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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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![often two or three juxtaposed, quite archaic and worn. Among these the only one familiar is No. 21. Types: Nos. 3, 4. Copies known: Brit. Mus. (C. 22. f. 16 (1)), Bib. Nat., Ars. Compost et Kalendrier des bergiers. 1493, April 18. fol. Collation : 88 leaves, the last blank, sig. b8, A8, C-E6, F-H8, I-N6. Between G8 and Hj is inserted the “Tour de Sapience ” on a single leaf, unsigned. Description : [b, al\ [Le Kaledrier des bergiers /nouuellemet fait.] Ou quel sont adioustez plusieurs / nouuelletes come ceulx qui le verront pourrot cognoistre./ Et enseigne les iours, heures, et minutes des lunes nou-/uelles et des eclipses de souleil et de lune, la sciece salutoire / des Bergiers que chascun doit sauoir. Leur compost et / kalendrier sur la main en francois et latin tel quilz parlet / entre eulx: Larbre des vices Larbre des vertus et la tour/de sapiece figuree; ensemble la phisique et regime de sante/diceulx Bergiers, quest nothomye, flebothomye, Leur / astrologie des signes estoilles et planetes; et phizonomye./ Et plusieurs choses exquises et difficiles a congnoistre./ Lequel compost et kalenrier [sic\ touchat les lunes et eclipses / est approprie comme doit estre le climatz de france au / jugement et congnois- sance des Bergiers.// [N6 a.] Finit le compost et kalendrier des bergiers Imprime a Paris / par Guiot marchant demourant au champ gaillart derriere / le college de nauarre Lan M.CCCC.iiiixx et xiii. Le xviii. iour Dauril.// Note: The beginning of the title, in the Bib. Nat. copy, down to the word “ fait ” is written in blue ink. The printed title begins: Icy est le compost et kaledrier des Bergiers Nouuellement refait et autrement compose que nestoit par auant Ou quel, etc., as appears from the description given of the other known copy in Firmin-Didot’s catalogue of his library. From the same source it would appear that the painted coat-of-arms below the title covers an impression of the device of Guyot Marchand. Sig. b of this copy belongs to the edition printed by Marchand in July of the same year. For further details concerning this and other editions of the Compost in which Verard was not concerned, see Dr. H. O. Sommer’s Prolegomena to his facsimile reprint of The Kalender of Shepherds, London, 1892. Verard’s device is painted over the colophon; but the latter is sufficiently visible to show its identity with that of the July edition. Boccaccio. De la louengc . . . des nobles et cleres dames. 1493, April 28. fol. Collation: 144 unnumbered leaves, sig. a-n8, o-p6, q-r8, s-t6. 34 and 35 lines to a full page. Description : [aj a.~\ Le liure de Iehan bocasse de la louenge et vertu des nobles / et cleres dames traslate z Iprime nouuellemet a paris.// [t6 L] Cy](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
