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chapels, there appear to be, up to 1526, only five editions laying claim to a
privilege, and those within a restricted area. These are, in order of publi-
cation: a revised breviary of the diocese of Saint-Pol-de-Leon in Brittany,
printed 'cum priuilegio' (CP 1516, 6); a breviary printed by Thielman Kerver
for the royal abbey of Fontevrault (CH 1518, 7); a breviary for the Carthusians,
also by Kerver (CP 1522, 4); a missal of Clermont and Saint-Flour
(CH 1522, 3 (i)), for which the privilege was obtained by Jacques Mareschal
dit Roland at Lyon; and a missal of Poitiers 'cum priuilegio' (CP 1524, 3).
Devotional literature in the vernacular, for which there was an inexhaustible
market at this period, was the object of privileges in some cases. The
Contemplations historiees sur la passion, attributed to Gerson, came out under the
personal privilege held by Antoine Verard (CH 1507, i (4)). Simon Vostre
obtained a privilege for Le mirouer de penitence, by Francois Le Roy or Regius, of
Evreux, of the reformed order of Fontevrault An additional item concluded
this work, 'Le devot trespas de venerable et religieuse personne Frere Jacques
Daniel, docteur en chacun droit, et confesseur des filles Dieu de Paris . . .
nouvellement descript jouxte la reale verite par le confesseur de la Magdalene
d'Orleans, assistant a la dormition dudit frere Jacques Daniel.' It may have
been the inclusion of this account, perhaps almost amounting to a newsletter
and probably of considerable interest to pious circles in Paris, which decided
Simon Vostre to seek a privilege for it (PA 1512, 3).
Martin Morin of Rouen
obtained a grant from the Bailli for a work in French on the Immaculate
Conception by Pierre Le Fevre or Fabri (PR 1514, 5). Pasquier Le Moine, in
quest of a privilege from the royal chancery for his account of Francis I's
coronation and campaigns, took advantage of the opportunity to include
another work of his composition, L'ardant miroir de grace (CH 1519, 9). This is
an allegory of his journey through life, in which, after falling a victim to
several false guides, he is presented to Faith, Fortitude and Law, 'femmes de
grant et excellent estat', who are melting precious metals in a crucible to
produce the Burning Mirror of Grace. Guillaume Michel de Tours had a
privilege from the Prevot for his book La forest de conscience, another devout
allegorical tale (PR 1516, 2). Two anonymous sets of spiritual exercises,
forerunners of St Ignatius of Loyola, were included in a privilege granted the
same year to Regnault Chaudiere: Le livre de la discipline d'amour divine and Cy
commencent quatre voyes spirituelles pour aller a dieu (CH 1519, 6 (2 and 5)).
Guillaume Eustace published an edition of Le dialogue du crucifix
et du pelerin
written in 1486 by Guillaume Alexis, 1
prior of Bussy, on a pilgrimage to the
Holy Land where he died (CH 1521, i (i)). Under the same privilege,
1
(Euvres poetiques de Guillaume Alexis, ed. A. Piaget and E. Picot, 3 vols, SATF (1896-1908). The
Dialogue is printed in vol. HI, pp. 15123. Eustace's edition had been preceded by an edition
printed by Jean Trepperel, s.d. (1501 or 1502), 4. BN Res. 0.5022(3), both illustrated in the
SATF edition. Trepperel's edition may have been out of print by 1521, or Eustace may
genuinely not have known of its existence.
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