• Illuminated initial 'N'(on) at the beginning of Plautus's Casina., Eight comedies (index Comoediae), with prologues and arguments: Amphitruo (ff. 2v-20v), Asinaria (ff. 21-36), Aulularia (ff. 36v-50), Captivi (ff. 51-66v), Circulio (ff. 67-79), Casina (ff. 80v-92-), Cistellaria (ff. 92-99), Epidicus (ff. 99-108v)

the second part of Bodleian, MS. Canon. Misc. 554 (partly written at Padua in 1435), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library. Cristoforo Cortese Maccius Plautus Padua Italy, N. E. (Padua or Venice)

• null, Eight comedies (index Comoediae), with prologues and arguments: Amphitruo (ff. 2v-20v), Asinaria (ff. 21-36), Aulularia (ff. 36v-50), Captivi (ff. 51-66v), Circulio (ff. 67-79), Casina (ff. 80v-92-), Cistellaria (ff. 92-99), Epidicus (ff. 99-108v)

the second part of Bodleian, MS. Canon. Misc. 554 (partly written at Padua in 1435), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library. Cristoforo Cortese Maccius Plautus Padua Italy, N. E. (Padua or Venice)

• null, Eight comedies (index Comoediae), with prologues and arguments: Amphitruo (ff. 2v-20v), Asinaria (ff. 21-36), Aulularia (ff. 36v-50), Captivi (ff. 51-66v), Circulio (ff. 67-79), Casina (ff. 80v-92-), Cistellaria (ff. 92-99), Epidicus (ff. 99-108v)

the second part of Bodleian, MS. Canon. Misc. 554 (partly written at Padua in 1435), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library. Cristoforo Cortese Maccius Plautus Padua Italy, N. E. (Padua or Venice)

• null, Eight comedies (index Comoediae), with prologues and arguments: Amphitruo (ff. 2v-20v), Asinaria (ff. 21-36), Aulularia (ff. 36v-50), Captivi (ff. 51-66v), Circulio (ff. 67-79), Casina (ff. 80v-92-), Cistellaria (ff. 92-99), Epidicus (ff. 99-108v)

the second part of Bodleian, MS. Canon. Misc. 554 (partly written at Padua in 1435), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library. Cristoforo Cortese Maccius Plautus Padua Italy, N. E. (Padua or Venice)

• null, Eight comedies (index Comoediae), with prologues and arguments: Amphitruo (ff. 2v-20v), Asinaria (ff. 21-36), Aulularia (ff. 36v-50), Captivi (ff. 51-66v), Circulio (ff. 67-79), Casina (ff. 80v-92-), Cistellaria (ff. 92-99), Epidicus (ff. 99-108v)

the second part of Bodleian, MS. Canon. Misc. 554 (partly written at Padua in 1435), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library. Cristoforo Cortese Maccius Plautus Padua Italy, N. E. (Padua or Venice)

• null, Eight comedies (index Comoediae), with prologues and arguments: Amphitruo (ff. 2v-20v), Asinaria (ff. 21-36), Aulularia (ff. 36v-50), Captivi (ff. 51-66v), Circulio (ff. 67-79), Casina (ff. 80v-92-), Cistellaria (ff. 92-99), Epidicus (ff. 99-108v)

the second part of Bodleian, MS. Canon. Misc. 554 (partly written at Padua in 1435), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library. Cristoforo Cortese Maccius Plautus Padua Italy, N. E. (Padua or Venice)

• null, Eight comedies (index Comoediae), with prologues and arguments: Amphitruo (ff. 2v-20v), Asinaria (ff. 21-36), Aulularia (ff. 36v-50), Captivi (ff. 51-66v), Circulio (ff. 67-79), Casina (ff. 80v-92-), Cistellaria (ff. 92-99), Epidicus (ff. 99-108v)

the second part of Bodleian, MS. Canon. Misc. 554 (partly written at Padua in 1435), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library. Cristoforo Cortese Maccius Plautus Padua Italy, N. E. (Padua or Venice)

• Miniature of an African man looking at a vision of female personifications of Venice as Justice and Truth, within an ornamental border with cartouches inscribed 'Veritas / De terra / Orta Est / Et Iustitia / De Coelo / Pr[o]spexi/ t' (Psalm 85:11) and the arms of the Morosini dalla Sbarra family of Venice (or a bend azure)., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Pasquale Cicogna to Tommaso Morosini dalla Sbarra as of podestà and capitano of Crema

1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/7 (f. 22v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Huntington Master Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• White vine initial 'N'(on) and border. Added 17th-century ownership inscription by Antoninus Martius Medice in the lower margin., Various works including De nobilitate vera (ff. 2-29), a letter of Carlo Aretino to Poggio (ff. 33-35), etc.

1694: inscribed 'A Matteo Egyptio Neapolitano [...] millesimo sexcentesimo nonagesimo quarto [...]'. Inscribed with a reference to book published in Venice in 1569 (f. 35v).Added title-page drawn in ink with the arms of cardinal D. Gerardus to whom the book

• 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)

• null, Homilies on the Gospels for each Sunday of the ecclesiastical year

circle, respectively).Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Nikolaos Malaxos Nikolaos Malaxos Collected by Philotheos Kokkinos, Patriarch of Constantinople Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice) or Eastern Mediterranean (Crete)

• null, Noctes Atticae

Noctes Atticae Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7943', f. 1, upper left corner, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7943; his sale,

• null, Noctes Atticae

Noctes Atticae Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7943', f. 1, upper left corner, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7943; his sale,

• White vine initial 'E'(t si) with decoration extending into the margins at the beginning of the text., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

£10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Pseudo-Cicero Venice Italy, N. E. (?Venice)

• Detail of a white vine initial 'E'(t si) with decoration extending into the margins at the beginning of the text., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Detail Pseudo-Cicero Venice Italy, N. E. (?Venice)

• Detail of a white vine initial 'S'(uperio) and circular diagram of rainfall., Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis

by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 7464 (Udine and Venice, 1461; Rome, 1464), and 7465 (Florence, 1464; Venice, 1460-67, 1470-71, 1472; Venice and Ferrara, 1471-76). White vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 1, 5,

• 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