• Detail of miniature of Aeneas carrying Anchises and leading Ascanius., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-16v); Georgica (index Georgics)(ff. 17-58), with argumenta; Aeneis (index Aeneid)(ff. 58v-244v), with argumenta and verse preface, omitting 2:567-588 ('The King's Virgil')

of an apostolic protonotary, his device of a lamb (ff. 1, 17, 59). ? Probably Zaccaria Sagredo (b. 1653, d. Venice, 1729), Venetian collector of paintings, prints and drawings, purchased for 2,000 Venetian lire, and sold to Smith: 18th-century inscription

• A large miniature of Giovanni Maria Contarini with the apostle Mark, a title piece, and a full border with a pair of medallions of Gabriel and the Virgin Mary, and, in the lower margin, the Contarini arms., Commissione of the doge Francesco Donato to Giovanni Maria Contarini as ~podestà~ and captain of Koper (Capo d'Istria) near Trieste (index Commissione dogali)

Giovanni Maria Contarini as ~podestà~ and captain of Koper (Capo d'Istria) near Trieste (index Commissione dogali) Francesco Donato, doge of Venice: inscribed, 'Data in nostro ducali palatio die xv Maij indictionum viiij. M.D.L.I.' (with the signature and sign of a

• Front cover of binding., Commissione of the doge Francesco Donato to Giovanni Maria Contarini as ~podestà~ and captain of Koper (Capo d'Istria) near Trieste (index Commissione dogali)

Giovanni Maria Contarini as ~podestà~ and captain of Koper (Capo d'Istria) near Trieste (index Commissione dogali) Francesco Donato, doge of Venice: inscribed, 'Data in nostro ducali palatio die xv Maij indictionum viiij. M.D.L.I.' (with the signature and sign of a

• Front cover of 16th century binding., Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as ~podestà~ and captain of Feltre (index Commissione dogali)

the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as ~podestà~ and captain of Feltre (index Commissione dogali) Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice, inscribed, 'Data in nostro ducali palatio die xij Februarij indictionum (?)... M.D.XV' (with a notarial signature) (f. 21).Francisco Barbarigo,

• Illuminated white vine initial 'M'(arcus) at the start of Book 13 of of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae., Noctes Atticae

Noctes Atticae Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7943', f. 1, upper left corner, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7943; his sale,

• Illuminated initial 'P'(lutarchus) with foliate interlace at the beginning of Book 1 of Aulus Gellius's Noctes Atticae., Noctes Atticae

Noctes Atticae Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7943', f. 1, upper left corner, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7943; his sale,

• Illuminated initial 'V'(enio) entwined with blue knotted strapwork, with the opening words of the text in square capitals, written in a three-colour sequence, at the beginning of Cicero's In verrem, book 4., Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

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

• The left-hand page has a drawing in the form of a hand holding a placard bearing the catchword; the right-hand page has a foliate initial 'P'(rima) at the beginning of Horace's Epistles., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Marginal drawing of a seated old man holding a round red object in his left hand, adjacent to Horace's account of the Seven Ages of Man., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Zoomorphic initial 'H'(esterno) [Hesternam] with interlace and a bird's head, at the beginning of Augustine's Tractatus 25 on the Gospel of John., Tractatus in Evangelium Ioannis, imperfect, lacking tracts 18 and 19 and substituting Sermo 125 (ff. 66-70)

Notes with dates 1318 and 1335 (ff. 1, 1v).Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (listed in his inventory: see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7896: his sale, 2 March 1789, lot

• Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uales) with interlace and an animal's head, and a snake? forming the tail of the letter, at the beginning of Augustine's Tractatus 103 on the Gospel of John., Sermon 7 in natale sanctae Mariae, imperfect

Notes with dates 1318 and 1335 (ff. 1, 1v).Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (listed in his inventory: see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7896: his sale, 2 March 1789, lot

• Decorated initial 'H'(umano)at the beginning of Horace's Ars poetica., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Marginal marks similar to notaries' marks on a former flyleaf., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Detail of decorated initial., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• null, Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Detail of marginal drawing., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Foliate headpiece and 'T'(o) with penwork decoration at the beginning of Manuel Moschopoulos's Eklogai kata stoicheion onomaton Attikon., Eklogai kata stoicheion onomaton Attikon (ff. 2-69v), Peri onomaton (ff. 70-75v), and grammatical texts and observations

with the watermark 'W Turner & Son').Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Decorated headpiece and initial Georgios Tribizias Georgios Tribizias Manuel Moschopoulos, Anonymous Italy Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• null, Epistolae ad familiares

blue or red. Epistolae ad familiares Probably written before 1455: an oration made to the Doge of Venice by Galeazzo Maria Sforza in that year is added in a later hand on f. 2v.Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537): with

• null, Eklogai kata stoicheion onomaton Attikon (ff. 2-69v), Peri onomaton (ff. 70-75v), and grammatical texts and observations

of Burney paper with the watermark 'W Turner & Son').Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Georgios Tribizias Georgios Tribizias Manuel Moschopoulos, Anonymous Italy Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of Ranerio Foscarini, kneeling in prayer, being presented by a female personification of Justice to the Resurrected Christ, within a gold scroll-work border with the Foscarini family arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Alvise I Mocenigo to Raniero Foscarini as podestà and capitano of Rovigo

1779, d. 1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/8 (f. 23v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)