BADIUS, JOSSE, sometimes called BADIUS ASCENSUS, from the village of Asche, where he was born in 1462, an eminent French printer, whose printing establishment was celebrated under the name of Prelum Ascensianum. He illustrated with notes several of the works which he printed, and was himself the author of several pieces, particularly a life of Thomas a Kempis, and a satire on the follies of women, entitled Navicula Stultarum Mulierum. He died in 1535.