6-615: Guy Marchant (also Gui or Guyot ; in Latin Guido Mercator ) was a printer of books, active in Paris from 1483 to 1505/1506. He had received a university education as a Master of Arts and is recorded as being a priest. He was succeeded by his nephew Jean Marchant (1504–1516). He worked at first at an address in the Champ gaillart behind the Collège de Navarre. In 1493 he was at the sign of
12-586: A series of works with 'magnificent woodcuts, including some of the finest illustrative work of the period'. These include five editions of the Danse macabre and seven editions of the Compost et kalendrier des bergers and an edition of the Calendrier des bergères . The Calendrier was translated into Scots English by Alexander Barclay ( The Kalendayr of the shyppars , published by Antoine Vérard in 1503); an English version
18-551: The Lily ( ad intersignium floris lilii ) in the rue Saint Jacques. From 1499 he worked at an address called Beauregard ( in Bellovisu ) behind the Collège de Boncourt where his nephew Jean continued to work. Marchant used six different printer's devices, several showing a shoemaker's workshop. Most of these devices have the motto Sola fides sufficit (where the word sola is a musical rebus with
24-462: The college. Jacques Grévin was a student here as well as Etienne Jodelle , Jean Bastier de La Péruse , Jean de La Taille and André de Rivaudeau [ fr ] . The college was once completely refurbished in 1688 by Pierre Galand, its principal. It was attached to the College de Navarre . Then, from 1738, a new pavilion took the place of the old college. From 1804 to 1976, the building housed
30-470: The notes Sol and La). The ISTC Database records about 190 editions printed by (or attributed to) the press of Guy Marchant up to the year 1500. A further 10 or 12 were printed in the sixteenth century before the business was taken over by Jean Marchant. Marchant's typographical material is enumerated in BMC volume 8. Marchant's output was mainly of moderate-sized devotional texts but he is particularly famous for
36-445: Was produced in 1506. Coll%C3%A8ge de Boncourt The Collège de Boncourt , in the (now) 5th arrondissement of Paris , rue Bordet or Bordeille (modern rue Descartes), was established in 1353 by Pierre Becoud (which became "Boncourt" by alteration) During the 16th century, comedies and tragedies were often performed on the site, particularly Cléopâtre captive , a tragedy by Étienne Jodelle . Marc-Antoine Muret taught in
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