Five leaves, most with illuminated or historiated initials, from Bibles and liturgical manuscripts, in Latin [France, 13th-15th centuries]

five leaves, all vellum (a) 193x130mm, from a Bible, with a HISTORIATED INITIAL 'T' for the book of Tobit, 2 columns, 45 lines, 125x92mm [France (Paris), c.1250-75]; (b) 140x96mm, from a Psalter, 20 lines, 97x57mm, with enlarged illuminated initials at the beginning of Psalms 84 and 85, illuminated verse initials and line-fillers [northern France, mid-13th century]; (c) 240x155mm, from a Bible, 2 columns, 55 lines, 156x97mm, with pen-flourished initials, Revelation 18-21 [France, late 13th century]; (d) 201x140mm, from a Bible, 2 columns, 61 lines, 143x95mm, with pen-flourished initials, II Samuel 19-21 [France, late 13th or early 14th century]; (e) 187x144mm, f.263 from the CARONDELET BREVIARY, 2 columns, 29 lines, 120x91mm, with five illuminated foliate initials, with the feast of St Lucy (13 December) [France (Paris or Dôle), c.1458]

(e) was written by Jean d’Aussert for Étienne Carondelet, canon of Notre Dame, Dôle; the manuscript was sold at Sothmann, Amsterdam, 28 February 1985, and broken up; f.206 was bought by the Catharijneconvent Museum, Utrecht, in 2001.