Le vergier do[n]neur ... ensemble plusieurs aultres choses faictes [et] composees par ... Octouien de Sainct Gelais ... et par maistre Andry de La Vigne

Saint-Gelais, Octavien de, 1468-1502, La Vigne, André de, approximately 1457-approximately 1527, Trepperel, Jean, active 1491-1511, printer, Backer, Hector Marie Auguste de, 1843-1925, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1500 · Paris, Jean Treperel [ca. 1500] · 8 pictures

Le vergier d'honneur is a French verse anthology printed in Paris by Jean Trepperel around 1500, compiled under the names of Octavien de Saint-Gelais and André de La Vigne for a courtly and literate readership. Its woodcuts show scholars at desks, a bedside scene with mourners, a walled town with costumed figures, and a siege with a cannon and scaling ladders; a designer could draw on their compact, hatched line work and their stacked picture-and-text layout.

Charles · France · Incunabula · King of france · Paris · Poetry · Viii

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