse vierge marie z de toute la court celestielle de/paradis a este acheue de imprimer a paris ce present or/dinaire des chresties le vi. iour do&obre lan mil. cccc. no/nante deux. Pour anthoine verard libraire demourant / a paris sur le pont nostre dame a lymage salt iehan le/uageliste, ou au palais, etc. [Device.] Illustrations: None. Types: Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6. Copies known : Brit. Mus. (473. b. 4 (1)), Tours. IO](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
