The next printer in Paris whose work, in connection with the production of classic literature, was important, was Jodocus Badius Ascensius. According to the record of the historian Panzer, there were produced from the Press of Badius not less than four hundred separate works, nearly all of which were printed in folio or quarto. The business career of Badius extended over a period of about twenty-five years, beginning with 1498. It is difficult to understand how it was practicable to secure at this early age a remunerative sale for costly editions of the Latin authors selected by Badius for his Press. He was a Fleming by birth, and, as was the case with not a few of the early printer-publishers, he united with his other business responsibilities work as an instructor. He gave lectures on the Latin poets, first in Paris and later in Lyons. It was in the latter city that he first interested himself in printing, having been engaged by Preschel as a corrector of the press. One of the more noteworthy of his publications, outside of the list of Latin classics, was an edition of the _Philobiblon_ of Richard de Bury. He was also the publisher of the first Paris edition of the _Navis Stultifera_ (the “Ship of Fools”) of Sebastian Brandt. Of this book he also printed a translation in French, (the second French version) under the title of _La Nef des Folz du Monde_, which was edited by himself and with which he included certain variations of his own. It may be considered as an evidence of the accepted orthodoxy of Badius that he was employed by the University to publish certain censorial works which had been prepared _ex cathedra_ by members of the Theological Faculty. Examples of these, printed respectively in 1521 and 1523, were treatises on the doctrine of Luther and on “certain contentions of Dr. Luther.” Among the more important works of later and contemporary authors that came from the Press of Badius were editions of the _Opera Omnia_ of Politian and of the _Opera Omnia_ of Valla, and a long series of works by Budæus, who ranked as one of the most comprehensive and voluminous scholars of his time. In 1500, Badius printed an edition of the _Regula S. Benedicti_, the famous Rule which, as described in an earlier chapter, had exercised so important and so abiding an influence on the literature and the intellectual development of Europe. Badius was a _libraire juré_ of the University, and the thoroughness of his scholarship was attested by so good an authority as Erasmus, for whom he published editions of the _Adagia_ and the _Praise of Folly_. The printing mark of Badius is a representation of the printing-press of the time. Beneath this he occasionally used the motto _Aere meret Badius laudem auctorum arte legentum_. Greswell says that by filling up the ellipsis, this is to be interpreted that Badius by his liberality elicits the praise of authors, and by his typographic skill and accuracy that of readers.