• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ilexi) of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead., Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')

(f. 15); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240).Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141. Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(omine) with King David playing his harp, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')

(f. 15); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240).Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141. Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.

• Detail of a scribal colophon, reading: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV'., Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')

(f. 15); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240).Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141. Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.

• Gold-stamped and blind-tooled late fifteenth-century Venetian binding., De re militari, with prefatory letter

date 'May 27th 1783', f. 1).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Venetian binding Antonius Vegnatus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• null, De re militari, with prefatory letter

the date 'May 27th 1783', f. 1).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Antonius Vegnatus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• null, De re militari, with prefatory letter

the date 'May 27th 1783', f. 1).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Antonius Vegnatus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Decorated initial 'C'(um), at the beginning of the prologue of the statutes of Venice., 'Promissio Serenissimi Principis Domini Laurentii Prioli, Inclyti Ducis Venetiarum', the statutes of Venice, with the undertaking of the Doge, Lorenzo Priuli, to observe the same

Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Decorated initial Joannes de Vitalibus Joannes de Vitalibus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Headpiece with geometric and foliate decoration and decorated initial., Grammatica Isagoge Graece, Books 1-4, with Latin annotations

Rusotas's presence in the Veneto region from 1465 onwards (Venice and Vicenza) and the watermarks's origins suggest that the manuscript was produced in Northeastern Italy in the last quarter of the 15th century.Watermarks of scales, similar to Gerhard Piccard, ~Wasserzeichen

• Display script by Petruccio Ubaldini, Prologue., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

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

• Prefatory miniature of David praying with an angel holding a sword, scourge, and skull, in an oval frame., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

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

• Display script by Petruccio Ubaldini, Psalm 1., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

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

• Detail of the prefatory miniature of David praying with an angel holding a sword, scourge, and skull, in an oval frame., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

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

• Prefatory miniature of the arms of Henry Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, with his motto, 'Virtutis laus actio', and his monogram., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

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

• Detail of display script by Petruccio Ubaldini, Psalm 1., Psalter and Canticles (the 'Psalter of the Earl of Arundel')

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

• Historiated initial 'S'(alve) of a priest and attendant before an altar, combined with a full border with penwork decoration in brown ink, flowers and a scroll at the beginning of a Mass dedicated to the Virgin., 'Missa de beata maria virgine' (Mass of the Virgin)

the nation for £10,000 (a fraction 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. Mass Venice Italy, N. E. (?Venice)

• Detail of miniature of shepherds., 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

• Detail of faceted initial., 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

• Detail of lower border., 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

• Detail of miniature., 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

• null, 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