• Miniature of several episodes from book IV of Virgil's Aeneid: on the right, the hunt during which Dido and Aeneas meet; on the left, Dido and Aeneas ride into a cave together, and in the middle of the image, Dido is on her funeral pyre, committing suicide after the departure of Aeneas.and decorated initial 'A'(t)., 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

• Miniature illustrating book V of Virgil's Aenied, with the Sicilian games, including archery, wrestling with poles, and racing, and in the background, the burning of the Trojan fleet and decorated initial 'I'(nterea)., 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

• Miniature of Venus arming Aeneas in the foreground, and on the right, Aeneas meeting Evander, at the beginning of book VII of Virgil's Aeneid, and decorated initial 'U'(t)., 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

• Miniature illustrating book IX of Virgil's Aeneid, with Turnus swimming the Tiber, to the left, and fighting in the Trojan camp, on the right, and decorated initial 'A'(tque)., 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

• Miniature illustrating book X of Virgil's Aeneid, of the council of the gods, and the death of Mezentius, and decorated initial 'P'(anditur)., 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 'O'(ceanum) decorated with a winged mask, swags and gemstones, at the beginning of book XI of Virgil's Aeneid, with a miniature of the funeral procession of the young warrior Pallas, and Aeneas placing the trophy of the armour of Mezentius on a tree, to the right, with a full border of all'antica decoration including swans, swags and strings of gems, and square capitals in a four-colour sequence., 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

• Miniature illustrating book XII of Virgil's Aeneid, with Aeneas killing Turnus with a sword on the right, and the gods above on a cloud, and decorated initial 'T'(urnus)., 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

• Decorated headpiece at the beginning of Hermogenes's Peri ton staeon., Peri ton stason, Peri eureseon, Peri ideon logou, with prologues, and various notes, proverbs, and verses

various notes, proverbs, and verses Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice: inscription '7909' (f. 1v), corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7909): his London sale, 2

• Zoomorphic initial 'C'(allimachi), partly formed of two fish or dolphins, at the beginning of Book 3 of Propertius's Elegies., Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71) Copied from the 1493 reprint of the 1487 Beroaldus edition (Venice, Simon Bevilaqua), according to Butrica.Jonathan Toup (b. 1713 d. 1785), philologer and classical editor: his sale, 10 May 1786,

• Decorated initial 'C'(ynthia), at the beginning of Propertius's Elegies., Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71) Copied from the 1493 reprint of the 1487 Beroaldus edition (Venice, Simon Bevilaqua), according to Butrica.Jonathan Toup (b. 1713 d. 1785), philologer and classical editor: his sale, 10 May 1786,

• null, Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71) Copied from the 1493 reprint of the 1487 Beroaldus edition (Venice, Simon Bevilaqua), according to Butrica.Jonathan Toup (b. 1713 d. 1785), philologer and classical editor: his sale, 10 May 1786,

• null, Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71) Copied from the 1493 reprint of the 1487 Beroaldus edition (Venice, Simon Bevilaqua), according to Butrica.Jonathan Toup (b. 1713 d. 1785), philologer and classical editor: his sale, 10 May 1786,

• 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.

• null, 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.

• null, 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.

• 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

• Historiated initial 'C' of the Vision of Ezechiel. On the reverse, two four-line red staves, musical notation and text '...ue sub ipso /…le bant'., Cuttings from an Antiphoner (index antiphonar, antiphonal)

4145; London, Wallace Collection, M330; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 19796; Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection, nos. 25-27; and Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, no. 2111 (164); Unknown location, formerly New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, ms.

• Historiated initial 'C' of Helen praying before the Cross. On the reverse, two four-line red staves, musical notation and text '...cut docuit /…lo'., Cuttings from an Antiphoner (index antiphonar, antiphonal)

4145; London, Wallace Collection, M330; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 19796; Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection, nos. 25-27; and Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, no. 2111 (164); Unknown location, formerly New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, ms.

• Historiated initial 'O' of a funeral with a saint burying a man. On the reverse, two four-line red staves, musical notation and text '…meoru[m] neq[ue] /…as de pecca'., Cuttings from an Antiphoner (index antiphonar, antiphonal)

4145; London, Wallace Collection, M330; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, inv. no. 19796; Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection, nos. 25-27; and Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, no. 2111 (164); Unknown location, formerly New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, ms.

• null, Homilies on the Gospels for each Sunday of the ecclesiastical year

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