• 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)

• Coloured initials., Service book, fragment

14th-century hand (f. 126).Marginal notes and ~maniculae~ added by 14th- and 15th-century Italian hands.Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), dealer: owned at Venice in 1722 (see Wright 1972). The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of

• Historiated initial with an author portrait of a man holding a closed book at the beginning of Rasis's de aluminibus et salibus., Medical miscellany, including Gerald of Cremona' s translation of Rasis's Liber divisionum de aluminibus et salibus.

Historiated initial with an author portrait of a man holding a closed book at the beginning of Rasis's de aluminibus et salibus. Initials removed (e.g., original folio following f. 1; f. 9, 20). 1 historiated initial in colours with

• Map of Ireland., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of Ireland Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of Britain (~Tille~, Scotland, and England)., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of Britain Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of the Iberian Peninsula., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of the Iberian Peninsula Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of France., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of France Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of Germany., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of Germany Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of Germany., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of Germany Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of the Italian Peninsula, with islands and part of the Balkans., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of the Italian Peninsula Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of Corsica., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of Corsica Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of Sicily., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of Sicily Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of the north and west coasts of the Black Sea., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of the Black Sea Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of the region east of the Caspian Sea., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of the Caspian Sea Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of central and east Asia between ~Sogdii montes~ and ~terra incognita~, Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of central and east Asia Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Map of north-west Africa with the pillars of Hercules at Gibraltar., Geography (index Cosmographie primus), translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, with eighteen maps of Europe, Asia and Africa (index portolan charts, nautical maps, mappamundi)

Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Map of north-west Africa Ptolemy (index Claudius Ptolemaeus), translated by Emanuel Chrysoloras and Jacobus Angelus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)