• Display script and border., Commission from Giovanni Cornaro, Doge of Venice, to Benedetto Ciurano, as Proveditor and Captain of the Island of Corfu

the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Border Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Title page., Commission from Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice, appointing Andrea Gritti governor of Šibenik

the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Title page Venice Italy, N. (Venice)

• Miniature of the Pieta and Gradenigo in prayer., Commission of Pietro Loredano, Doge of Venice, appointing Giovanni Paulo Gradenigo, Podestà and Capitano of Feltri

Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Pieta and Gradenigo Venice Italy, N. (Venice)

• Miniature of Justicia., Commission of Pietro Loredano, Doge of Venice, appointing Giovanni Paulo Gradenigo, Podestà and Capitano of Feltri

using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Justicia Venice Italy, N. (Venice)

• Historiated initial with author portrait of Dante and foliate border., Divina Commedia (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso)(index Divine Comedy)

Divina Commedia (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso)(index Divine Comedy) Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), Venice: his catalogue (see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), V, no. 3893); bought by Mason for 10 guineas (note

• Miniature with the Virgin and the ~doge~ of Venice, with a full foliate border including medaillons and heraldic arms in the lower margin., Commission of Andrea Gritti, ~doge~ of Venice, appointing Aloysio Capello ~podestà~ of Castelfranco

Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Miniature and border Venice Italy, N. (Venice)

• Historiated initial with men in ship and foliate border., Divina Commedia (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso)(index Divine Comedy)

Divina Commedia (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso)(index Divine Comedy) Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), Venice: his catalogue (see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), V, no. 3893); bought by Mason for 10 guineas (note

• Historiated initial and foliate border., Divina Commedia (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso)(index Divine Comedy)

Divina Commedia (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso)(index Divine Comedy) Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), Venice: his catalogue (see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), V, no. 3893); bought by Mason for 10 guineas (note

• Decorated initial 'A'(harmonike) and marginal diagrams at the beginning of Ptolemy's Harmonica., Harmonica

by the same scribe as Burney 103 and 108, possibly in Venice; originally bound together in the same volume (spine marked [vol] 'I'). Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (inscription '7949, f. i verso, upside down at the foot of

• Decorated initial and full border all antica with heraldic arms in the lower margin., Commission from Andrea Gritti, ~doge~ of Venice, appointing Francesco Morosini governor of Treviso

Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Decorated initial and border Venice Italy, N. (Venice)

• Partial knotwork headpiece and decorated initial 'O'(rbis) at the beginning of Pomponius Mela's De chorographia., 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

• Miniature of the Virgin and Child with Benedictus Longus, the winged lion of Venice beside him, linked to the frame by use of gold; in the lower center of the frame his arms., Commissio qua constituit Benedictum Longum rectorem Caneae insulae Cretae

leaf verso; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.1.22’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Virgin and Child with patron Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Illustration of chapters 11-13 of Heron's Pneumatics, of two men offering libations at an altar; a diagram of a vessel from which the contents flow when filled to a certain height; and a diagram of 'harmonius goblets', from which the contents flow by a liquid being poured into one only, each illustration very similar to those reproduced from Venice, Marciana MS 516, f. 171r-v in Pneumatics, Hall p. 123., Pneumatica (ff. 27-81v); De automatis (ff. 81v-100)

81v-100) Written by the same scribe as Burney 102 and 103, possibly in Venice, and originally bound together in the same volume. Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (inscription '7952', f. iii, an original paper flyleaf, upper left corner, corresponding

• Heraldic decoration., Commission of Doge Francisus Erizzo to Antonio Barbadico

the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. Heraldic decoration Venice Italy, North (Venice)

• Miniature of the Virgin and Child looking down on a Venetian nobleman receiving a book from a seated Mark before a landscape, and the inscription 'Anno Aetatis XLII' within a border of putti with urns and garlands., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale)

May 1855, lot 2254 (f. 11v); purchased for £1 1s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Doge's commission to a Venetian nobleman Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• White vine initial 'T'(erentii), Vita Terentii (ff. 1-3v); Comoediae (index Comedies) (ff. 3v-169)

'Loci s. Francisci a Vinea Venetis ex testamento Io. Francisci Vaca' (f. 1).The Library of San Francesco della Vigna at Venice: given by Giovanni Francesco Vaca (see above).A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini (see Wright 1972).John Gibson

• Historiated initial 'S'(oror) showing Seneca holding an open book at the beginning of Seneca's Tragedies, with a three-sided foliate border., Tragoediae (index Tragedies), with argumenta

catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 58, col. 1); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and

• Illuminated white vine initial 'G'(loriosissimam) at the beginning of Augustine's first book of the City of God., 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.

• Illuminated initial 'D'(i) with a flower in the bowl of the letter and gold balls extending into the margin at the beginning of Seneca's Medea., Tragoediae (index Tragedies), with argumenta

catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 58, col. 1); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and

• null, Tragoediae (index Tragedies), with argumenta

catalogue (see ~Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo~ (Venice: Pasquali, 1755), p. 58, col. 1); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and