• 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,

• Historiated initial 'D' or 'O' of Christ Disputing with the Merchants. The robe of the figure to the right is inscribed 'A. P. S. VITV. SI?S'., Cutting from an Antiphoner (index antiphonary, antiphonal)

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

• 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

• Historiated initial 'D'(omine) of the Nativity, with a full border with gems, inset miniatures of deer, Ezechiel, Jeremiah, Solomon, and other figures, at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin; putti holding the arms of Agostino Biliotti, Gonfalonier of Justice in Florence in the lower margin., Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')

(f. 15); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240).Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141. Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.

• Historiated initial 'D'(ilexi) of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead, and partial border, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead., Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')

(f. 15); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240).Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141. Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.

• Historiated initial 'D'(omine) with King David playing his harp, and partial border, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')

(f. 15); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240).Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141. Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.

• Scribal colophon reading: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV'., Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')

(f. 15); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240).Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141. Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.

• Abstract decorated headpiece., Plutus (ff. 1-76v); Nubes (ff. 77-171)

the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 3378 (Venice, 1478 and 1479). Decorated headpieces. Large decorated initials. Plutus (ff. 1-76v); Nubes (ff. 77-171) The Minutoli-Tegrimi family, of Lucca,

• Interlaced bar and flourishes at top of text page., Plutus (ff. 1-76v); Nubes (ff. 77-171)

the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 3378 (Venice, 1478 and 1479). Decorated headpieces. Large decorated initials. Plutus (ff. 1-76v); Nubes (ff. 77-171) The Minutoli-Tegrimi family, of Lucca,

• Text page showing Greek and Latin texts on alternate lines with Greek gloss., Plutus (ff. 1-76v); Nubes (ff. 77-171)

the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 3378 (Venice, 1478 and 1479). Decorated headpieces. Large decorated initials. Plutus (ff. 1-76v); Nubes (ff. 77-171) The Minutoli-Tegrimi family, of Lucca,

• Zoomorphic initial 'C'(allimachi), partly formed of two fish or dolphins, at the beginning of Book 3 of Propertius's Elegies., Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71) Copied from the 1493 reprint of the 1487 Beroaldus edition (Venice, Simon Bevilaqua), according to Butrica.Jonathan Toup (b. 1713 d. 1785), philologer and classical editor: his sale, 10 May 1786,

• 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

• Illuminated white vine-stem initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Book II of Martial's Epigrams; the text attributed to Pomponio Leto., Epigrams, preceeded by the Liber de Spectaculis (ff. 1-5, imperfect)

catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 43, col. 1); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and

• Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uanquam), the tail formed of a winged dragon-like creature; the lower margin with a partial border incorporating the Gonzaga arms, at the beginning of Cicero's Orationes., Orationes

Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uanquam), the tail formed of a winged dragon-like creature; the lower margin with a partial border incorporating the Gonzaga arms, at the beginning of Cicero's Orationes. 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with a partial