[Illustration: Journal Spirituel. Paris: Vérard, 1505.] Cy finist le Journal spirituel Imprime a paris pour honnorable homme Anthoine Verard bourgoys marchant et libraire demorant a paris deuant la Rue neufue notre dame a lymage sainct Jehan leuangeliste ou au palais deuant la cha- pelle ou lon chante la messe de mes- seigneurs les presidentz. Lan mil cinq cens et cinq le seziesme iour de decembre. Here ends the Spiritual Journal printed at Paris for an estimable man Antoine Vérard burgess, shopkeeper, and bookseller dwelling at Paris before the New Street of Our Lady at the image of Saint John the Evangelist or at the palace before the cha- pel where is chanted the Mass of the Lords Presidents. In the year one thousand five hundred and five, the sixteenth day of December. Occasionally a verse colophon would be employed to tempt a purchaser to come to the publisher’s shop, as in the case of the French translation of the “Ship of Fools” by Jodocus Badius from the German of Sebastian Brant, printed by Geoffroy de Marnef in 1497. This ends: Hommes mortels qui desirez sauoir Comment on peut en ce monde bien vivre Et mal laisser: approchez, venez veoir Et visiter ce present joyeux livre. A tous estats bonne doctrine il livre Notant les maux et vices des mondains. Venez y tous et ne faictes dedains Du dit livre nomme Des Fols la Nef Si vous voulez vous en trouuerez maints Au Pellican cheux Geoffroy de Marnef. Mortal men who fain would know How well to live in this world below, And evil quit: come hither, see, And with this book acquainted be. To each estate good rede it gives, Notes all the evils in men’s lives. Come hither, all, and think no shame Of this said book, which has to name The Ship of Fools. You’ll find good store if in you’ll drop At honest Geoffroy Marnef’s shop, Where the Pelican rules. As to advertisements of cheapness, in addition to instances already incidentally noted we may take as our example another colophon partly in verse—that to the edition of the “Liber cibalis et medicinalis pandectarum” of Matthaeus Silvaticus printed at Naples by Arnold of Brussels in 1474. Explicit liber Pandectarum quem Angelus Cato Supinas de Beneuento philosophus et medicus magna cum diligentia et emendate imprimendum curauit, et in clarissima et nobilissima atque praestantissima dulcissimaque ciuitate Neapoli, regum, ducum, procerumque matre, prima Aprilis M.cccc.Lxxiiii. Idcirco excelso deo gratias agamus.