The title-page is enclosed in a very pleasing border,[341] and it has moreover an engraving of the Pot Cassé reversed.[342] On the verso are the arms of France.[343]
Folio 1 of text: the letter L, which I have already reproduced.[344]
Folio 3 verso: the Gallic Hercules. This engraving, dated 1526, and signed with the Lorraine cross, represents Hercules holding his club in one hand and a bow in the other. He is followed by divers persons of all conditions, fastened by the ear to a chain that issues from the hero's mouth. This is an allusion to the power of eloquence over the French. The strength of the Gallic Hercules lies not in his arms but in his mouth.[345]
Folio 9 verso: cut of the lisflambe, a species of lily; it is the swamp iris, called to-day the iris flambe.
Here the first book ends.
The second contains thirty-seven geometrical figures, which it would be no less difficult than unprofitable to describe. They are, for the most part, representations of different letters. At the end of this book is the 'Triumph of Apollo and the Muses,' 'to show that they who have knowledge of goodly letters have the advantage over the ignorant.' This engraving, which is in two parts,[346] both signed with the Lorraine cross (folios 29 verso and 30 recto), represents Apollo in a chariot, escorted by the Muses, Liberal Arts, etc., and followed by Bacchus, Ceres and Venus as prisoners.[347]
On the very last page (folio 30 recto) is an engraving of the lisflambe surmounted by an A made up of three I's.[348]