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Credit: Antoine Vérard / by John Macfarlane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Site of Verard’s Establishment. The colophons of Verard’s books, though often bearing no date, afford nevertheless a clue to a chronological classification, on account of the variations of the address, which is nearly always given. Thus up to October, 1499, he occupied an establishment on the Pont Notre Dame and a shop in the Sainte Chapelle. The bridge collapsed on October 25th, 1499, whereupon, still keeping his second establishment, Verard changed his first to an address which appears variously as “ Pres Petit Pont,” “ rue Saint Jacques pres Petit Pont,” “ Carrefour Saint-Severin,” “ Petit Pont pres du Carrefour Saint-Severin,” and “ Petit Pont devant la rue Notre Dame.” It has been generally supposed that the address “ Carrefour S. Severin ” represents a separate and earlier establishment, which was only used till September, 1500, but this conflicts with the colophon of a Horce (No. 226), which bears the date August 18th, 1502, and the address “Carrefour Saint- Severin.” Verard’s next move was in September, 1503, to an address which generally appears under the form “ devant la rue Neuve Notre Dame,” but is also described as “ devant la grande eglise Notre Dame,” “ Pres l’ostel Dieu devant la rue Neuve Notre Dame,” and “ Devant Notre Dame.” The Froissart of 1518 [No. 282], published by Verard’s successors, gives the alternative forms “ devant la rue Neuve Notre Dame ” and “ rue de la Juiverie.” The colophon of one book, the Proprietaire (No. 146), bears a curious evidence of this change of address, as a blank space is left between the words “ demourant a Paris ” and “ Au palais au premier pillier, etc.” Again, in a vellum copy of the Tresor de /’ame (No. 129), the word sur in the expression sur le pont of the colo- phon has been erased, and tout deuant written in. Publications.—Vellum Copies. The nature and extent of Verard’s publications may be gathered from the bibliographical list in the present volume. They are all in the vernacular except some of the Horce and one of his latest](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
