• Detail of a miniature of Nature appearing to the author, Jean de Courcy, in a dream and showing him the lady Vaillance, at the beginning of book 1., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

labels of three or five points for his sons (f. 1), and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, with a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit' (ff. 1, 30, 77, 103v, 145, 163v, 194, 218, 250,

• Text page., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

labels of three or five points for his sons (f. 1), and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, with a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit' (ff. 1, 30, 77, 103v, 145, 163v, 194, 218, 250,

• Miniature of a hermit instructing a knight, at the beginning of the Libre del Orde de cavayleria of Ramón Lull in anonymous French translation., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

labels of three or five points for his sons (f. 1), and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, with a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit' (ff. 1, 30, 77, 103v, 145, 163v, 194, 218, 250,

• Detail of a miniature of a hermit instructing a squire, at the beginning of the Libre del Orde de cavayleria of Ramón Lull in anonymous French translation., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

labels of three or five points for his sons (f. 1), and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, with a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit' (ff. 1, 30, 77, 103v, 145, 163v, 194, 218, 250,

• Detail of a border with birds, at the beginning of the Libre del Orde de cavayleria of Ramón Lull in anonymous French translation., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

labels of three or five points for his sons (f. 1), and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, with a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit' (ff. 1, 30, 77, 103v, 145, 163v, 194, 218, 250,

• Text page with a space left for a miniature, at the beginning of the rubric, 'Charite parle des angeles'., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

labels of three or five points for his sons (f. 1), and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, with a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit' (ff. 1, 30, 77, 103v, 145, 163v, 194, 218, 250,

• Text page, with a space left for an initial, at the beginning of Le breviaire des nobles of Alain Chartier., Le chemin de Vaillance, and other texts (see Notes below for contents)

labels of three or five points for his sons (f. 1), and a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, with a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit' (ff. 1, 30, 77, 103v, 145, 163v, 194, 218, 250,

• Miniature of Heloise addressing her pupil, and a group of women, with a full border containing the Yorkist motto 'Dieu et mon droit', an ostrich feather with a motto 'Ic dene', a crowned Beaufort's badge of a portcullis, and a red rose of Lancaster supported by a white greyhound and a red dragon; and an illuminated initial 'T'(ous) with a fleur de lis., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demandes d'amour; Le livre dit grace entiere sur le fait du gouvernement d'un prince

Ireland adapted for him: the royal arms of England (ff. 1, 73) and the arms of his wife, Elisabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, surmounted by crowns (f. 1) and impaled (f. 188), with two mottos 'la plus eure'

• Detail of a miniature of Heloise addressing her pupil, and a group of women., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demandes d'amour; Le livre dit grace entiere sur le fait du gouvernement d'un prince

Ireland adapted for him: the royal arms of England (ff. 1, 73) and the arms of his wife, Elisabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, surmounted by crowns (f. 1) and impaled (f. 188), with two mottos 'la plus eure'

• Detail of the red rose of Lancaster, with a hound and dragon, in the lower margin of the folio., Poems; Art d'amour; Les demandes d'amour; Le livre dit grace entiere sur le fait du gouvernement d'un prince

Ireland adapted for him: the royal arms of England (ff. 1, 73) and the arms of his wife, Elisabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, surmounted by crowns (f. 1) and impaled (f. 188), with two mottos 'la plus eure'

• Detail of the miniature of the Martyrdom of Blaise., Cuttings from a Missal of Clement VII

Hofer Bequest MS Typ 734. Former Esther Rosenbaum Collection (see Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1983, lot 213 [not illustrated]).Former New York, Breslauer Collection (see Voelkle and Wieck, cat. no. 90).Former London, Northwick Collection (see Sotheby’s, London, 16 November 1925, lot

• Montage composed of a miniature of the Assumption of the Virgin above the inscription 'Assumpta Est Maria' (centre); a three-sided historiated border of the arms of Clement VII, the Medici devices of a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper' and a yoke with motto 'Suave', two prophets in medallions and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic grotesques (left); and a single historiated border of the Medici device of the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other striking the banner but with no effect, two prophets in medallions and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic grotesques (right)., Cuttings from a Missal of Clement VII

Hofer Bequest MS Typ 734. Former Esther Rosenbaum Collection (see Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1983, lot 213 [not illustrated]).Former New York, Breslauer Collection (see Voelkle and Wieck, cat. no. 90).Former London, Northwick Collection (see Sotheby’s, London, 16 November 1925, lot

• Montage composed of a miniature of the Martyrdom of Blaise surmounted by two Medici devices of a yoke with motto 'Suave' (centre); a three-sided historiated border of the arms of Clement VII, the Medici devices of a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper' and the motto 'Candor Illesus' inscribed on a banner curling round a tree and a trunk supporting a crystal ball through which pass sun rays, one of which hits the tree causing it to burst into flames and the other striking the banner but with no effect, and two sibyls in medallions and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic grotesques (left); and a single historiated border of the Medici 'Candor Illesus' device, two prophets in medallions and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic grotesques (right)., Cuttings from a Missal of Clement VII

Hofer Bequest MS Typ 734. Former Esther Rosenbaum Collection (see Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1983, lot 213 [not illustrated]).Former New York, Breslauer Collection (see Voelkle and Wieck, cat. no. 90).Former London, Northwick Collection (see Sotheby’s, London, 16 November 1925, lot

• Historiated and foliate full border with three medallions of half-length figures of God the Father, a saint writing and a prophet holding a scroll inscribed: 'ecce virgo conc(ipiet) et pa(riet filium)', with a historiated initial 'V'(ultum) of the Annunciation with display script for the textual opening with letters in a four-colour sequence, and a foliate initial 'E'(uctavit)., Leaves from a Missal of Cardinal Domenico della Rovere

nomination as cardinal in 1478 and the death of Sixtus IV in 1484. The three other volumes are now New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib., M. 306 and Turin, Archivio di Stato, MSS J. b. II.3-4. It is probable that the