• null, 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

• null, 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

• null, 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

• null, 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

• Detail of arms., Orations and letters (ff. 1-147); Invectivum in Ciceronem (ff. 147v-149)

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.

• Historiated initial 'P'(rosodia) with the author in prayer before the Virgin and Child, and full foliate borders and a bas-de-page scene with a lion and apes, at the beginning of Johannes de Janua's Summa que vocatur Catholicon., Summa que vocatur Catholicon

red and blue. Summa que vocatur Catholicon ? Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), Venice: his catalogue (see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787) (see below).Eugen Buckingham, 1810: inscribed 'Given to me by George

• Miniature of Antonio Foscarini being presented to the Virgin and Child by (left to right) Anthony Abbot (bearded, in a hooded robe holding a staff), Nicholas of Bari (in bishop's robes, holding and three golden balls) and Bernardino of Siena (holding Christ's monogram IHS), in a zoomorphic cartouche made up of two sphinxes. Below the winged lion of Mark (symbolising Venice), the inscription in gold square capitals 'Nos Leonardus Lau / redanus Dei Gratia / Dux / Venetiarum et cae', and the Foscarini arms, or a bend lozengy azure. The whole on a ground decorated with scrolling foliage and classical armour within a painted frame. On the recto, a small decorated initial ‘C’ in colours and gold, beginning the text ‘Comittimus tibi nobili viro An / tonio fuschareno dilecto civi / [et] fideli nostro qui in bona gratia vadas et sis / Capitaneus Ripperi[a]e Brixiensis et Provisor / Salodii…’., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Leonardo Loredan to Antonio Foscarini as capitano of the Riviera of Brescia and provisor of Salò

1855, lot 2249/1 (f. 3v); lot purchased for £3 18s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Leonardo Loredan to Antonio Foscarini Benedetto Bordon Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Detail of a drawing of Ruth and Boaz., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Miniatures of heads of rulers., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawings of heads of various figures in a historical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Miniatures of heads of rulers., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Detail of the busts of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram, and a map of the world., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Detail of a 'T-O' map of the world, with Asia, Europe, and Africa marked., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawings of heads of various figures in a historical diagram, and 'T-O' map of the world., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by