• Miniature illustring book I of Virgil's Aeneid, of Dido welcoming Aeneas in Carthage, with the good omen of the flying swans, and a ruined Troy in the background, and the first line of the title, in square capitals attributed to Bartolomeo Sanvito., 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 illustrating book III of Virgil's Georgics, with shepherds in a landscape with sheep, goats, cattle, sheep-shearing, and milking., 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

• Initial 'V' with filigree penwork decoration., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

Oxford', ~Burlington Magazine~, 120 (1978), 585-93).John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the British Museum for £16. Initial Master of the Donato Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Historiated initial 'V' of Michael weighing a soul., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

Oxford', ~Burlington Magazine~, 120 (1978), 585-93).John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the British Museum for £16. Michael Master of the Donato Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Historiatd initial 'A' of the Presentation in the Temple., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

120 (1978), 585-93).John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the British Museum for £16. Presentation in the Temple Master of the Donato Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Historiated initial 'S' of Saint Peter dressed as a pope and holding a book., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

Oxford', ~Burlington Magazine~, 120 (1978), 585-93).John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the British Museum for £16. Peter Master of the Donato Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Historiated initial 'L' of Lucy holding eyes on a dish and a palm leaf., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

Oxford', ~Burlington Magazine~, 120 (1978), 585-93).John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the British Museum for £16. Lucy Master of the Donato Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Historiated initial 'F' of John the Baptist., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

Oxford', ~Burlington Magazine~, 120 (1978), 585-93).John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the British Museum for £16. John Master of the Donato Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Historiated initial 'B' of Longinus holding a spear., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

Oxford', ~Burlington Magazine~, 120 (1978), 585-93).John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the British Museum for £16. Longinus Master of the Donato Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Historiated initial 'D' with Simon and Andrew fishing on Lake Galilee., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

Magazine~, 120 (1978), 585-93).John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the British Museum for £16. Simon and Andrew Master of the Donato Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Initial 'A' with filigree decoration., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

Oxford', ~Burlington Magazine~, 120 (1978), 585-93).John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the British Museum for £16. Initial Master of the Donato Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Opening page of Cicero's Philippic orations, with a decorated intial 'A'(ntequam), and an added illuminated foliate border and heraldry., Philippics

an added full foliate border, in colours and gold, perhaps 18th century, and added arms of the Gonzaga family of Venice (f. 2). Large initials in plain red or blue at the beginning of the other orations. Philippics Ambrosius Contareni,

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in colours and gold, perhaps 18th century, and added arms of the Gonzaga family of Venice (f. 2). Large initials in plain red or blue at the beginning of the other orations. Philippics Ambrosius Contareni, 16th century: ownership inscription with

• null, Philippics

in colours and gold, perhaps 18th century, and added arms of the Gonzaga family of Venice (f. 2). Large initials in plain red or blue at the beginning of the other orations. Philippics Ambrosius Contareni, 16th century: ownership inscription with

• null, Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues), Georgica (index Georgics), Aeneis (index Aeneid)(imperfect), with Argumenta, prologue, and verses

Machiavelli family quartered with other arms (f. 59). Notes by Paulus Manutius (b. 1512, d. 1574), printer and scholar of Venice (contemporary note, f. 2v, inscription: ‘Pauli Amicorum L(iber)’ (f. 2); the library of the Manutius family dispersed after the

• null, Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues), Georgica (index Georgics), Aeneis (index Aeneid)(imperfect), with Argumenta, prologue, and verses

Machiavelli family quartered with other arms (f. 59). Notes by Paulus Manutius (b. 1512, d. 1574), printer and scholar of Venice (contemporary note, f. 2v, inscription: ‘Pauli Amicorum L(iber)’ (f. 2); the library of the Manutius family dispersed after the

• Historiated initial 'D' or 'O' of Christ Disputing with the Merchants. The robe of the figure to the right is inscribed 'A. P. S. VITV. SI?S'., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index antiphonary, antiphonal)

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

• Full-page miniature in colours and gold, of Peace and Justice kissing within a painted ornamental frame with the winged lion of Mark and the arms of the Priuli family of Venice., Leaf from a Ducal Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Priuli

frame with the winged lion of Mark and the arms of the Priuli family of Venice. Italian cutting.The present cutting is bound in an album with Add. 18196, ff. 2-89. To see this cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order

• Illuminated initial and partial border with foliate decoration, with two winged putti supporting a laurel medallion with arms probably of the Bragadin family of Venice., Institutiones

supporting a laurel medallion with arms probably of the Bragadin family of Venice. Scribal marginal variants and occasional additions.Marginal notes by a later reader. Partial border and initial with foliate decoration in colours and gold, with two winged putti supporting

• Historiated initial 'M'(ecaenas) depicting a figure at a lectern, and a full white vine-stem border incorporating vignettes of readers, and heradry in the lower border; at the beginning of Horace's Carmina., Carmina (ff. 1-73v); Epodes (ff. 74-88v); Carmen saeculare (ff. 89-90v); Ars poetica (ff. 90v-101v); Epistulae (ff. 102-135); Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 135-181v)

(ff. 102-135); Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 135-181v) ? Perhaps owned by a member of the Badoeri or Emo families of Venice: with their arms, ~gules~, a lion rampant ~or~, 3 bends ~argent~ over all (f. 1); cf. King's 28; cf.