• Partial foliate border inhabited by birds around the content of the book., Sefer Maalot ha-Middot (The Book on Degrees of Virtue) by Jehiel ben Jekuthiel (ff. 1v-142v); portion of Shaar Etz Hayyim by Benjamin Anaw (f. 143)

to Edward Heawood, ~Watermarks~ (Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae Historiam Illustrantia, I) (Hilversum: Paper Publication Society, 1950), no. 874 but without inscription (Venice, 1783). Watermark, f. [146] of a letter V, unidentified.Recipe for making ink (f. 145). 2 partial foliate borders inhabited

• White vine initial 'T'(erentii), Vita Terentii (ff. 1-3v); Comoediae (index Comedies) (ff. 3v-169)

'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

• Historiated initial 'S'(oror) showing Seneca holding an open book at the beginning of Seneca's Tragedies, with a three-sided foliate border., Tragoediae (index Tragedies), with argumenta

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

• Illuminated initial 'D'(i) with a flower in the bowl of the letter and gold balls extending into the margin at the beginning of Seneca's Medea., Tragoediae (index Tragedies), with argumenta

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

• null, Tragoediae (index Tragedies), with argumenta

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

• null, Tragoediae (index Tragedies), with argumenta

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

• Headpiece and initial 'H'(Eta) with foliate decoration executed in reddish-brown, at the beginning of the homily for the third Sunday after Epiphany, or of the Publican and Pharisee., Homilies on the Gospels for each Sunday of the ecclesiastical year

the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Decorated headpiece and initial Nikolaos Malaxos Nikolaos Malaxos Collected by Philotheos Kokkinos, Patriarch of Constantinople Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice) or Eastern Mediterranean (Crete)

• Drawing of a siege engine as described by Biton in De constructione bellicarum machinarum., De machinis (ff. 1-9), De constructione bellicarum machinarum (ff. 9v-16)

purchased by Burney: note (f. 359v).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. Siege engine Athenaeus, Biton Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• null, 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

• null, 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

• null, 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

• null, 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

• Detail of arms., Orations and letters (ff. 1-147); Invectivum in Ciceronem (ff. 147v-149)

Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.A member of the Contarini family of Venice, with the family's (overpainted) arms: bendy of 7, ~or~ and ~azure~, flanked by (overpainted) letters ‘A’ and ‘C’ (f.

• Historiated initial 'P'(rosodia) with the author in prayer before the Virgin and Child, and full foliate borders and a bas-de-page scene with a lion and apes, at the beginning of Johannes de Janua's Summa que vocatur Catholicon., Summa que vocatur Catholicon

red and blue. Summa que vocatur Catholicon ? Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), Venice: his catalogue (see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787) (see below).Eugen Buckingham, 1810: inscribed 'Given to me by George

• Miniature of Antonio Foscarini being presented to the Virgin and Child by (left to right) Anthony Abbot (bearded, in a hooded robe holding a staff), Nicholas of Bari (in bishop's robes, holding and three golden balls) and Bernardino of Siena (holding Christ's monogram IHS), in a zoomorphic cartouche made up of two sphinxes. Below the winged lion of Mark (symbolising Venice), the inscription in gold square capitals 'Nos Leonardus Lau / redanus Dei Gratia / Dux / Venetiarum et cae', and the Foscarini arms, or a bend lozengy azure. The whole on a ground decorated with scrolling foliage and classical armour within a painted frame. On the recto, a small decorated initial ‘C’ in colours and gold, beginning the text ‘Comittimus tibi nobili viro An / tonio fuschareno dilecto civi / [et] fideli nostro qui in bona gratia vadas et sis / Capitaneus Ripperi[a]e Brixiensis et Provisor / Salodii…’., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Leonardo Loredan to Antonio Foscarini as capitano of the Riviera of Brescia and provisor of Salò

1855, lot 2249/1 (f. 3v); lot purchased for £3 18s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Leonardo Loredan to Antonio Foscarini Benedetto Bordon Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Historiated initial with an author portrait of a man holding a closed book at the beginning of Rasis's de aluminibus et salibus., Medical miscellany, including Gerald of Cremona' s translation of Rasis's Liber divisionum de aluminibus et salibus.

Historiated initial with an author portrait of a man holding a closed book at the beginning of Rasis's de aluminibus et salibus. Initials removed (e.g., original folio following f. 1; f. 9, 20). 1 historiated initial in colours with

• Miniature of Antonio Foscarini being presented to the Virgin and Child by (left to right) Anthony Abbot (bearded, in a hooded robe holding a staff), Nicholas of Bari (in bishop's robes, holding and three golden balls) and Bernardino of Siena (holding Christ's monogram IHS), in a zoomorphic cartouche made up of two sphinxes. Below the winged lion of Mark (symbolising Venice), the inscription in gold square capitals 'Nos Leonardus Lau / redanus Dei Gratia / Dux / Venetiarum et cae', and the Foscarini arms, or a bend lozengy azure. The whole on a ground decorated with scrolling foliage and classical armour within a painted frame. On the recto, a small decorated initial ‘C’ in colours and gold, beginning the text ‘Comittimus tibi nobili viro An / tonio fuschareno dilecto civi / [et] fideli nostro qui in bona gratia vadas et sis / Capitaneus Ripperi[a]e Brixiensis et Provisor / Salodii…’., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Leonardo Loredan to Antonio Foscarini as capitano of the Riviera of Brescia and provisor of Salò

1855, lot 2249/1 (f. 3v); lot purchased for £3 18s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Leonardo Loredan to Antonio Foscarini Benedetto Bordon Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Detail of an illuminated white vine-stem initial 'Q'(uamquam), and display script in alternating colours in the style of Felice Feliciano of Verona, at the beginning of Cicero's De Imperio Cn. Pompei., Orations and letters (ff. 1-147); Invectivum in Ciceronem (ff. 147v-149)

Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.A member of the Contarini family of Venice, with the family's (overpainted) arms: bendy of 7, ~or~ and ~azure~, flanked by (overpainted) letters ‘A’ and ‘C’ (f.

• Detail of an illuminated white vine-stem border and initial 'C'(redo) of strapwork, at the beginning of Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino., Orations and letters (ff. 1-147); Invectivum in Ciceronem (ff. 147v-149)

Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.A member of the Contarini family of Venice, with the family's (overpainted) arms: bendy of 7, ~or~ and ~azure~, flanked by (overpainted) letters ‘A’ and ‘C’ (f.

• Decorated intial 'I'(n) of interlaced white vines, at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses., Metamorphoses (ff. 4-138v); Tristia (six lines only) (f. 138v)

his catalogue (see~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. xlviii, col. ii); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and