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Credit: Antoine Vérard / by John Macfarlane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![84. Epistres Saindt Pol. 1507 [1508], 17 Jan. fol. Collation: 118 unnumbered leaves, sig. a-t6, v4. Printed with two types, 48 and 49 lines of the smaller to a full page. Description: [a, a.] Les epistres saindt / pol. glosees./ Translatees de latin en francois.// [v3 a.~\ A la louenge de nostre seigneur . . . ont este / translatees de latin en francois ces pre/sentes epistres le monseigneur saindl / pol Auec la glose nouuellement a Par-/ris par vng dofteur en theologie de lor/dre de monseigneur saindt augustin./ Et imprimees pour anthoine verard marchant libraire demourant a Paris / deuant la rue neufue nostre dame a len/seigne de moseignr saindl: iehan leuan-/geliste, ou au palais au premier pillier/, etc.// [v3 £.] [Device.] Ce present liure a este acheue dimpri-/mer par ledit verard le .xviie. iour de ian-/uier mil cinq cens z sept. Et a le roy no-/stre sire donne audit verard ledtres de pri-/uilege et terme de trois ans pour vendre z / distribuer ledit liure pour soy rembourser / des fraiz et mises par luy faidtes. Et def/fend le roy nostredit seigneur a tous inpri/meurs libraires z autres du royaulme de / france de non imprimer ledit liure de trois / ans sur paine de cofiscatid desditz liures.// Illustrations : Many full-page cuts (some from the Abbeville Cite de Dieu of i486): e.g. on verso of title-page, No. 39; on [n2 a\ No. 42. There are also a few small cuts, one of which, that on [os £], belongs to the earlier part of Verard’s career. On title-page, L No. 9. Throughout ‘black,’ ‘floral,’ and ‘bossed’ small initials. Copies known: Brit. Mus. (1413. k. 6), Bib. Nat.* (Vel. 124). Note: The vellum copy has [v3 b~\ blank, but has inserted between the first two leaves an extra leaf bearing an illumination representing Anne of Brittany and her suite kneeling in a chapel and offering a book to the service of the Church, while beneath this and on the verso is a dedicatory poem signed : Celluy qui tresaffedlueusement desire estre et demourer a iamais vostre treshumble et tresobeyssant seruiteur Anthoyne verard. 85. Nef de Sante. 1507 [1508], 17 Jan. Collation : 98 unnumbered leaves, sig. a-p6, q8. Printed in double columns, 38 and 39 lines to a full column. Description: [a, a.~\ La nef de sante/ Auec le gouuernail du corps humain et / la condanacion des bancquetz a la louen-/ge de diepte et sobriete, et le traidtie des passions de lame.// [q4 £.] Cy fine la nef de sante et condampnation / des banquetz auec le traidtie des passios / de lame Imprime a paris pour Anthoine / verard marchant libraire Demourant a / Paris.// [Device.] Ce present liure a este acheue dimprimer par ledit verard le .xviie. iour de ian/uier mil cinq cens z / sept. Et a le roy nre sire, etc. [Privilege for three years, as in No. 79.] Illustrations: On title-page, L No. 10 ; on [a3 a] cut No. 32. A few other re-used cuts, mostly of the set to which No. 40 belongs.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
