The large calligraphic M with the arms of Normandy adorns the title-page of the missal of Arras, _Missale Atrebatense_, and also that of the _Missale Noviomense_ of 1506, both of which were printed by Martin Morin, and the twelve initials in red comprise most of the ornamental letters distributed through the two volumes. There are also some grotesque lettrines similar to those found in many Rouen impressions, and such as have been given from the Psalterium of Harentals. Another large calligraphic initial, and nine smaller ones, are from a Rouen edition of the _Propriétaire_, printed for Francis Regnault by Jacques le Forestier, which, unlike the Lyons and Paris editions of the same date, 1520-30, is without the series of twelve Zodiac letters that precedes the paragraphs of the little treatise ‘On Men and Women’ at the end of the volume. The three smaller initials of the same size, A, B (David and his harp), and R, the two somewhat larger--a D with a compound animal with a long snaky neck, and a P with a grotesque, together with the P with a schoolmaster armed with his birch and about to operate, are from another edition of the _Coustumier de Normandie_ of 1523. The A, surmounted by a crown with a saint below, with the D, a swan, and the S with two animals, are met with also in other books, but were reproduced from the _Opera Guilelmi Monachi Valladii_, without name of printer or date, but printed at Rouen by Hostingue in 1505. The M is the same as in the missals of M. Morin, and there is the same P as in Harentals’ Psalter, but in very bad proofs. Our last specimens are from the alphabet of Jacques Forestier, or rather of Jacques le Gentil. Most of the letters are to be found in a 1525 edition of _Commines_ which had always, on the authority of Brunet, passed for having been printed at Paris. Claudin, however, noticed that the verso of the last page had the arms of Rouen and the mark of Jacques Forestier, and the recto says ‘Imprimé par J. G.’ This J. G. was Jacques le Gentil, son-in-law to J. Forestier, to whose business he succeeded, using for a time his father-in-law’s mark. In the _Commines_ there are sixteen different initials, but neither of the two with profiles, D and G. These, with some of the others, are to be found in the _Grand Coustumier du Pays et Duché de Normandie_ of 1523, already mentioned, and in a book entitled _Divi Gregorii Magni et ecclesie doctoris precipua opera_, printed at Rouen in 1521 at the expense of that most honest man and most famous bookseller, Francis Regnault of Paris. From a typographical point of view Avignon is interesting on account of the claim that has been made for it as the birthplace of printing by the Abbé Requin. This is based upon notarial records of 1444, but the invention, in the opinion of the late M. Claudin, was in reality a primitive form of typewriting.