The historiated initials from the Saccon Missal, also of 1500, all of the same type, are interesting from the fact that we are able to give the name of the engraver. In our collection of cut initials there is, amongst others, the S with several personages, and from the same book from which it is taken, and in the same type as on the verso of this initial, is a ‘dixit’ of five lines which speaks for itself:-- ‘Petrus Bertorius edidit Lambertus Campester illustravit Joannes Cobergerus erogavit expensis Jacobus Sacconius expressit Amor veritatis persuasit.’ Good missal initials are to be found also in the _Missale secundum ordinem Carthusiensem_ of Simon Bevilaqua, 1517, such as the C (saints with a palm-leaf), and the D (the Good Shepherd). The _Missale secundum ordinem fratrum predicatorum_ of Moylin, 1515, has also interesting ornamental letters. Of the two large A’s, one is from a missal, the other from a _Catalogus Sanctorum_ of Saccon. The G and the smaller P are both from Lyons missals. The three little pictures, one of which represents the expulsion of a devil, the two others the Apostles in a boat, are in reality ornamental initials with the letter, an I, in the right border, and belong to a volume of homilies printed by J. Poullet in 1505, in which every paragraph begins with the same letter. The fourth is one of those little cuts that are sometimes used in missals in the place of pictorial initials, and which, according to Dibdin, are to be classed with initials. It is not often that we meet with complete alphabets from single books, except in the case of works arranged by alphabetical order and dictionaries. Such is the case with the _Catholicon_, of which J. Wolff published an edition in 1503. Unfortunately the alphabet is not uniform, either in size, style, or subject, and some of the letters are of minor interest. We have selected the most curious and most uncommon. The four initials of the same kind, the halberdier U, the standard-bearer O, the page P, and the king D, are sometimes found in other volumes--in the _Aureum Opus_, for example. It is from the prologue of an edition of this work, printed for Gueynard in 1505 by De Vingle, that we have taken the very interesting Q of St. Jerome, which is also the subject of the first initial in the Saluzzo edition. We only know of one other letter of this size in the style of the _Catalogus_ series. As can be seen from our reproduction, it represents the Virgin, and is to be found at the beginning of a very rare and curious plaquette entitled ‘Plusieurs gentillesses pour faire en toutes bonnes compaignies. Et aussi plusieurs bonnes et utiles receptes esprouvées par Maistre Symon de Millan. On les vend a Lyon en la maison de feu Barnabé Chaussard.’