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Credit: Antoine Vérard / by John Macfarlane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Illustrations: On title-page, L No. 6. On verso of title (in Bib. Nat. copy, on fol. 4 b) cut No. 20. ‘ Black ’ initials. Types : Nos. 7, 8. Copies known: Brit. Mus. (C. 22. c. 3, on vellum), Bib. Nat.* (Res. *E. 46), Lyons. 51. Legende Doree. 1497, 20 November, fol. Collation : 300 leaves, sig. a-z, z, A-N4. Printed in double columns, 45 lines to a full column. Description : [fol. 1.] La legende doree en francoys / imprimee a paris.// [Device.] [N4 b.~\ A lhonneur et louenge de dieu le pere / tout puissant de la glorieuse vierge marie et / toute la court celestielle de paradis a este a-/cheuee de imprimer a Paris ceste presente le/gende en francois le xx iour de nouem- bre. Ian. mil. cccc.iiiixx. et xvii. pour Anthoine / Verard libraire demourant a paris sur le pont / nostre dame a lymage saint [Jehan l]euange/liste ou au palais au [premier pilier, <tfc.]// Copy known : Perpignan Public Library. (See Catalogue des Incunables, by P. Vidal, 1897.) 52. Destruction de Troie la Grant. [By Jacques Milet.] 1498, 8 May. fol. Collation: 212 unnumbered leaves (the first blank), sig. a-q8, r6, s8, t6, v8, Xg, y8, z6, A-C8, D-E6. Printed in double columns, 40 lines to a full column. Description : [a2 a.] [E]n passant parmy / une lande / plaine de roses et / de fleurs /, etc. [E5 b.~\ Cy finist listoire de la destruction / de troye la grant mise par parsonnai-/ges par maistre iacques milet licecie / en loix Et imprimee a paris le huyties/me iour de may par Jehan driart Im/primeur demourant a la rue saint Iac/ques a lenseigne de trois pucelles / Lan mil quatrecens quatre vingtz z dixhuyt.// [E6 a.] [Device.]. Illustrations; On [a2 a] is a cut closely imitated from the frontispiece of the edition printed at Lyons by M. Husz in 1485. Throughout the book a number of oblong cuts (many with heavy black borders), resembling and in some cases identical with the cuts of the Casar of 1485, e.g.y on f4 ay No. 2. On [a4 b~\ is a fine cut also found in the Livre des Prouffits cham- pestres, printed by Jean Bonhomme in i486. Type: No. 1 of Jean Driard. Copies known: Brit. Mus. (C. 22. c. 5, on vellum), Bib. Nat.* (Vel. 603, Res. Yf. 34.), Carpentras. Note: The colophon after the word Paris has been deleted in the British Museum copy.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
