Icy commence le psaultier de la tressacree Vierge Marie mere de Jesu Crist saulveur de tout lhumain lignage compose par le docteur seraphicque Monseigneur sainct Bonaventure evesque dalbanie et cardinal de Rome lequel a este nouvellement translate de latin en françoys a lhonneur et louenge dicelle tres digne Vierge.
This is a 1509 Paris printing by Jean Barbier of a French translation of Saint Bonaventure's Psalter of the Virgin Mary, a devotional prayer book for lay readers. The pages are black-letter text in two columns with large decorated initial letters that open each prayer, and a designer might take from them the dense rhythm of gothic type set beside ornate woodcut initials.
