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The von Wolkenstein Breviary, 1499. Franciscan Use. Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment from Italy, Ferrara. With 12 Historiated Initials, 25 Illuminated Initials, and Several Large Borders

Leaf From an Illuminated Book of Hours with a Historiated Initial, Northern France, Circa 1470. Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum. Psalms 122-123, with a Large Border

Leaf From an Illuminated Book of Hours, France (Burgundy?), Circa 1475. Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum. De Profundis from the Office of the Dead, and Psalms 132-133. Two Lavishly Illuminated Borders

Leaf From an Extravagantly Illuminated Book of Hours, Paris, Circa 1440-1460. Folio 88 from the Penitential Psalms, including Psalm 6. Masterfully Illuminated Manuscript by Jean Hancelin and the Master of Saint Stephen

Summa Theologica, 1496. Volume II of III in Two Tomes. Aquinas’s Masterpiece, Rubricated and in Original Boards

De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum. Tr: Marsilius Ficinus. Add: Proclus: In Platonicum Alcibiadem; De sacrificio et magia; Porphyrius: De divinis et daemonibus... Psellus: De daemonibus…, 1497. The First Aldine Iamblichus

Leaf From an Extravagantly Illuminated Book of Hours, Paris, Circa 1440-1460. Folio 81 from the Hours of the Virgin. Masterfully Illuminated Manuscript by Jean Hancelin and the Master of Saint Stephen

Book of Hours Calendar, Use of Paris, Circa 1450. Extravagantly Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum from France, By the Circle of the Master of Jean Rolin II, With Full Borders

Polyhistor, sive De Mirabilibus Mundi, sive Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium, 1474-1475. Wonders of the World, with An Illuminated Opening

Confessionale sive Interrogatorium; Bound With; Interrogationes faciende infirmo morienti, 1474. Rare at Auction, and Nicely Illuminated, in Early Paper Wraps. Rare at Auction

Opera: Sermones, Epistolae et alia Opuscula, 1494. The Complete Works of Kempis Including His Imitation of Christ and Meditations on the Incarnation of Christ, Nicely Rubricated

Bifolium from an Illuminated Book of Hours, France, Circa 1450. Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment. Psalms 24-25, with Outer Borders