• Miniature of Mark with his lion crowning a female personification of Venice within a border of scroll-work and garlands of fruit and flowers., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Alvise I Mocenigo to Marco Corner (index Cornaro)

May 1855, lot 2258*/3 (f. 15v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Alvise I Mocenigo to Marco Corner Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of Tommaso Giustinian kneeling before Anthony Abbot beneath the inscription "Cha /ri / tas', within a gold scroll-work border with the winged lion of Mark and the arms of the Giustinian family of Venice., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Marino Grimani to Tommaso Giustinian as capitano of Jadrae (Zara)

sale 31 May 1855, lot 2248 (f. 30v); purchased for £1 9s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Marino Grimani to Tommaso Giustinian Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature in colours and gold, of a foliate border with medallions containing the winged lion of Mark, Francis of Assisi and Jerome, Nicholas of Bari and Stephen, and the Trivisan arms in a cartouche suspended by a ribbon before a hilly landscape, surrounding a bust portrait in profile of doge Andrea Gritti, the inscription in square capitals 'Nos Andreas / Griti / Dei Gratia Dux / Venetiarum et c[a]' and the beginning of the text of the commission: 'Committimus tibi / nobili viro Stephano Trevisano dilecto / civi et fideli nostro, q[ui] in Dei nomine / vadas in nostrum Potestatem et Rectore / Capitis Aggeris; quam civitatem, et / communitatem cum pertintiis eius / Reges a dic, quo intraveris in ipso / Regimine usq[e] ad menses xvi, et'., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Andrea Gritti to Stefano Trevisan (index Trivisan) as podestà and rettore of Caput Aggeris (Cavarzere, Veneto)

lot 2251/1 (f. 4v); lot purchased for £3 5s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Andrea Gritti to Stefano Trevisan Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Historiated initial 'Q' of Peter, with the descender of the letter composed of a foliate extension of acanthus leaves (centre)., Cutting from a Gradual (sanctorale)

June): 'Qui operatus est Petro in apostolatum'. Cutting from a Gradual (sanctorale) The Camaldolese monastery of San Michele a Murano, Venice: probably cut from a volume of a Sanctorale from a lost series of Graduals produced between 1392 and 1399

• Illuminated initial 'S'(equitur) with foliate decoration and partial border at the beginning of Book 9 of Livy's Ab urbe condita, first decade., Ab urbe condita, first decade, imperfect (ff. 5-108v); preceded (ff. 1-4v) by a table of chapters

and Greek in several Gothic and humanistic hands.Part 2: Written in 1464 for a member of the Ciera family of Venice, with a scribal colophon: ‘Finis. Die 24 mensis decembris 1464’ (f. 417), and arms: party per fess, ~argent~ and

• Illuminated initial 'P'(ace), and three-sided border, in Livy's Ab urbe condita., Ab urbe condita, first decade, imperfect (ff. 5-108v); preceded (ff. 1-4v) by a table of chapters

and Greek in several Gothic and humanistic hands.Part 2: Written in 1464 for a member of the Ciera family of Venice, with a scribal colophon: ‘Finis. Die 24 mensis decembris 1464’ (f. 417), and arms: party per fess, ~argent~ and

• Detail of illuminated initial and border., Ab urbe condita, first decade, imperfect (ff. 5-108v); preceded (ff. 1-4v) by a table of chapters

and Greek in several Gothic and humanistic hands.Part 2: Written in 1464 for a member of the Ciera family of Venice, with a scribal colophon: ‘Finis. Die 24 mensis decembris 1464’ (f. 417), and arms: party per fess, ~argent~ and

• Detail of illuminated initial., Ab urbe condita, first decade, imperfect (ff. 5-108v); preceded (ff. 1-4v) by a table of chapters

and Greek in several Gothic and humanistic hands.Part 2: Written in 1464 for a member of the Ciera family of Venice, with a scribal colophon: ‘Finis. Die 24 mensis decembris 1464’ (f. 417), and arms: party per fess, ~argent~ and

• Detail of lower border., Ab urbe condita, first decade, imperfect (ff. 5-108v); preceded (ff. 1-4v) by a table of chapters

and Greek in several Gothic and humanistic hands.Part 2: Written in 1464 for a member of the Ciera family of Venice, with a scribal colophon: ‘Finis. Die 24 mensis decembris 1464’ (f. 417), and arms: party per fess, ~argent~ and

• Miniature of an African man looking at a vision of female personifications of Venice as Justice and Truth, within an ornamental border with cartouches inscribed 'Veritas / De terra / Orta Est / Et Iustitia / De Coelo / Pr[o]spexi/ t' (Psalm 85:11) and the arms of the Morosini dalla Sbarra family of Venice (or a bend azure)., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Pasquale Cicogna to Tommaso Morosini dalla Sbarra as of podestà and capitano of Crema

1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/7 (f. 22v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Huntington Master Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Initial-word panel ~le-menatzeah~ (for the conductor) decorated with elaborate pen-flourishing spreading to the margins, at the beginning of Psalm 19., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Initial-word panel decorated with elaborate pen-flourishing spreading to the margins., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Initial-word panels decorated with elaborate pen-flourishing spreading to the margins., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Initial-word panel decorated with pen-flourishing. Framed marginal illustration of a man lighting the Hanukkah lamp with a congregation behind him., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Partial foliate border inhabited by a duck or a goose (?)., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Framed marginal painting of a family at the Seder table with the Seder basket, at the beginning of the Haggadah., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Framed marginal illustration of two scenes, probably depicting Abraham breaking the idols, and Abraham in front of King Nimrod, illustrating the passage, 'We were slaves'. The scene in the lower margin depicts the five rabbis in Benei Braq, at the beginning of the account of the five rabbis at Benei Braq., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Illumination of a man holding a Torah scroll in front of the open Torah Ark, and behind him a congregation in prayer, at a liturgical poem for Passover (for the poem, see Davidson, vol. 1, no. 3139)., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Framed marginal illlustration of an angel giving the Tablets of the Law to Moses kneeling on Mount Sinai, at the beginning of the mishnaic tractate ~Pirqei Avot~. The Israelites are waiting at the foot of the mountain., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Marginal painting of a man blowing the shofar in the margin, at an instruction to blow the shofar., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,