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HEHL - 103394 qiij (of 6) (leaf 93 of 150) Velum z liquid gold initials
on red + blue grounds with many colored miniatures.
book I-XVIII chapters to leaf 53
2 - IX " to leaf 95
3 - V " to leaf 123
4 - XI " to leaf 150

my leaf 8th chapter - leaf 92 to 94
opposite - miniature with wounded figure lying - assisted
by 2 femalse + a male
p3 - envie r2 - avarice treyson - p4 - g2

Chapt8 "comment apres ce q detraction disparagment avec layde homely des aultres
vielles dessludietes eut nauae wound le pelerin de son mortel
sword glaive 7 lui eut fait son cheval elocher hobble. Due
autre viel le arriva la qlle estroit toute herissee bristling:
et tenait entre les dens une sie. Et a ses deux
mains avoit deux gros cailloux pebble dote olle fai soit
feu saillir laqlle a tout ung fauchon qlle avoit
ceint en tout so yau pelerin voulut faucher et
troller to yaow la vie" to make a sally

Antoine verard was the single most important publisher in Paris
in the late 15th C. He was active between 1485 + 1512 + in this
time produced some 250 imprints. He was the 1st in Paris
to pritn a Book of Hours. Otherwise, almost all of Verard's
publishing was of vernacular texts, usually illust, with woodcuts:
romances of chilvary others popular literature + French
devotional works. Verard often printed vellum issues of his
See #246 books which could be ornamented + the woodcuts overprinted
for presentation to nobles + royal figures.

paper copies - woodcuts
vellum " - illuminations (for royal + princely book lovers.)
A. Verard - financed a printing house for his own publications