The most common of all these initials is the one which occurs on the title-page of the _Doctrinal de Sapience_, and of this we have preferred the Geneva copy. The French composition which is known as the January and May L, and is much more insipid, would appear to have been most popular, recurring in a great many books both of Paris and Lyons. Another L frequently seen, of which Mr. Pollard in his _Early Illustrated Books_ gives a copy, was first used for the _Livre du Faulcon_; the top of the letter curves down to end in the head of some imaginary bird, between the two grotesque profiles. In some books this part has been removed, the letter presenting the appearance of having been cut down. Of our selections, the L with two heads on the left and a collection of dragons on the right, one of which is disgorging a fool complete with cap, bells, and _marotte_, is from the title-page of a Melusine, but is met with in other books. The letter with the two heads, a monkey and two birds, which occurs also in other publications, was taken from the _Somme Rurale_ of Pierre Boutellier. The L with only one human head and a bird separated by the head and neck of an imaginary reptile can be seen in _Demandes d’Amour_, _Le Cordial_, _Les Quinze_, _Joies de Marriage_, _Le Doctrinal des Femmes mariées_. As to the initial with Eve, it is to be found on the title-page of the _Livre des Marchands_, of the _Legende Dorée_, as well as on some others. As a last example of these large calligraphic letters, we give the large L with three profiles. In an entirely different style is a magnificent Q on a black ground, representing St. George and the Dragon, from an edition of the _Mer des Hystoires_ by Michel Topie, without doubt one of the most effective of the Lyons initials. There is a well-cut A at the commencement of Breidenbach’s _Sainct voyage de la cité de Hierusalem_, which Claudin attributes to Gaspard Ortuin. This book contains the first specimens of Arabic characters printed in France. We now come to a series of letters from the missal of Pierre Hongre of 1500, some of which had been used in the missal of Uzès, published by Jean Neumeister and Michel Topie in 1497. This lending or hiring of typographical ornaments was very common amongst Lyons printers, as can be seen by a comparison of the books of different publishers, and as is proved by an agreement of the time, between Michel Topie and an Angevin printer, discovered by the Abbé Requin amongst some old notarial deeds. The letters of Pierre Hongre’s missal represent, as usual, Biblical scenes, and although of an archaic type, the attitudes are true, and they are animated by a sincere and artistic sentiment. The subjects of the different letters speak for themselves. The T, as usual, is the sacrifice of Abraham; the C the martyrdom of St. Stephen; the D the Nativity, etc. Many of these are to be found afterwards in other missals, such as the missals _Narbone_, _Aquensis_, _Matisconensis_, etc.