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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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![demourant a Paris sur / le pont nostre dame a limaige sainft / iehan leuange- liste, ou au Palays au / premier pillier, etc.I/ [Device.] Illustrations: The cuts are all illuminated, and mostly undistinguishable, but on [b3 £] is The Deity and the Blessed [Monceaux I. 165]. On title- page, L No. 4. Types: Nos. 3, 7. Copies known : Brit. Mus. (C. 22. c. I, on vellum), Bib. Nat.* (Vel. 688), Lyons. 44. Ordinaire des Chretiens. 1495. fol. Collation: 176 unnumbered leaves, sig. a-y8; 34 lines to a full page. Description : [ax a.~\ Lordinaire des Crestiens.// [y7] Imprime a paris lan mil cccc. nonante cinq. Pour Anthoi/ne verad libraire demourant a paris sur le pont nostre da/me a lymage saint iehan ou au palais au pre/mier pi Her, etc. Copies known : Public Libraries of Niort and Melun. The above informa-' tion has been kindly supplied by Monsieur Chotard, librarian of Niort. Note: The initials are partly printed, partly left blank. 45. Legende doree. 1496, 20 May. fol. Collation: 300 numbered leaves, sig. a4, b-z8, Zg, d8, A-N8. Printed in double columns, 45 lines to a full column. Description: [a4 a.] La legende doree en francois imprimee / a Paris.// [N8 «.] A lhonneur et louenge de dieu le pe-/re tout puissant de la glorieuse vierge ma/rie z toute la court celestielle de paradis / a este acheuee de imprimer a Paris ceste p/sente legende en francois. le xx. iour de / may CCCC . iiii xx . z xvi pour Anthoine ver/ard libraire demourant a paris sur le pot / nostre dame a lymage saint iehan leuan/geliste ou au palais au premier pillier, etc.11 Illustrations: On title an imitation of L No. 6. A number of very small cuts, apparently from Hora (not VSard’s), and a few larger ones. None of these appear to be elsewhere used by Verard. Copy known : Bib. Nat.* (Res. H. U0mm.). Note: The unfamiliar nature of the type and illustrations show that the book was not done for Verard by one of his ordinary printers. 46. Art de bien vivre et de bien mourir. 1496, 20 June. fol. Collation: 202 nej °6> Psj He? r6- unnumbered leaves, sig. AA-HH8, II10, a-h8, i6, kg, 110} m8, Printed in double columns, 33 lines to a full column.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
