vint le trouver, idiomatic, ' came to him

5. le nouvel art venu d'Allemagne, the art of printing, invented by tlie German Gutenberg, about 1436.

8. ceux-ci. It is net very clear to wliich noun ceux-ci refers ; it is certainly not to les gens de naissance ou de la cour, who hâve nothing to do with capital letters ; logically, it can only refer to copistes. The sentence is awkward.

17. Plus d'un an. Why plus de instead of plus gue^ Translate, ' He is two years older tlian I.'