• Detail of historiated initial of a man., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding an open book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• null, Tractatus in Evangelium Ioannis, imperfect, lacking tracts 18 and 19 and substituting Sermo 125 (ff. 66-70)

Notes with dates 1318 and 1335 (ff. 1, 1v).Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (listed in his inventory: see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7896: his sale, 2 March 1789, lot

• null, Tractatus in Evangelium Ioannis, imperfect, lacking tracts 18 and 19 and substituting Sermo 125 (ff. 66-70)

Notes with dates 1318 and 1335 (ff. 1, 1v).Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (listed in his inventory: see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7896: his sale, 2 March 1789, lot

• Miniature of a nobleman of the Zane family of Venice standing beside a column within a border of gold scroll-work with medallions of the winged lion of Mark, birds (including a peacock and a rooster), Minerva, Ceres and the Zane arms, and butterflies, insects and snails. On the verso, a miniature of the winged lion of Mark holding a book, framed by a border of scroll-work in blue, yellow and pink and pink roses., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a member of the Zane family of Venice.

of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a member of the Zane family of Venice. A member of the noble Zane family of Venice and governor in the last quarter of the 16th century: their arms (f. 33).Charles Stuart,

• Detail of a miniature of several episodes from book IV of Virgil's Aeneid: on the right, the hunt during which Dido and Aeneas meet; on the left, Dido and Aeneas ride into a cave together, and in the middle of the image, Dido is on her funeral pyre, committing suicide after the departure of Aeneas.and decorated initial 'A'(t)., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-16v); Georgica (index Georgics)(ff. 17-58), with argumenta; Aeneis (index Aeneid)(ff. 58v-244v), with argumenta and verse preface, omitting 2:567-588 ('The King's Virgil')

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

• Miniature in colours and gold, of female personifications of Justice and Peace kissing before another female figure holding a crown and two fronds, beneath a vision of God holding the terrestrial globe, within a border of gold scroll-work with the arms of the ?Bragadin family of Venice (azure a cross gules argent)., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Venetian nobleman, possibly a member of the Bragadin family

?Bragadin family of Venice (azure a cross gules argent). Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Venetian nobleman, possibly a member of the Bragadin family ?A member of the noble Bragadin family of Venice in the last

• Miniature of Girolamo Zane giving a coin to a kneeling woman in a crowded hall; in a balcony above a woman holds a fish-spear, possibly personifying the Adriatic Sea (see Warner and Gilson 1921 p. 32) or, more probably, Venice (see Chambers 1983 p. 396), with Mark and his symbol of a lion., Giuramento (Commission and oath) of Girolomo (Hieronymus) Zane as Procurator de citra of Saint Mark, Venice

in 1762. King George III (b. 1738, d. 1820).Given to the British Museum by King George IV in 1823 as part of the library of King George III. Distribution of alms Giovanni Vitale Giovanni Vitale Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Decorated initial and full border all antica with heraldic arms in the lower margin., Commission from Andrea Gritti, ~doge~ of Venice, appointing Francesco Morosini governor of Treviso

Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Decorated initial and border Venice Italy, N. (Venice)

• Opening page of Cicero's Philippic orations, with a decorated intial 'A'(ntequam), and an added illuminated foliate border and heraldry., Philippics

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,

• Miniature of the Virgin and Child with Benedictus Longus, the winged lion of Venice beside him, linked to the frame by use of gold; in the lower center of the frame his arms., Commissio qua constituit Benedictum Longum rectorem Caneae insulae Cretae

leaf verso; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.1.22’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Virgin and Child with patron Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• null, Philippics

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

• null, Philippics

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