• Historiated initial 'P'(anditur) with a man wearing golden armour., Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues) (ff. 1-16v); Georgica (index Georgics) (ff. 16v-57v); Aeneis (index Aeneid) (ff. 57v-245); Appendix (ff. 245-263); Epitaphs (ff. 263-268)

of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Historiated initial Cristoforo Cortese Virgil (index Virgilius; Vergilius; Vergil; P. Vergilius Maro) Padua Italy, N.E. (possibly Venice or Padua)

• Historiated initial 'O(m[ni]p[oten]s) with a standing bishop and full border with besants, acanthus, flowers peacocks, and 2 putti supporting a bishop's coat of arms surmounted by a mitre and enclosed in a wreath. A (heraldic?) device seems to have been erased from the upper border., Benedictiones episcopales per totum annum (ff. 1-26); Consecratio olei (ff. 26v-33v); Consecrationes et ordinationes electi in episcopatum' (ff. 34-49) (index Benedictional)

Historiated initial 'O(m[ni]p[oten]s) with a standing bishop and full border with besants, acanthus, flowers peacocks, and 2 putti supporting a bishop's coat of arms surmounted by a mitre and enclosed in a wreath. A (heraldic?) device seems to have

• Headpiece with geometric and zoomorphic decoration. Notes added by John Covel (before 1715)., Collection of medical texts, including Aetius's 'Libri medicinales', Books 3-4 (ff. 1v-51, 53v-79v), and Hippocrates's 'Epistula ad Ptolemaeum regem' (ff. 80-83v) and 'Aphorismi', Books 2-6 (ff. 86-91v)

~Wasserzeichen Anker~, Die Wasserzeichenkartei Piccard im Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, Findbuch 6 (Stuttgart: Kotilhammer, 1978), nos. V 105-106 (from Trient 1572 and Venice 1573). Headpieces with geometric and zoomorphic decoration in red and black (ff. 2*, 1v, 51v, 85). Initials with pen-work

• Headpiece and initial 'M' with foliate and geometric decoration, and title in display capitals., Iliad, ending at Book 24, line 719, with glosses

of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 2531 (Venice, 1483, 1490); and Crown in Circle similar to C. M. Briquet, ~Les Filigranes~, cit., no. 4864 (San Stefano, Florence,

• Opening of Martial's Liber de Spectaculis, with the title in the square capitals attributed to Bartolomeo Sanvito, and the text to Pompino Leto. Illuminated white vine-stem initial 'B'(arbara) and border with white vine-stem decoration, green parrots, and putti holding a wreath (left blank, perhaps for the addition of a coat of arms)., Epigrams, preceeded by the Liber de Spectaculis (ff. 1-5, imperfect)

catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 43, col. 1); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and