• 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

• Miniature of Nemrod and the construction of the tower of Babel, at the beginning of book 4., Chronique de la Bouquechardière

Argos, and the foundation of Athens (f. 2v); Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy (f. 90); the construction of Venice, Sycambria, Carthage, and Rome (f. 150): Nimrod and the construction of the tower of Babel (f. 206v); Alexander and

• Miniature of Noah coming out of the Ark, and the construction of Argos and of Athens, at the beginning of book 1., Chronique de la Bouquechardière

Argos, and the foundation of Athens (f. 2v); Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy (f. 90); the construction of Venice, Sycambria, Carthage, and Rome (f. 150): Nimrod and the construction of the tower of Babel (f. 206v); Alexander and

• Text page in book 4., Chronique de la Bouquechardière

Argos, and the foundation of Athens (f. 2v); Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy (f. 90); the construction of Venice, Sycambria, Carthage, and Rome (f. 150): Nimrod and the construction of the tower of Babel (f. 206v); Alexander and

• Miniature of Alexander and the Wheel of Fortune, and the murder of Alexander II of Macedonia before the throne of Eurydice, at the beginning of book 5., Chronique de la Bouquechardière

Argos, and the foundation of Athens (f. 2v); Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy (f. 90); the construction of Venice, Sycambria, Carthage, and Rome (f. 150): Nimrod and the construction of the tower of Babel (f. 206v); Alexander and

• Decorated initial 'D'(eus) at the beginning of the book., Epistolae, imperfect at the end

1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 8936 (made in Venice 1443-9). Large initial in colours and gold (f. 1). Rubrics in red. Large plain initials in blue or red.

• 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,

• Miniature of Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy, at the beginning of book 2; initial and borders., Chronique de la Bouquechardière

Argos, and the foundation of Athens (f. 2v); Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy (f. 90); the construction of Venice, Sycambria, Carthage, and Rome (f. 150): Nimrod and the construction of the tower of Babel (f. 206v); Alexander and

• Detail of a miniature of Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy, at the beginning of book 2., Chronique de la Bouquechardière

Argos, and the foundation of Athens (f. 2v); Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy (f. 90); the construction of Venice, Sycambria, Carthage, and Rome (f. 150): Nimrod and the construction of the tower of Babel (f. 206v); Alexander and

• Detail of a miniature of Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy, at the beginning of book 2., Chronique de la Bouquechardière

Argos, and the foundation of Athens (f. 2v); Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy (f. 90); the construction of Venice, Sycambria, Carthage, and Rome (f. 150): Nimrod and the construction of the tower of Babel (f. 206v); Alexander and

• Detail of a miniature of Alexander and the Wheel of Fortune, and the murder of Alexander II of Macedonia before the throne of Eurydice, at the beginning of book 5., Chronique de la Bouquechardière

Argos, and the foundation of Athens (f. 2v); Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy (f. 90); the construction of Venice, Sycambria, Carthage, and Rome (f. 150): Nimrod and the construction of the tower of Babel (f. 206v); Alexander and

• Miniature of the taking of Jerusalem, at the beginning of book 6., Chronique de la Bouquechardière

Argos, and the foundation of Athens (f. 2v); Paris and Helena meeting Priam outside Troy (f. 90); the construction of Venice, Sycambria, Carthage, and Rome (f. 150): Nimrod and the construction of the tower of Babel (f. 206v); Alexander and

• 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

• Illuminated initial 'E'(go), at the beginning of Book 1 of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares., Epistolae ad familiares

initials alternately plain 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,

• Foliate headpiece with four roundels enclosing birds and busts, and foliate border three roundels enclosing a bust and two armorial shields, (the border is possibly a later addition), at the beginning of Diogenes Laertius's De vitis philosophorum., De vitis philosophorum

Foliate headpiece with four roundels enclosing birds and busts, and foliate border three roundels enclosing a bust and two armorial shields, (the border is possibly a later addition), at the beginning of Diogenes Laertius's De vitis philosophorum. ff. 137-144