• null, De chorographia (ff. 1-23), and other works, including an account of a sea voyage (ff. 23v-25v)

an account of a sea voyage (ff. 23v-25v) Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7931): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot

• Illuminated initial 'I'(nterea) with red, green, and blue interlace; a full border of white vine scroll, with putti engaged in various activities, such as playing musical instruments or climbing the vines, and two heads in medallions in the upper corners at the beginning of the prologue of Augustine's City of God; the Donati family of Venice’s arms inside a wreath in the upper border and hanging from the outside border, and in the lower border, surrounded by a wreath with fruit and flowers, different arms of a lion rampant on an azure field and an eagle in the chief, crested with a crowned eagle’s head, possibly those of Capodilista family of Padua., De civitate dei (index City of God)

with the arms of the Donati family of Venice inside a wreath in the upper border and hanging from the outside border, and the arms possibly of the Capodilista family of Venice inside a wreath in the lower border (f.

• Miniature of a bishop, his robe covered in ~fleurs-de-lis~, seated in a mandorla of clouds holding a crown and the Tron family arms above a view of the bacino di San Marco in Venice, and a zoomorphic cartouche inscribed 'Nos Francis / cus Donato Dei / Gratia Dux / Venetiarum et Cetera', within a full border of grotesques, unicorns, and masks in gold monochrome with medallions of Francis of Assisi and Andrew (left) and a personification of Justice and a robed man, who is probably Alvise Tron (right)., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Francesco Donato to Alvise Tron as provveditore of Insula Vegla (Krk)

lot 2258/1 (f. 7v); lot purchased for £3 3s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Francesco Donato to Alvise Tron Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Headpiece and coloured initial., Commentary on Claudius Ptolemaeus's Harmonica

possibly in Venice; originally bound together in the same volume (spine marked [vol] '2'). Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (inscription '7950', f. i, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis

• 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 Venetian nobleman before the Virgin and Child with a landscape in the background within a border of interlocking frame of scollling foliage and flowres and medallions with vases of flowers, butterflies, rabbits and birds, and arms [defaced] suspended from a ribbon before a hilly landscape and the inscription 'Laus Deo MD / LXX di eta di / an[n]i ZZ'., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale)

May 1855, lot 2258*/2 (f. 9v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Leaf from a Doge's Commission 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)

• Detail of miniature., 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

• Diagram., 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., 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

• Diagram., 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