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Credit: Antoine Vérard / by John Macfarlane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![UNDATED BOOKS OF 1485-99 BEARING THE ADDRESS “ SUR LE PONT NOSTRE DAME,” In alphabetical Order of their Titles, with conjectural Dates. 103. Apologues et fables de Laurent Valle. [1490 ?] fol. Collation : 36 unnumbered leaves, sig. A-B8, C6, Dg, E6. Printed in double columns, 33 lines to a full column. Description : [Ax a.] Au roy treschrestien Charles huitiesme de ce / nom guillaume tardif du puy en velay son / liseur treshumble Recomandation supplie / et requiert./ Deslors que dieu vous / doua, etc.// [D, <?.] Le prologue du translateur./ [Fjrancois petrarque en / certain traidle, etc. [Ee al\ Et ce briefuement suffise / des ditz des sages homes. Illustrations: This copy is one executed by V£rard for Charles VIII. An illumination on the frontispiece represents him kneeling before a king and queen, with courtiers in the background. This page has a fine border of fleur-de-lys in blue and gold. The next leaf bears on its refto cut No. 17, illuminated, and having a similar border but of inferior execution. Doubt- less an inferior artist was employed when an illumination was used merely to colour and not obliterate a woodcut. Throughout the book are illumina- tions, no doubt covering cuts. Type : No. 3. Copy known : Bib. Nat.* (V61. 611). 104. Bible des Poetes. [Translated from the Metamorphoses of Ovid.] [1498 ?] fol. Collation : 24 unnumbered leaves, sig. A-C8, followed by 184 numbered leaves, sig. a-b8, c6, d-x8, y-z6, z6 (the last missing and doubtless blank). Printed in double columns, 45-46 lines to a full column. Description : [Aj a.~\ La bible des poetes. metha-/morphoze. nouuelle- met / imprime a paris.// [Monogram.] [z6 a.] Cy finist la bible des](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
