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

Brienne family (index Lomenie de Brienne): sold by the son of Louis-Henri de Loménie (b. 1635, d. 1698) through the London bookseller James Woodman on 18 May 1724 to Edward Harley (see Wright 1972). The Harley Collection, formed by Robert

• Detail of a miniature of the French army disembarking in Africa, led by the duke of Bourbon holding a shield bearing the royal arms of France, with a partial border., Chroniques

Palace of 1535, no. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. French army disembarks in Africa Master of the Harley Froissart Master of the London Wavrin Jehan Froissart Netherlands, S.

• Detail of a miniature of Charles VI, king of France, and his army entering a castle., Chroniques

Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Charles VI of France Master of the Harley Froissart Master of the London Wavrin Jehan Froissart Netherlands, S.

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

lot 2.Henry Ellis Allen; by descent to his son Samuel Allen and grandson Capt. Samuel Allen: their sale at Sotheby's, London, 30 January 1920, lot 3, bought by Maggs for £18 10s: cutting from the sales catalogue with a description

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

lot 2.Henry Ellis Allen; by descent to his son Samuel Allen and grandson Capt. Samuel Allen: their sale at Sotheby's, London, 30 January 1920, lot 3, bought by Maggs for £18 10s: cutting from the sales catalogue with a description

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

lot 2.Henry Ellis Allen; by descent to his son Samuel Allen and grandson Capt. Samuel Allen: their sale at Sotheby's, London, 30 January 1920, lot 3, bought by Maggs for £18 10s: cutting from the sales catalogue with a description

• Detail of a miniature of the French army disembarking in Africa, led by the duke of Bourbon holding a shield bearing the royal arms of France, with a partial border., Chroniques

Palace of 1535, no. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. French army disembarks in Africa Master of the Harley Froissart Master of the London Wavrin Jehan Froissart Netherlands, S.

• Full foliate border containing putti, a unicorn, a female head in profile, a gem, and an escutcheon with the arms of Tedaldi, and an illuminated initial 'S'(emper) at the beginning of Juvenal's Satires., Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)

3164 (see J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey~, (London: Faber, 1969), p. 63). Attavante degli Attavanti Juvenal (index Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Italy Italy, Central (Florence)

• The left-hand page has a drawing in the form of a hand holding a placard bearing the catchword; the right-hand page has a foliate initial 'P'(rima) at the beginning of Horace's Epistles., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12844, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards

• Marginal drawing of a seated old man holding a round red object in his left hand, adjacent to Horace's account of the Seven Ages of Man., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12844, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards

• White vine initial 'C'(um), and decorated initial 'P'(rincipio), at the beginning of Justin's Historiarium libri quadraginta quatuor., Historiarium libri quadraginta quatuor

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1).Purchased by the British Museum

• Historiated initial 'H'(ec) with Moses crossing the red sea or bringing water from a rock with his rod(?), at the beginning of Deuteronomy., Glossed Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy (ends imperfectly)

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate inside upper

• Historiated initial 'N' with Moses with the two tablets, at the beginning of Numbers., Glossed Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy (ends imperfectly)

and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate inside upper

• Decorated initial 'H'(umano)at the beginning of Horace's Ars poetica., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12844, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards

• Marginal marks similar to notaries' marks on a former flyleaf., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12844, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards

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

lot 2.Henry Ellis Allen; by descent to his son Samuel Allen and grandson Capt. Samuel Allen: their sale at Sotheby's, London, 30 January 1920, lot 3, bought by Maggs for £18 10s: cutting from the sales catalogue with a description

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

lot 2.Henry Ellis Allen; by descent to his son Samuel Allen and grandson Capt. Samuel Allen: their sale at Sotheby's, London, 30 January 1920, lot 3, bought by Maggs for £18 10s: cutting from the sales catalogue with a description

• Detail of decorated initial., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12844, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards

• null, Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12844, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1, top right).James Edwards

• null, Satires (index Saturae, Satirae)

3164 (see J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, ~The Italian manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey~, (London: Faber, 1969), p. 63). Attavante degli Attavanti Juvenal (index Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Italy Italy, Central (Florence)