• Detail of a partial foliate border with a bear., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Detail of a partial foliate border with a nest full of young birds and a parent bird approaching., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by two magpies., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a wolf with a lamb in his mouth., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a dog with a rooster in his mouth and two birds in the upper margin., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a parrot and a duck., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Detail of an initial-word panel accompanied by a dragon and a hybrid, at the evening prayer for Yom Kippur., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Detail of a partial foliate border inhabited by a duck or a goose (?)., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Detail of a marginal painting of a man pointing to his eye, at a liturgical poem for 10 of Tevet (a Jewish fast day) starting with 'Be your eyes open' (for the poem, see Davidson vol. 3, no. 118)., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Detail of a framed marginal painting of a family around the Seder table with the master of the house making the blessing over the second cup of wine., Prayer book (~Forli Siddur~) for the entire year, Italian rite

other manuscripts are linked to Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe: British Library, Or. 2736; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. Or. 81; Venice, Jewish Museum, MS 85. See Narkiss, 1984.Abraham ben Solomon: inscribed with his name in a purchase note, mostly illegible,

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman, probably named Alvise, kneeling in prayer, being presented to the Virgin and Child by a male saint and Louis of Toulouse dressed as a bishop with a robe covered in fleur-de-lys, within a gold scroll-work border with an unidentified coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Venetian nobleman, probably named Alvise

1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2255 (f. 25v); lot purchased for £1 2s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission to Alvise Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of female personifications of Justice and Peace embracing beneath an angel holding a scroll inscribed 'Iustitia et Pax Osculate Sunt', within a gold scroll-work and scrolling foliate ornate frame with a cameo of a nude woman., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale)

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/11 (f. 27v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission to a Venetian nobleman Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman kneeling in prayer before the Virgin and Child within an ornate border of gold scroll-work with an erased coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale)

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/12 (f. 28v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission to a Venetian nobleman Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman, probably called Giacomo or James, being presented with a commission by a doge, before James the Great, Sebastian and a vision of the Crucifixion, within a border of gold scroll-work with an erased coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Venetian nobleman, probably called Giacomo or Sebastiano

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/13 (f. 29v); lot purchased for £3 5s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission to a Venetian nobleman Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Illuminated initial 'C'(ai[us])., Epistolae (index Letters)

with an inscription on f. 1. Ruled in hardpoint. Quire signatures: A, B, etc. Written in Italy, possibly Venice c. 1420, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 8 large initials in

• Miniature of Hercules and Cerberus and historiated initial of a lady in profile at the beginning of Hercules furens., Tragoediae (index Tragedies), with marginal gloss

beginning of Hercules furens. Catchwords written horizontally.This manuscript is dated to the early 15th century, possibly Venice, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.Each tragedy is introduced by a prologue. Miniature (damaged),

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

Decorated initials, rubrics and marginalia in brown. 'Grammatica Isagoge Graece', Books 1-4 Written by Georgios Tribizias, a Greek priest in Venice (ff. 1-146; see Gamillscheg and Harlfinger 1978 and 1981).Partly written at Padua by Pietro Bravi of Verona (index Petrus

• Initial 'T' of the dedication of a church., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index Antiphonal, antiphonary)

and 'landing' case. Purchased as 'The Ascott Album' by the British Library from the Rothschild family on 26 March 1979. Dedication of a church Master of the Murano Gradual Master of San Michele a Murano Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of a bishop, his robe covered in ~fleurs-de-lis~, seated in a mandorla of clouds holding a crown and the Tron family arms above a view of the bacino di San Marco in Venice, and a zoomorphic cartouche inscribed 'Nos Francis / cus Donato Dei / Gratia Dux / Venetiarum et Cetera', within a full border of grotesques, unicorns, and masks in gold monochrome with medallions of Francis of Assisi and Andrew (left) and a personification of Justice and a robed man, who is probably Alvise Tron (right)., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Francesco Donato to Alvise Tron as provveditore of Insula Vegla (Krk)

lot 2258/1 (f. 7v); lot purchased for £3 3s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Francesco Donato to Alvise Tron Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of Francesco Romago kneeling before an archangel who holds a book and points up to a vision of God the Father and the Holy Spirit and in the background a landscape with a view of the fortress of Citadella, within a full border with four grotesque figures and a quatrefoil inscribed 'XXXIII / Domine / Mitte / Angelum / De Caelo Qui Me / Custodit / et / Foveat'., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Francesco Venier to Francesco Romago as podestà of Citadella

diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258/3 (f. 10v); lot purchased for £3 30s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Presentation Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)