• Decorated initial and border., Commission from Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice, appointing Aloysio Zeno ~capitano~ of Ravenna

full foliate border including medaillons with the lion of Venice, a bishop, and heraldic arms in front of a landscape with a rabbit (f. 1). Commission from Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice, appointing Aloysio Zeno ~capitano~ of Ravenna Aloysio Zeno:

• 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

• Miniature of Aeneas with the Sibyl at the entrance to the Underworld; with Charon in his boat and Cerberus at the gate, with faceted initial below, at the beginning of book VI of Virgi's Aeneid., 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

• Initial 'M' with penwork decoration in leaf patterns and capitals on coloured grounds., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

hand of the mid-12th century contains a narrative of the schism in the papacy, 1159, and the peace of Venice by which Pope Alexander III and the Emperor Frederick I were reconciled (f. 188). Marginal pencil drawings representing the Virgin

• Text page., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

a narrative of the schism in the papacy, 1159, and the peace of Venice by which Pope Alexander III and the Emperor Frederick I were reconciled (f. 188). Marginal pencil drawings representing the Virgin and Child (f. 75), the Crucifixion

• Large initial 'V' with penwork decoration (incomplete)., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

mid-12th century contains a narrative of the schism in the papacy, 1159, and the peace of Venice by which Pope Alexander III and the Emperor Frederick I were reconciled (f. 188). Marginal pencil drawings representing the Virgin and Child (f.