Orus Apollo de Aegypte De la signification des notes hieroglyphiques des Aegyptiens : cest a dire des figures par les quelles ilz escripuoient leurs mysteres secretz, & les choses sainctes & diuines
Horapollo, Jacques Kerver (Printer), Ian Martin (Translator), Jean Cousin (Illustrator), Jean Goujon (Illustrator)
Print Book, Middle French, 1543
Par Iacques Keruer, On les uend a Paris a la rue Sainct Iacques a lenseigne des deux coches, 1543
Woodcuts
[208] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 17 cm (8vo)
83372730
Colophon reads: Imprime a Paris pour Iaques Keruer libraire iure en luniuersite de Paris & fut acheue de imprimer le xxiij iour de Nouembre mil cinq cens.xliij
Signatures: a-n⁸
Gathering k signed "lz."
Of the 197 woodcuts, seven are repeats and the last ten and their text were added by the translator, probably Jean Martin. The 5 x 5 cm. woodcuts have been attributed to Jean Cousin (probably the elder) and to Jean Goujon. Mortimer opines that at least two different artists were involved. Cancel woodcuts are mounted over misprinted cuts on a6v and a8v in most copies