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From Northern France. Illuminated leaf with elaborate border showing a banner, ivy, flowers in blue and red, as well as woodland creatures.

Seven four-line staves in red.

From a Latin manuscript dated 1434, containing the "sermones" of Simon de Cremona, prepared in the Scriptorium (as monastic writing-rooms were called) of the famous Carthusian monastery at Buxheim. Caspar Misnensis was the scribe, and he informs us…

Illuminated with red and blue bordering around the capital letters and ivy in the margins.

Illuminated 15 line leaf with vines and strawberries on the outer edge of the leaf. Foliated with a 97 in the upper right hand corner of the recto side of the leaf.

"From an early legal manuscript, 1280-1320 A. D., an original handwritten folio leaf of a very early and rare Italian codex of civil and canon law combined. The work is executed in double columns of the finest gothic book hand of the period and is a…

"From Los Virtuosos Varones, author unknown. A Portuguese manuscript on the nobility of the Portuguese aristocracy, circa 1450. An unusual work on fine paper with the distinctive barbed design of the initial letters that mark it with the Portuguese…

From the Abbey of St. Louis at Poissey in Paris. Seven four line staves in red.

"From Flemish Book of Hours. A striking leaf with the customary wide margins and very careful workmanship. This manuscript, circa 1250-1300, reflects the Flemish or Northern French influence in the few initial letters where a clay base is encrusted…

"From a 15th century breviary manuscript or by a monastic scribe, probably in the Low Countries or in Northern France, circa 1490. Compact Gothic lettering is typical of all medieval breviaries and similar small books of devotion, as is the fine…