• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• null, 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

• Decorated initial 'P'(receptis), and the Pinelli number '7899' in the upper left-hand corner., Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

his marginal annotations (e.g. f. 11)Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (inscription '7899', f. 1, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7899): his London sale, 2

• Decorated initials 'N'(eminem) and 'R'(ex); the lower margin with a note stating that from the creation of the world (5199 years before the birth of Christ) to the present is 6,434 years., Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

his marginal annotations (e.g. f. 11)Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (inscription '7899', f. 1, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7899): his London sale, 2

• Headpiece and initial 'H'(Eta) with foliate decoration executed in reddish-brown, at the beginning of the homily for the third Sunday after Epiphany, or of the Publican and Pharisee., Homilies on the Gospels for each Sunday of the ecclesiastical year

the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Decorated headpiece and initial Nikolaos Malaxos Nikolaos Malaxos Collected by Philotheos Kokkinos, Patriarch of Constantinople Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice) or Eastern Mediterranean (Crete)

• Drawing of a siege engine as described by Biton in De constructione bellicarum machinarum., De machinis (ff. 1-9), De constructione bellicarum machinarum (ff. 9v-16)

purchased by Burney: note (f. 359v).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Siege engine Athenaeus, Biton Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• null, 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

• null, 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

• null, De machinis (ff. 1-9), De constructione bellicarum machinarum (ff. 9v-16)

1810, purchased by Burney: note (f. 359v).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Athenaeus, Biton Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Detail of a drawing of Ruth and Boaz., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Miniatures of heads of rulers., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawings of heads of various figures in a historical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by