• Drawing of a map of Antioch., 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 a map of Jerusalem., 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

• Genealogical diagram of the ancestors of Christ., 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 genealogical diagram of the ancestors of Christ., 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 genealogical diagram of the ancestors of Christ., 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

• Miniature of knights on horseback, during the First Crusade., 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 a map of Jerusalem., 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

• Miniature of Ranerio Foscarini, kneeling in prayer, being presented by a female personification of Justice to the Resurrected Christ, within a gold scroll-work border with the Foscarini family arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Alvise I Mocenigo to Raniero Foscarini as podestà and capitano of Rovigo

1779, d. 1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/8 (f. 23v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of female personifications of Justice flanked by Abundance and Faith, within a border with female personifications of four Virtues: (clockwise from top left) Hope, Prudence (holding a mirror), Temperance (pouring water from a pitcher into another containing wine) and Fortitude (holding a column)., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Alvise I Mocenigo to Bartolomeo Magno as provveditore of cividale del Friuli

May 1855, lot 2258*/? (f. 31v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Alvise I Mocenigo to Bartolomeo Magno Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• A large miniature of Francesco Barbarigo being presented to the Virgin, a title piece inscribed, 'Nos Leonardus Dei Gratia Dux Venetiarum etc', and a full border with medallions of the winged Venetian lion and the arms of Francesco Barbarigo in a landscape., Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as ~podestà~ and captain of Feltre (index Commissione dogali)

the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as ~podestà~ and captain of Feltre (index Commissione dogali) Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice, inscribed, 'Data in nostro ducali palatio die xij Februarij indictionum (?)... M.D.XV' (with a notarial signature) (f. 21).Francisco Barbarigo,

• Illuminated white vine-stem border and initial 'C'(redo) of strapwork, and square capitals as display script in alternating colours, at the beginning of Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino., 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.

• Illuminated white vine-stem initial 'Q'(uamquam), and display script in alternating colours in the style of Felice Feliciano of Verona, at the beginning of Cicero's De Imperio Cn. Pompei., 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.

• Miniature of a female personification of Justice, holding a sword and scales, seated with her foot resting on a terrestrial globe and her robes covering two lions, flanked by female personifications of Peace and Abundance holding a scroll inscribed 'Fiat Pax in Virtute Tua et Abundantia', within an ornate border with erased arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Pasquale Cicogna to Alvise Bellegno as luogotenente of Udine

1779, d. 1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258/5 (f. 21v); lot purchased for £3 3s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Decorated initial 'O'(rba) made up of interlaced white vines, at the beginning of six lines from Ovid's Tristia (book i, part vii, lines 35-40)., Metamorphoses (ff. 4-138v); Tristia (six lines only) (f. 138v)

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

• Initial 'I'(n) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of book 2 of Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium), with glosses

Initial 'I'(n) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of book 2 of Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium. 1 historiated initial with a full border, in part foliate, with a bird, putti and a ram?, in colours and gold, and in part

• Historiated initial 'E'(t) with an old man, and a full border with heraldic arms in the lower margin, at the beginning of Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium), with glosses

Historiated initial 'E'(t) with an old man, and a full border with heraldic arms in the lower margin, at the beginning of Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium. 1 historiated initial with a full border, in part foliate, with a bird,

• Decorated intial 'I'(n) of interlaced white vines, at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses., Metamorphoses (ff. 4-138v); Tristia (six lines only) (f. 138v)

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

• Decorated initial 'O'(rba) made up of interlaced white vines , at the beginning of six lines from Ovid's Tristia (book i, part vii, lines 35-40)., Metamorphoses (ff. 4-138v); Tristia (six lines only) (f. 138v)

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

• Historiated initial 'E'(t) with an old man, at the beginning of Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium), with glosses

Historiated initial 'E'(t) with an old man, at the beginning of Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium. 1 historiated initial with a full border, in part foliate, with a bird, putti and a ram?, in colours and gold, and in part

• Heraldic arms in the lower margin, at the beginning of Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium), with glosses

Heraldic arms in the lower margin, at the beginning of Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium. 1 historiated initial with a full border, in part foliate, with a bird, putti and a ram?, in colours and gold, and in part pen-flourished