Lorloge de sapience nouvellement imprimee a paris.

Hand decoration: Contemporary French illuminated scenes attributed to the Master of the Chronique scandaleuse (leaves a1r, a5v, and n3v, over woodcuts), horizontal scenes at beginnings of individual books (over printed captions -- if painted scene, then printed caption is written in margin); rubrication, gilt initials and paragraph marks on dark red ground, and yellow capital strokes. 3 duplicate leaves added (leaves a1, a5, and n3 without the woodcuts), with illuminated scenes depicting the female patron of Vérard's edition, and with painted woodcut borders: 1) Vérard presenting book to a female dressed all in black, with four women kneeling behind her also in black veils; 2) 5 monks dressed all in white around a communal table, one monk kneeling outside with divine rays coming to him; 3) sleeping reader dreaming of (in the upper register): a Sapience reading to a group of men and (in the lower register): two groups of scholars debating while motioning towards a red ball. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations on text (eg. leaf l3r-v) and several tiny clover-markings.