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Manuscript & Early Printed Leaves. Single leaf from a miniature Book of Hours, Italy, circa 1460-80, single vellum leaf, with 15 lines of handwritten text in latin, in brown ink, with red rubrics, and three 2-line initials in red or blue, the three main paragraphs beginning 'Fidelium deus omnium conditor et redemptor...', 'Actiones nostras que sum domine aspirando preveni...', and 'Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui vivor dominaris simul et mortuorum omnium...', sheet size 116 x 87 mm, together with a single printed leaf from an incunable Benedictional (a collection of prayers and blessings for use in the Roman Catholic church), circa 1480, printed in two columns, with rubrics in red, on laid paper, with watermark of a bull's head, sheet size 28.6 x 20.3 cm, a single printed leaf from an early 16th century chronicle (possibly Livy), printed in German and with large hand-coloured text illustration depicting Cornelius Scipio (Scipio Africanus) meeting the KIngs of Numidia and Africa, folio, sheet size 290 x 200 mm, three further similar printed folio leaves, early 16th century, with text in German, one with text from the Gospel of Saint Luke (from a mid-16th century German bible in Luther's translation), one leaf from the Apocalypse of Saint John, and one other from a chronicle of the world, all three leaves with hand-coloured illustrations, a copper engraved illustration of the Siege of Amsterdam in 1577, by Braun & Hogenberg, two leaves from George Bickham's Universal Penman (1743), and a coloured engraved portrait of William of Orange (Qty: 10)