• Miniature depicting a battle scene, decorated initial 'L'(istoire) including heraldic arms and foliate borders., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Miniature depicting a battle scene at sea, decorated initial 'L'(istoire) including heraldic arms and foliate borders., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Miniature depicting a battle on a bridge., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Miniature of Christians fighting Saracens and a decorated initial 'E'(n) including heraldic arms., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Miniature of a battle scene, decorated initial 'L'(istoire) including heraldic arms and foliate borders., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Miniature of an assassination scene, decorated initial 'L'(istoire) including heraldic arms and foliate borders., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Miniature depicting nobles entering a city, decorated initial 'L'(e) including heraldic arms and foliate borders., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Miniature depicting a castle siege, decorated initial 'L'(istoire) including heraldic arms and foliate borders., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Miniature of a sea battle., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Miniature depicting a battle scene, decorated initial 'L'(istoire) including heraldic arms and foliate borders., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Detail of miniature depicting the women and maidens of Paris facing two dragons., Roman de Mélusine (ends imperfectly)

arms and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 17, 36, 43v, 56, 66v, 80v, 88v, 99, 113, 118v, 140v, 160v, 174, 190, 204v, 214v); 1 miniature probably excised after f. 7. Small initials (1-2 lines), paraphs

• Historiated initial 'I' of the eagle symbol of John, extension of acanthus-like foliage and bezants with single hair-line embellishment, at the beginning of a Gospel extract from John 1:1-14., Leaves from a Book of Hours, containing Gospel extracts: John 1:1-14, Matthew 2:1-12, Mark 16:14-120 and Luke 6:36-42

by Goertz for £35.Mrs Constance Goetze (d. 1951), wife of Sigismund C.H. Goetze, RA (b. 1866, d. 1939): her sale, 1 December 1942, lot 344, bought by Eisemann.Heinrich Eisemann, twentieth-century London book-dealer.The present leaves and bifolia purchased by the British

• Decorated initial 'A'(n) with pen-flourishing., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae), for 1-38 Edward III (ff. 1-77), and other legal texts, imperfect

red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours including foliate motifs extending into the borders on all sides (f. 1). Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs and flowers (ff. 5v (with face), 9, 12, 14v,

• Text page with title in rustic capitals., Retractatio de animae quantitate (index On the Size of the Soul) (ff. 1-32v); Paschalis operis (index Carmen paschale), libri 5 (ff. 33-70v), Commentary on the Apocalypse (ff. 71-84v)

Ganz, 'the hands show marked Tours influence especially in the half uncial.' Title in rustic capitials and 1 large initial in red (f. 1). Plain initials in black. Rubrics and abbreviations of protagonists' names in red. Retractatio de animae quantitate

• Detail of arms., Orations and letters (ff. 1-147); Invectivum in Ciceronem (ff. 147v-149)

Detail of arms. 1 large white vine initial and a full white vine border, incorporating heraldry, in colours and gold (f. 1). 14 large white vine initials, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 30v, 37, 44v, 53v, 69v, 94, 102,

• Diagram charting rainfall., Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis

37, 40v, 43v (x2), 48v, 50v, 53v). 1 initial in red and green with penwork decoration (f. 1).1 initial in red (f. 41). 1 initial in brown with some red (f. 1). Simple initials in brown. Apart from the

• Diagram of a mappa mundi., Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis

37, 40v, 43v (x2), 48v, 50v, 53v). 1 initial in red and green with penwork decoration (f. 1).1 initial in red (f. 41). 1 initial in brown with some red (f. 1). Simple initials in brown. Apart from the

• Miniature of Prudence writing at a desk, with pupils sitting in front of her, and a foliate initial 'C'(es), at the beginning of the rubric 'De la vertu de prudence'., La somme le roi, with Gospels and the Complainte de Notre Dame

de France, fr. 241) (quires 2, 4-8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 18, 21, 26, 28).Catchwords and bifolium signatures. 1 large (f. 1) and 23 one-column miniatures in colours and gold, at the beginning of books (ff. 3v, 5, 16v, 26v,

• Miniature of a man and a women at a table with a man drinking from a cup, illustrating the virtue of temperence, and a foliate initial 'L'(a vertu), at the beginning of the rubric 'De la vertu datrempance', and a miniature of a personification of Fortitude holding a disk with a lion, and a foliate initial 'L'(a vertu), at the beginning of the rubric 'De la vertu de force'., La somme le roi, with Gospels and the Complainte de Notre Dame

de France, fr. 241) (quires 2, 4-8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 18, 21, 26, 28).Catchwords and bifolium signatures. 1 large (f. 1) and 23 one-column miniatures in colours and gold, at the beginning of books (ff. 3v, 5, 16v, 26v,

• Detail of a miniature of the Apostles composing the creed., La somme le roi, with Gospels and the Complainte de Notre Dame

de France, fr. 241) (quires 2, 4-8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 18, 21, 26, 28).Catchwords and bifolium signatures. 1 large (f. 1) and 23 one-column miniatures in colours and gold, at the beginning of books (ff. 3v, 5, 16v, 26v,