• 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.

• Headpiece with geometric and foliate decoration and inscribed with title in coloured display capitals, and decorated initial 'T'., Gospel Lectionary, imperfect

Brusa (Bursa) in Bithynia, Turkey: inscription 'Codex Prusensis' (f. 1: see Wright 1972; another manuscript from the same monastery is Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, MS gr. I, 10 (Nanianus 3), see Summary Catalogue 1999).John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain

• 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)

• 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)