• null, Register book of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, York

15). Smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing including human heads. Register book of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, York Heading 'Liber ordinacionis Fraternitatis corporis Christi fundate in Ebor ... Incepte Anno domini millesimo cccc^o^ octavo' (f. 15).William Petty

• Decorated initials., Register book of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, York

15). Smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing including human heads. Register book of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, York Heading 'Liber ordinacionis Fraternitatis corporis Christi fundate in Ebor ... Incepte Anno domini millesimo cccc^o^ octavo' (f. 15).William Petty

• Decorated initial 'H'(ec), at the beginning of the Liber ordinacionis fraternitatis Corporis Christi Eboracensis., Register book of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, York

15). Smaller initials in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing including human heads. Register book of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, York Heading 'Liber ordinacionis Fraternitatis corporis Christi fundate in Ebor ... Incepte Anno domini millesimo cccc^o^ octavo' (f. 15).William Petty

• Historiated initial 'D' or 'O' of Christ Disputing with the Merchants. The robe of the figure to the right is inscribed 'A. P. S. VITV. SI?S'., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index antiphonary, antiphonal)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), cat. no. 52a); New York, The

• Historiated initial 'N' (cropped; the lower part of the letter is visible at the top right of the miniature) of the Last Supper beneath a cartouche inscribed in capitals 'Desiderio desideravi / hoc pascha manduc / are vobiscum', surrounded by a frame composed of four cuttings., Cuttings from a Missal of Paul III

Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Fragment 1959/123 and former New York, Breslauer Collection (from A.II.14; see William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck, ~The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations~ (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1992), cat. no. 91). 1

• Border of floral motifs and bezants with a medallion inscribed 'L.X.P.M.', the initials of Leo X, surmounted by a seated, winged putto, measuring 430 x 45 mm., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

December 1997, lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

• Border of floral motifs and bezants with a winged putto holding a tablet inscribed 'L.X.P.M.', the initials of Leo X, and Medici device of a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper'. The present border is composed of three cuttings, measuring 205 x 45 mm, 135 x 45 mm and 185 x 45 mm., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

December 1997, lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

• Border of floral motifs and bezants with a kneeling winged putto and the Medici device of a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper'. The present border is composed of two cuttings, the first measuring 200 x 45 mm and the second 240 x 45 mm., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

December 1997, lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

• Border of floral motifs, bezants and a zoomorphic lion's head with a winged putto standing on a medallion inscribed 'L.X.P.M.', measuring 455 x 45 mm., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

December 1997, lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

• Border of floral motifs and bezants with the Medici devices of a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper' flanked by two winged putti and a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave surmounted by an initial 'N' within a medallion, measuring 435 x 55 mm. Gold filigree ornament has been applied vertically on the left of the border., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

December 1997, lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

• Historiated and foliate border of a medallion with the Medici device of a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave' surmounted by a standing winged putto, measuring 445 x 45 mm., Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X

December 1997, lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, ~Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

• Historiated full-page border of a portrait, the arms, unicorn, rainbow and lily emblems and Greek motto 'Dikes krinon' of Paul III, shells, flowers, putti, urns, butterflies and ladybirds (the text excised). Historiated initial 'N' (cropped; the lower part of the letter is visible at the top right of the miniature) of the Last Supper beneath a cartouche inscribed in capitals 'Desiderio desideravi / hoc pascha manduc / are vobiscum', surrounded by a frame composed of four cuttings., Cuttings from a Missal of Paul III

Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Fragment 1959/123 and former New York, Breslauer Collection (from A.II.14; see William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck, ~The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations~ (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1992), cat. no. 91). 1

• Initial 'T' of the dedication of a church., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index Antiphonal, antiphonary)

26, 28-30, 32, 33abc, 34abc; Paris, Musée National du Moyen Âge-Thermes, 22712-22713; Plzen (Czeck Republic), Západoceské Muzeum, inv. 2972; New York, ex-Stern Collection; Washington National Gallery of Art, inv. B 14842.Musical notation. 1 historiated initial 'T' in colours and gold,

• null, Château d'Amour, called 'The Myrour of Lewed Men' (translated into English)

(£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Flourished initials Robert Grosseteste York England, N. E.? (York)

• Detail of a miniature of the Nativity of John the Baptist., Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'), Use of Rome (index Breviary of Jean sans Peur)

(see Meiss 1974, esp. p. 232), started in c. 1410 after the completion of the Belles Heures in 1409 (New York, Cloister's, Acc. No. 54.1.1).This manuscript (summer portion) formed originally a single volume together with Additional 35311 (winter portion). The

• Detail of lower border with a woman holding shields with the arms of John the Fearless (d. 1419), duke of Burgundy, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria., Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'), Use of Rome (index Breviary of Jean sans Peur)

(see Meiss 1974, esp. p. 232), started in c. 1410 after the completion of the Belles Heures in 1409 (New York, Cloister's, Acc. No. 54.1.1).This manuscript (summer portion) formed originally a single volume together with Additional 35311 (winter portion). The

• Detail of a table of signs and images used in the text to mark some of the subjects treated in the text, with explanations of their meanings., Series causae inter Henricum regem et Thomam archiepiscopum, Abbreviationes chronicorum, and Imagines historiarum

Dunstable in 1209-1210, from which he made excerpts: see Lucas 2006.Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii), 16th century (f. i).The Old Royal

• null, Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'), Use of Rome (index Breviary of Jean sans Peur)

(see Meiss 1974, esp. p. 232), started in c. 1410 after the completion of the Belles Heures in 1409 (New York, Cloister's, Acc. No. 54.1.1).This manuscript (summer portion) formed originally a single volume together with Additional 35311 (winter portion). The

• null, Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'), Use of Rome (index Breviary of Jean sans Peur)

(see Meiss 1974, esp. p. 232), started in c. 1410 after the completion of the Belles Heures in 1409 (New York, Cloister's, Acc. No. 54.1.1).This manuscript (summer portion) formed originally a single volume together with Additional 35311 (winter portion). The

• Illuminated initials., Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'), Use of Rome (index Breviary of Jean sans Peur)

(see Meiss 1974, esp. p. 232), started in c. 1410 after the completion of the Belles Heures in 1409 (New York, Cloister's, Acc. No. 54.1.1).This manuscript (summer portion) formed originally a single volume together with Additional 35311 (winter portion). The