Even where the attributions to a country or century are incorrect, or absent, positive identifications can be made based on other features such as the dimensions and numbers of leaves:
They are as follows:
- 480-1: Bible
- Brölemann-Mallet sale, lot 2; bought by Permain for £310
- Now Washington D.C., Library of Congress, MS. 5
- 480-2: Franciscan Breviary
- Brölemann-Mallet sale, lot 15; bought by Permain for £450
- Now Wormsley Library, no.13 in the 1999 exh.cat.
- 480-3: Book of Hours, Use of Rouen
- Brölemann-Mallet sale, lot 56; bought by Permain for £450
- Now Chicago, Newberry Library, MS. 50-5
- 480-4: Book of Hours, in Dutch
- Brölemann-Mallet sale, lot 69; bought by Permain for £450
- Now Cleveland, Museum of Art, Acc.1998.124
- 480-5: Book of Hours, in Dutch
- Brölemann-Mallet sale, lot 70; bought by Permain for £210
- Sold at Christie's, New York, Vershbow sale, 6 April 2013, lot 3
- 480-6: Livy, Third decade, in French
- Brölemann-Mallet sale, lot 147; bought by Permain for £900
- Tenschert, Leuchtendes Mittelalter II, Katalog XXV (1990), no.60
- 480-7: Beauvais Missal
- Brölemann-Mallet sale, lot 161; bought by Permain for £970
- Now broken up
- 480-8: Pontifical
- Brölemann-Mallet sale, lot 179; bought by Permain for £180
- Now Claremont, CA, Scripps College, Denison Library, MS Perkins 3
- 480-9: Psalter, France, 13th cent., 194 leaves, 16 lines per page, 11 historiated initials with three-quarter borders, c.145×105mm.
- Brölemann-Mallet sale, lot 186; bought by Permain for £440
- Present location not known
Probably the only medieval manuscripts that remain at Hearst Castle are in this form:
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