• Miniature of Francesco Romago kneeling before an archangel who holds a book and points up to a vision of God the Father and the Holy Spirit and in the background a landscape with a view of the fortress of Citadella, within a full border with four grotesque figures and a quatrefoil inscribed 'XXXIII / Domine / Mitte / Angelum / De Caelo Qui Me / Custodit / et / Foveat'., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Francesco Venier to Francesco Romago as podestà of Citadella

diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258/3 (f. 10v); lot purchased for £3 30s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Presentation Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of a seated of Mark with his lion and a woman holding grapes before a landscape, within a border of scroll-work., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Alvise I Mocenigo to a Venetian nobleman as capitano

31 May 1855, lot 2257/1 (f. 17v); lot purchased for £3 3s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Alivse I Mocenigo Giorgio Colonna Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman being presented by Mark and Jerome to a vision of the Crucifixion within an ornate frame with an erased coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from ?Sebastiano Venier to Marco Antonio Venier as provveditore of Liesena (Hvar)

d. 1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/4 (f. 18v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Doge's Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman being presented by Jerome to a vision of the Crucifixion within an ornate frame with an overpainted coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from ?Pasquale Cicogna to Niccolò Michiel

1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/5 (f. 19v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Budapest Master Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature in colours and gold, of Alessandro Contarini holding a banner with a fleur-de-lys before Ursula (crowned, with the arrow of her martyrdom and martyr's palms) with her virgins and ship in the background, within an ornate frame with the Contarini family arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from ?Pasquale Cicogna to Alessandro Contarini as podestà of Bergamo

1779, d. 1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/6 (f. 20v); 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 a Venetian nobleman, probably named Teodoro, kneeling in prayer, being presented to the Virgin and Child by Theodore dressed in armour and holding a banner with the cross of George, within a gold border with the winged lion of Mark and an erased coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Venetian nobleman, probably named Teodoro, as capitano

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/9 (f. 24v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission to Teodoro as capitano Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman being presented by a female personification of Justice, who holds a staff with a scroll inscribed 'Pax et Iustitia', to Christ who is flanked by putti, within a border of gold scroll-work frame set with trompe l'oeil cameos, the four Evangelists and their symbols and an unidentified coat of arms (vert a bend azure argent)., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale).

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/15 (f. 32v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission to a Venetian nobleman Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Illuminated initial 'V'(enio) entwined with blue knotted strapwork, with the opening words of the text in square capitals, written in a three-colour sequence, at the beginning of Cicero's In verrem, book 4., 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

• Zoomorphic initial 'H'(esterno) [Hesternam] with interlace and a bird's head, at the beginning of Augustine's Tractatus 25 on the Gospel of John., 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

• Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uales) with interlace and an animal's head, and a snake? forming the tail of the letter, at the beginning of Augustine's Tractatus 103 on the Gospel of John., Sermon 7 in natale sanctae Mariae, imperfect

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, 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

• 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)

• 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

• Miniature of a female personification of Justice seated on a chariot drawn by two winged lions, flanked by female personifications of Faith (holding a chalice), Prudence (holding a mirror), Temperance (diluting wine with water from a pitcher) and Charity (with two children) within an architectual frame with the winged lion of Mark, the arms of the Malipiero, ivy leaves and a garland., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Girolamo Priuli to Nicolò Malipiero as capitano of Vicenza

1246' inscribed errroneously on f. 12v); purchased for £1 3s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Girolamo Priuli to Nicolò Malipiero Giorgio Colonna Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of Piero Michiel kneeling in prayer before a seated Virgin and Child, within an architectual border with the winged lion of Mark and the Michiel family arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Pietro Loredan to Piero Michiel as podestà of Montona (Motovun).

1855, lot 2258/2 (f. 13v); lot purchased for £3 3s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Pietro Loredan to Piero Michiel Giorgio Colonna Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)