Xylographic half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf v5v: Explicit lorloge de Sapience Imprime a paris ce diziesme iour de mars mil quatre cens quatre vings et treze par anthoine verard libraire demourant a paris sur le pont nostre dame a lymaige sai[n]t iejan levangeliste ou au palais au premier pillier devant la chapelle ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Vérard's device, leaf v6r.
Printed in Vérard's type 13:118G.
Signatures: [1]²; a-t⁸ v⁶: 160 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
3 woodcut illustrations, from 1 block (a1r, a5r, and n3v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.4 x 18.6 cm.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy with 3 added leaves: a1, a5, and n3, with additional illuminated scenes representing female patron, see Diskant Muir, "The Woman in Black;" Winn suggests these leaves are from the NYPL copy.
L'orloge de sapience
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.