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![108. Bien advise mal advise. [1498 ?] fol. Collation : 56 unnumbered leaves (the first missing), sig. a8, b-i6. Printed in double columns, 40 lines to a full column. Description : [aj a.~\ Bien aduise / mal aduise.// [i6 a.~\ Cy finist le mistere de Bie aduise z mal aduise Impri/me a paris: par Pierre le caro: pour anthoine verard / libraire demourant a paris sur le pont nostre dame a / limage saint Iehan leuageliste : Ou au palais, etc. [i0 b.~\ [Device.] Illustrations: On [h6 b] cut of sinners thrust by devils into the jaws of Hell; below the colophon a cut of the Judgment (Monceaux, ii. 109). Copies known : Bib. Nat.* (Vel. 602), Chantilly. Note : In the vellum copy at the Bib. Nat. the colophon after the word “aduise” is in MS. The copy at Chantilly has a MS. note stating that it was given to the monastery of Clairvaulx by Verard, March 20, 1511 [1512]. 109. Fais Alain Chartier. [1499 ?] fol. Collation : [Fais.] 66 unnumbered leaves (the last blank), sig. a-k„, except a, b, d, eights. Printed in double columns, 40 lines to a full column. \Balladesl\ 68 unnumbered leaves, sig. A-K6, except A, B, D, F, eights. Printed in double columns, 40 lines to a full column. Description : [ax al] Les fais maistre alain charetier. Tous charetiers tat parfaiz que impfaiz. Qui charier veulet droit sans mesprendre. De maistre alain charetier les beaulxfaiz. En ce liure mis au vray doiuent prendre.// [Ax a.] Paix eureuse fille du dieu des dieux Engendree au trosne glorieux, etc. [K6 al\ Finissent les faiz, didtes z bal-/lades maistre Alain chartier / Imprimez a paris par Pierre le / caron, Pour Anthoine verard de-/mourant a paris sur leipont (sic) no-/stre dame a lymage saint Jehan / leuangeliste, ou au palais au pre/mier pillier deuant la ou Ion cha/te, etc. [Device.] Illustrations : On the title-page of the Fais, L No. 9. On the verso of the title-leaf is an elaborate cut—five personages sitting, wearing scarves, which appear as solid black portions of the cut, before them walk “ le clerc,” “ le procureur ” reading ; in the middle portion of the cut are “ le greffe,” “le receveur,” sitting at tables : below are other groups. On [a2 <z] and on [Aj a] is a cut of a man lying on a bed, propped on his right arm ; in the upper part of the cut are labels, in which the legends appear to have been removed. There are throughout a few quite small black initials, not else- where seen.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0098.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
