• Detail of border with the device of three maces., De evangelica praeparatione

Pliny was active in Venice and Naples from 1472 to 1483 (see Bollati 2004). He derives his name from an incunable decorated by him: British Library IC19662, containing Pliny's ~Natural History~, printed by Nicolas Jenson in Venice in 1472 (see

• Detail of border with device of 'Solomon's knot' supported by an eagle., De evangelica praeparatione

Pliny was active in Venice and Naples from 1472 to 1483 (see Bollati 2004). He derives his name from an incunable decorated by him: British Library IC19662, containing Pliny's ~Natural History~, printed by Nicolas Jenson in Venice in 1472 (see

• Detail of faceted initial 'N'(unc)., De evangelica praeparatione

Pliny was active in Venice and Naples from 1472 to 1483 (see Bollati 2004). He derives his name from an incunable decorated by him: British Library IC19662, containing Pliny's ~Natural History~, printed by Nicolas Jenson in Venice in 1472 (see

• Detail of faceted initial 'N'(unc) with Hercules and serpents., De evangelica praeparatione

Pliny was active in Venice and Naples from 1472 to 1483 (see Bollati 2004). He derives his name from an incunable decorated by him: British Library IC19662, containing Pliny's ~Natural History~, printed by Nicolas Jenson in Venice in 1472 (see

• Detail of the colophon with the motto of the 'Omnium rerum' scribe: 'Omnium rerum vicissitudo est'., De evangelica praeparatione

Pliny was active in Venice and Naples from 1472 to 1483 (see Bollati 2004). He derives his name from an incunable decorated by him: British Library IC19662, containing Pliny's ~Natural History~, printed by Nicolas Jenson in Venice in 1472 (see

• Initial 'M' with penwork decoration in leaf patterns and capitals on coloured grounds., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

hand of the mid-12th century contains a narrative of the schism in the papacy, 1159, and the peace of Venice by which Pope Alexander III and the Emperor Frederick I were reconciled (f. 188). Marginal pencil drawings representing the Virgin

• Text page., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

a narrative of the schism in the papacy, 1159, and the peace of Venice by which Pope Alexander III and the Emperor Frederick I were reconciled (f. 188). Marginal pencil drawings representing the Virgin and Child (f. 75), the Crucifixion

• Large initial 'V' with penwork decoration (incomplete)., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

mid-12th century contains a narrative of the schism in the papacy, 1159, and the peace of Venice by which Pope Alexander III and the Emperor Frederick I were reconciled (f. 188). Marginal pencil drawings representing the Virgin and Child (f.

• Miniature of Nemrod and the construction of the tower of Babel, at the beginning of book 4., 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 Noah coming out of the Ark, and the construction of Argos and of Athens, at the beginning of book 1., 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

• Text page in book 4., 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 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

• Decorated initial 'D'(eus) at the beginning of the book., Epistolae, imperfect at the end

1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 8936 (made in Venice 1443-9). Large initial in colours and gold (f. 1). Rubrics in red. Large plain initials in blue or red.

• Decorated initial 'S'(egondo) at the beginning of the text., History of Venice to 1439

initials in alternating red or grey (f. 1). Spaces for initials left blank or with a faint outline. History of Venice to 1439 Gaspard Coignet de la Thuilerie, count of Courson (d. 1653): his armorial binding.The Loménie de Brienne family

• 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,

• Initial with foliate decoration., Psalter, imperfect, including Odes (ff. 219v-232v)

Mielke, 1974-1980), 'Chapeau' nos. 75-79 (Rome 1537; scribe Georgios Tryphon, 1548 and 1549; scribe Ioasaph 1547; scribe Andreas Darmarios at Venice, 1565). Headpieces with geometric or foliate decoration in red, effaced (ff. 115, 219). Decorated initials and titles in light

• 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