• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ilexi) of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead., Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')

(f. 15); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240).Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141. Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(omine) with King David playing his harp, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms., Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')

(f. 15); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240).Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141. Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.

• Detail of a scribal colophon, reading: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV'., Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')

(f. 15); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240).Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141. Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.

• Abstract decorated headpiece., Plutus (ff. 1-76v); Nubes (ff. 77-171)

the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 3378 (Venice, 1478 and 1479). Decorated headpieces. Large decorated initials. Plutus (ff. 1-76v); Nubes (ff. 77-171) The Minutoli-Tegrimi family, of Lucca,

• Interlaced bar and flourishes at top of text page., Plutus (ff. 1-76v); Nubes (ff. 77-171)

the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 3378 (Venice, 1478 and 1479). Decorated headpieces. Large decorated initials. Plutus (ff. 1-76v); Nubes (ff. 77-171) The Minutoli-Tegrimi family, of Lucca,

• null, Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71) Copied from the 1493 reprint of the 1487 Beroaldus edition (Venice, Simon Bevilaqua), according to Butrica.Jonathan Toup (b. 1713 d. 1785), philologer and classical editor: his sale, 10 May 1786,

• null, Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71) Copied from the 1493 reprint of the 1487 Beroaldus edition (Venice, Simon Bevilaqua), according to Butrica.Jonathan Toup (b. 1713 d. 1785), philologer and classical editor: his sale, 10 May 1786,

• Full-page miniature in colours and gold, of Peace and Justice kissing within a painted ornamental frame with the winged lion of Mark and the arms of the Priuli family of Venice., Leaf from a Ducal Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Priuli

frame with the winged lion of Mark and the arms of the Priuli family of Venice. Italian cutting.The present cutting is bound in an album with Add. 18196, ff. 2-89. To see this cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order

• Illuminated initial and partial border with foliate decoration, with two winged putti supporting a laurel medallion with arms probably of the Bragadin family of Venice., Institutiones

supporting a laurel medallion with arms probably of the Bragadin family of Venice. Scribal marginal variants and occasional additions.Marginal notes by a later reader. Partial border and initial with foliate decoration in colours and gold, with two winged putti supporting

• Historiated initial 'M'(ecaenas) depicting a figure at a lectern, and a full white vine-stem border incorporating vignettes of readers, and heradry in the lower border; at the beginning of Horace's Carmina., Carmina (ff. 1-73v); Epodes (ff. 74-88v); Carmen saeculare (ff. 89-90v); Ars poetica (ff. 90v-101v); Epistulae (ff. 102-135); Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 135-181v)

(ff. 102-135); Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 135-181v) ? Perhaps owned by a member of the Badoeri or Emo families of Venice: with their arms, ~gules~, a lion rampant ~or~, 3 bends ~argent~ over all (f. 1); cf. King's 28; cf.

• null, Carmina (ff. 1-73v); Epodes (ff. 74-88v); Carmen saeculare (ff. 89-90v); Ars poetica (ff. 90v-101v); Epistulae (ff. 102-135); Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 135-181v)

(ff. 102-135); Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 135-181v) ? Perhaps owned by a member of the Badoeri or Emo families of Venice: with their arms, ~gules~, a lion rampant ~or~, 3 bends ~argent~ over all (f. 1); cf. King's 28; cf.

• null, Carmina (ff. 1-73v); Epodes (ff. 74-88v); Carmen saeculare (ff. 89-90v); Ars poetica (ff. 90v-101v); Epistulae (ff. 102-135); Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 135-181v)

(ff. 102-135); Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 135-181v) ? Perhaps owned by a member of the Badoeri or Emo families of Venice: with their arms, ~gules~, a lion rampant ~or~, 3 bends ~argent~ over all (f. 1); cf. King's 28; cf.

• Decorated initial 'C'(um), at the beginning of the prologue of the statutes of Venice., 'Promissio Serenissimi Principis Domini Laurentii Prioli, Inclyti Ducis Venetiarum', the statutes of Venice, with the undertaking of the Doge, Lorenzo Priuli, to observe the same

Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Decorated initial Joannes de Vitalibus Joannes de Vitalibus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• White vine initial 'M'(oysen) at the beginning of the text., Chronici canones (index Chronicon, Chronicle), ending with Veneti's alphabetical index of names (ff. 75-82)

edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 4803 (Venice, 1493) and 4804 (Syracuse, 1495; Venice, 1491-92, 1494).Original pagination in red ink.Piece of paper bound after f. [86] inscribed the title of

• Decorated initial 'H'(uc) and roundel defined by a ribbon bearing the inscription 'EXITUS ACTA PROBAT', enclosing an hourglass., Chronici canones (index Chronicon, Chronicle), ending with Veneti's alphabetical index of names (ff. 75-82)

edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 4803 (Venice, 1493) and 4804 (Syracuse, 1495; Venice, 1491-92, 1494).Original pagination in red ink.Piece of paper bound after f. [86] inscribed the title of

• Historiated initial ?'O' of two male saints, measuring 155 x 100 mm. On the reverse, two four-line staves, musical notation and partial text 'eluia'., Cuttings from a choir book

of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), cat. no. 70); Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, n. 162; Venice, Museo Correr, CL. II. 61, 64 and 437; Windsor, Royal Library, RL O1414; Unknown location, formerly

• Historiated initial 'G' with the Assumption of the Virgin, measuring 80 x 85 mm. On the reverse, one four-line stave, musical notation and partial text 'collau'., Cuttings from a choir book

of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), cat. no. 70); Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, n. 162; Venice, Museo Correr, CL. II. 61, 64 and 437; Windsor, Royal Library, RL O1414; Unknown location, formerly

• Historiated initial 'N' with Peter and Paul, measuring 160 x 160 mm. On the reverse, two four-line staves, musical notation and partial text '...expectatio /…bis iude'., Cuttings from a choir book

of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), cat. no. 70); Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, n. 162; Venice, Museo Correr, CL. II. 61, 64 and 437; Windsor, Royal Library, RL O1414; Unknown location, formerly

• Historiated initial 'I' or 'L' with Christ among the Doctors, measuring 165 x 160 mm. On the reverse, two four-line staves, musical notation and partial text '...Vidi m[us] /...in oriente et'., Cuttings from a choir book

of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), cat. no. 70); Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, n. 162; Venice, Museo Correr, CL. II. 61, 64 and 437; Windsor, Royal Library, RL O1414; Unknown location, formerly

• Foliate initial 'O', measuring 80 x 80 mm. On the reverse, one four-line stave, musical notation and partial text 'sti' (upper left)., Cuttings from a choir book

of the Middle Ages and Renaissance~ (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), cat. no. 70); Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, n. 162; Venice, Museo Correr, CL. II. 61, 64 and 437; Windsor, Royal Library, RL O1414; Unknown location, formerly