• null, Epistolae ad familiares

blue or red. Epistolae ad familiares Probably written before 1455: an oration made to the Doge of Venice by Galeazzo Maria Sforza in that year is added in a later hand on f. 2v.Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537): with

• Decorated initial 'V'(oi) with acanthus and white vine border at the beginning of Il canzionere. The coat of arms of the Priuli family (Venice) has been painted in the lower border in the early 16th century, seemingly over an effaced earlier shield., Il canzoniere (also known as Rime sparse; ff. 1-129v); I triunfi (ff. 130-167)

beginning of Il canzionere. The coat of arms of the Priuli family (Venice) has been painted in the lower border in the early 16th century, seemingly over an effaced earlier shield. Catchwords written vertically. Guide letters.According to unpublished notes of

• Illuminated white vine-stem border and illuminated initial 'A'(ntequam), with square capitals used as display script in an unfinished four-colour sequence; at the beginning of Cicero's Philippic orations., 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

perhaps including a circle in the lower half of the shield (f. 1).? A member of the Mocenigo family of Venice: with the arms, per fess ~azure~ and ~argent~, each half with a cinquefoil counter-charged (f. 1) (see Eugenio Morando

• Illuminated white vine-stem initial 'V'(ellem), and square capitals in a three-colour sequence; at the beginning of Cicero's ninth Philippic oration., 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

perhaps including a circle in the lower half of the shield (f. 1).? A member of the Mocenigo family of Venice: with the arms, per fess ~azure~ and ~argent~, each half with a cinquefoil counter-charged (f. 1) (see Eugenio Morando

• null, 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

perhaps including a circle in the lower half of the shield (f. 1).? A member of the Mocenigo family of Venice: with the arms, per fess ~azure~ and ~argent~, each half with a cinquefoil counter-charged (f. 1) (see Eugenio Morando

• null, 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

perhaps including a circle in the lower half of the shield (f. 1).? A member of the Mocenigo family of Venice: with the arms, per fess ~azure~ and ~argent~, each half with a cinquefoil counter-charged (f. 1) (see Eugenio Morando

• null, 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

perhaps including a circle in the lower half of the shield (f. 1).? A member of the Mocenigo family of Venice: with the arms, per fess ~azure~ and ~argent~, each half with a cinquefoil counter-charged (f. 1) (see Eugenio Morando

• Decorated initial 'S'(egondo) at the beginning of the text., History of Venice to 1439

initials in alternating red or grey (f. 1). Spaces for initials left blank or with a faint outline. History of Venice to 1439 Gaspard Coignet de la Thuilerie, count of Courson (d. 1653): his armorial binding.The Loménie de Brienne family

• Initial and headpiece with foliate and geometric decoration., Miscellany of Byzantine liturgical music, including 'Kekragaria' (ff. 9-115v), Glykys's settings for 11 Morning Hymns (index Eothina anastasima) of the Emperor Leo the Wise (ff. 115v-130v), and Chrysaphes's 'Cheroubikon' and 'Koinonikon' (ff. 131v-133v), with late music notation

Edward Heawood, ~Watermarks: Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries~ (Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950), no. 866 (dated 1696 to Venice). Headpieces with geometric and floral decoration in black and red (ff. 3, 9, 34, 46, 60v, 77, 92, 104,

• Decorated initial 'O'(mnis homines) with leaves and flowers, and square capitals in three-colour alternation at the beginning of Sallust's Cataline Conspiracy., Catilina (ff. 1-45v), Jugurtha (ff. 45v-134)

of the arts: listed in his catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 420; sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and art collection,

• Decorated initial 'S'(emper) entwined in foliage on a blue ground at the beginning of Juvenal's Satires; with two heraldic shields in the lower margin., Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)(ff. 1-69v; ff. 70v-83)

catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 37, col. 1; sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and

• Unfinished initial 'N'(ec), at the beginning of Perseus' Satires., Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)(ff. 1-69v; ff. 70v-83)

catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 37, col. 1; sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and

• null, Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)(ff. 1-69v; ff. 70v-83)

catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 37, col. 1; sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and

• null, Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)(ff. 1-69v; ff. 70v-83)

catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 37, col. 1; sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and

• null, Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)(ff. 1-69v; ff. 70v-83)

catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 37, col. 1; sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and

• 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.

• 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)

• Full knotwork border with a decorated initial 'F'(acturus), and arms in the shape of a bisected axe head, with a black eagle poised on a sword on a gold ground in the upper half, two crossed swords on a blue ground in the lower half, and the initials 'V' and 'B' on either side., Ab urbe condita (index De gestis romanorum; Historia romana)

with an inscription on the verso.The decoration may be Paduan, and the scribes may be Michael de Salvaticis (active in Venice c. 1430-60) and Taddeo Querino of Brescia, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the