BADIUS, JODOCUS or JOSSE, sometimes called BADIUS ASCENSUS, from the village of Asche near Brussels, where he was born in 1462, was an eminent printer at Paris, whose establishment was celebrated under the name of Prelum Ascensianum. He illustrated with notes several of the classics which he printed, and was himself the author of numerous pieces, amongst which are a life of Thomas à Kempis, and a satire on the follies of women, entitled Navicula Stultarum Mulierum. He died in 1535.