that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Bitinus, son of Bertolus (colophon on f. 76) Bitinus Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero Venice Italy, N. E. (?Venice)
blue with flourishing in the other colour. Coloured initials in red or blue. Statuti di Venezia (Statutes of Venice) Made in Venice c. 1466-c. 1472: colophon stating that the manuscript was compiled and written between the 1st and 15th day
century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,