(inscribed erroneously 'Lot 2145', f. 5v); purchased for £3 1s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Pietro Lando to Pietro Pizzamano Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. (Venice)
1779, d. 1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258/5 (f. 21v); lot purchased for £3 3s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
four-line red stave is visible through the illumination. Cutting from an Antiphoner (index antiphonary, antiphonal) 'SS. Pietro e Paolo in Venice' inscribed in a 19th-century hand on the verso of related cutting Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 24.431 (see
written for him in 1565 by Petruccio Ubaldini (b. 1545, d. 1599), a Florentine calligrapher and writer who worked in Venice and England, from 1565 under Arundel's patronage (other manuscripts written by him are: his Italian version of 1550 of
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
that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Giovanni Aretino (colophons on ff. 121v, 127v) Giovanni Aretino Various authors including Augustine Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Terence (index Publius Terentius Afer) Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Terence (index Publius Terentius Afer) Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Terence (index Publius Terentius Afer) Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Giovanni Aretino (colophons on ff. 121v, 127v) Giovanni Aretino Various authors including Augustine Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
'Loci s. Francisci a Vinea Venetis ex testamento Io. Francisci Vaca' (f. 1).The Library of San Francesco della Vigna at Venice: given by Giovanni Francesco Vaca (see above).A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini (see Wright 1972).John Gibson
their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Juvenal (index Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Venice Italy, ?N. E. (?Venice)
catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 58, col. 1); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and
catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 58, col. 1); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and
catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 58, col. 1); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and
catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 58, col. 1); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and
of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Nonius Marcellus Venice Italy, N. (Milan, Venice or Padua?)
Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 247-8; II, 11-12).A member of the Contarini family of Venice: with their arms, bendy of seven, ~or~ and ~azure~, the ~azure~ bends overpainted (f. 1), cf. King's 19.Joseph Smith
Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 247-8; II, 11-12).A member of the Contarini family of Venice: with their arms, bendy of seven, ~or~ and ~azure~, the ~azure~ bends overpainted (f. 1), cf. King's 19.Joseph Smith
Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 247-8; II, 11-12).A member of the Contarini family of Venice: with their arms, bendy of seven, ~or~ and ~azure~, the ~azure~ bends overpainted (f. 1), cf. King's 19.Joseph Smith