1855, lot 2258/2 (f. 13v); lot purchased for £3 3s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Pietro Loredan to Piero Michiel Giorgio Colonna Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
1779, d. 1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/8 (f. 23v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
May 1855, lot 2258*/? (f. 31v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Alvise I Mocenigo to Bartolomeo Magno Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
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
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
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
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
Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.A member of the Contarini family of Venice, with the family's (overpainted) arms: bendy of 7, ~or~ and ~azure~, flanked by (overpainted) letters ‘A’ and ‘C’ (f.
Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 248; II, 11-2.A member of the Contarini family of Venice, with the family's (overpainted) arms: bendy of 7, ~or~ and ~azure~, flanked by (overpainted) letters ‘A’ and ‘C’ (f.
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,
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
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
diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2257/2 (f. 5v); lot purchased for £3 3s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Contarini Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
(inscribed erroneously 'Lot 2145', f. 5v); purchased for £3 1s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Pietro Lando to Pietro Pizzamano Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. (Venice)
1779, d. 1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258/5 (f. 21v); lot purchased for £3 3s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
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
his catalogue (see~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. xlviii, col. ii); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and
lot 2251/1 (f. 4v); lot purchased for £3 5s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Andrea Gritti to Stefano Trevisan Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)
written for him in 1565 by Petruccio Ubaldini (b. 1545, d. 1599), a Florentine calligrapher and writer who worked in Venice and England, from 1565 under Arundel's patronage (other manuscripts written by him are: his Italian version of 1550 of
June): 'Qui operatus est Petro in apostolatum'. Cutting from a Gradual (sanctorale) The Camaldolese monastery of San Michele a Murano, Venice: probably cut from a volume of a Sanctorale from a lost series of Graduals produced between 1392 and 1399