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Credit: Antoine Vérard / by John Macfarlane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![No. 28, cut down at the bottom by nearly an inch. On [AAA4 a] is a cut not elsewhere seen, and unlike any used by Verard. Types: Nos. 3*, 7 ; the former only in the preliminary leaves and in ff. 147-152 of vol. 3. The first of these occupies 34-35 lines, the second 33-34 lines to a full page. Small black initials throughout. Copies known: Brit. Mus. (C. 8. i. 9), Ars.*, Maz.* (Inc. 742), Bib. Nat., Rouen, Troyes, Vienna. Merlin. “ 1498.” [For the edition bearing the date 1498, and the address, “deuant la rue neufue nostre Dame,” and issued therefore after 1503], see infra, No. 173. Boccaccio. Genealogie des Dieux. 1498 [1499], Feb. 9. fol. Collation: 226 numbered leaves, sig. a-z8, z8, o8, A-B8, C6, D4, followed by 6 unnumbered leaves, sig. [D2], E4. Printed in double columns, 45 lines to a full column. Description : [Fol. 1 a.] Boccace de la geneologie des dieux.// [E4 b.~\ Cy finist Jehan bocace de la genea/logie des dieux Imprime nouuellemet/a Paris La mil CCCC. quatrevlgtz / z dixhuit le neufuiesme iour de feurier / Pour Anthoine verard libraire demou/rant a Paris sur le pont nostre dame a / lymage saint Iehan leuageliste, ou au / palais au premier pilier, etc. Illustrations: A number of re-used folio cuts from the Boece of 1494 and elsewhere, e.g.y on [g7 a] No. 29, on [r6 Z>] No. 27, on [s8 a] No. 34, on [z4 a] No. 28, and some of middling size, evidently specially drawn for this work. These latter in many cases do not appear to have been subsequently used. c Black’ initials. Type; No. 3, and a small marginal type, not 4 or 10. Copy known: Bib. Nat.* (Res. J. 845, 849). Note: In one of these copies the whole of sheet a, also sigs. b2 and b7, has been reprinted in a different type (that of the Ortus Sanitatis). The title, in large type, runs, Bocace de la genealogie / des Dieux.// The re- printed portions contain some large initials which belong to the sixteenth century. Pelerinage de Fame. [By Guillaume Deguileville.] 1499, 27 April. Collation: 2 leaves unnumbered and without signatures, followed by 84 numbered leaves, sig. A-Oe. Description: [Fol. 1 «.] Le pelerinai-/ge de lame.// [Oe bi\ Cy finist](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
