• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman kneeling in prayer before the Virgin and Child within an ornate border of gold scroll-work with an erased coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale)

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/12 (f. 28v); 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)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman, probably called Giacomo or James, being presented with a commission by a doge, before James the Great, Sebastian and a vision of the Crucifixion, within a border of gold scroll-work with an erased coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Venetian nobleman, probably called Giacomo or Sebastiano

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/13 (f. 29v); lot purchased for £3 5s 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 'C'(ai[us])., Epistolae (index Letters)

with an inscription on f. 1. Ruled in hardpoint. Quire signatures: A, B, etc. Written in Italy, possibly Venice c. 1420, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 8 large initials in

• Miniature of Hercules and Cerberus and historiated initial of a lady in profile at the beginning of Hercules furens., Tragoediae (index Tragedies), with marginal gloss

beginning of Hercules furens. Catchwords written horizontally.This manuscript is dated to the early 15th century, possibly Venice, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.Each tragedy is introduced by a prologue. Miniature (damaged),

• Headpiece with foliate and geometric decoration and decorated initial., 'Grammatica Isagoge Graece', Books 1-4

Decorated initials, rubrics and marginalia in brown. 'Grammatica Isagoge Graece', Books 1-4 Written by Georgios Tribizias, a Greek priest in Venice (ff. 1-146; see Gamillscheg and Harlfinger 1978 and 1981).Partly written at Padua by Pietro Bravi of Verona (index Petrus

• 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

• 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)

• 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 the shepherds Tityrus (seated) and Meliboeus (standing), at the beginning of Virgil's Eclogues, and decorated initial 'T'(ityre) embellished with putti sitting in swags and dolphins, and a full border with all'antica decorative elements, including strings of gems, putti, swags, and garlands, and the arms and heraldic devices of Ludovico Agnelli in the lower margin., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-16v); Georgica (index Georgics)(ff. 17-58), with argumenta; Aeneis (index Aeneid)(ff. 58v-244v), with argumenta and verse preface, omitting 2:567-588 ('The King's Virgil')

of an apostolic protonotary, his device of a lamb (ff. 1, 17, 59). ? Probably Zaccaria Sagredo (b. 1653, d. Venice, 1729), Venetian collector of paintings, prints and drawings, purchased for 2,000 Venetian lire, and sold to Smith: 18th-century inscription

• Miniature of the activities of early spring (indicated by the trees' bare branches), such as ploughing and fence-mending, at the beginning of Virgil's Georgics; decorated initial 'Q'(uid) with three satyrs, with sheaves of wheat and golden grapes, and a full border decorated with sheaves of wheat, cornucopiae, swags, and strings of gems., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues)(ff. 1-16v); Georgica (index Georgics)(ff. 17-58), with argumenta; Aeneis (index Aeneid)(ff. 58v-244v), with argumenta and verse preface, omitting 2:567-588 ('The King's Virgil')

of an apostolic protonotary, his device of a lamb (ff. 1, 17, 59). ? Probably Zaccaria Sagredo (b. 1653, d. Venice, 1729), Venetian collector of paintings, prints and drawings, purchased for 2,000 Venetian lire, and sold to Smith: 18th-century inscription