• Headpiece and coloured initial., Commentary on Claudius Ptolemaeus's Harmonica

possibly in Venice; originally bound together in the same volume (spine marked [vol] '2'). Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (inscription '7950', f. i, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis

• Illuminated initial 'S'(i) entwined with strapwork, square capitals in a four-colour sequence, and a trompe l'oeil page with its corners curling at the edges, surrounded by a full border with all'antica elements, a frieze, and griffins supporting a shield in a wreath; at the beginning of Cicero's In verrem., Orationes in C. Verrem (index Orationes in Verrem; Oratio in Caecilium)

Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers and Copyists~, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, 247-8; II, 11-12).A member of the Contarini family of Venice: with their arms, bendy of seven, ~or~ and ~azure~, the ~azure~ bends overpainted (f. 1), cf. King's 19.Joseph Smith