• Initial 'A' with filigree decoration., Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary)

Oxford', ~Burlington Magazine~, 120 (1978), 585-93).John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author: his sale, 16 March 1858, lot 1831: purchased by the British Museum for £16. Initial Master of the Donato Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Decorated headpiece at the beginning of Hermogenes's Peri ton staeon., Peri ton stason, Peri eureseon, Peri ideon logou, with prologues, and various notes, proverbs, and verses

various notes, proverbs, and verses Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice: inscription '7909' (f. 1v), corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7909): his London sale, 2

• Title page with decorated border., Commission from the doge of Venice, Francesco Ericcio, to Antonio Molino

(f. 2). Text in gold (f. 2). Commission from the doge of Venice, Francesco Ericcio, to Antonio Molino Made in 1635 as a commission by the doge of Venice, Francesco Ericcio, to Antonio Molino appointing him Proveditore of Cattaro for

• Decorated initial 'C'(haos) with white vine decoration, at the beginning of the text by Lactantius, Ovidii Metamorphoseon fabularum narratio, and the arms of the Donati family of Venice with an animal head above the shield., Ovidii Metamorphoseon fabularum narratio, and other mythological texts

of the Donati family of Venice with an animal head above the shield. Large coloured initials with white vine scroll decoration. Small simple red or blue initials. The arms of the Donati family of Venice surmounted by a lion's head

• White vine initial 'C'(um), at the beginning of Frontinus's Strategemata., Strategemata (index Strategematica)

from Venice, 1471. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. White vine initial 'Petrus Leo Ortinus' Petrus Leo Ortinus Frontinus Venice

• null, Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues), Georgica (index Georgics), Aeneis (index Aeneid)(imperfect), with Argumenta, prologue, and verses

Machiavelli family quartered with other arms (f. 59). Notes by Paulus Manutius (b. 1512, d. 1574), printer and scholar of Venice (contemporary note, f. 2v, inscription: ‘Pauli Amicorum L(iber)’ (f. 2); the library of the Manutius family dispersed after the

• null, Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues), Georgica (index Georgics), Aeneis (index Aeneid)(imperfect), with Argumenta, prologue, and verses

Machiavelli family quartered with other arms (f. 59). Notes by Paulus Manutius (b. 1512, d. 1574), printer and scholar of Venice (contemporary note, f. 2v, inscription: ‘Pauli Amicorum L(iber)’ (f. 2); the library of the Manutius family dispersed after the

• Detail of illuminated initial., Strategemata (index Strategematica)

3766, from Venice, 1471. Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail 'Petrus Leo Ortinus' Petrus Leo Ortinus Frontinus Venice Italy,

• Initial with reserved designs,, Scala paradisi, etc.

Scala paradisi, etc. Colophon 'Finito libro sit laus et gloria christo Anno domini M^o^.cccc^o^.xl^o^. mense augusti' (f. 87).S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, c. 1440: inscribed 'Johannes climaciis numero 190', and 'Iste liber est congregationis unitatis alias nuncupate sancte Justine [de Padua]

• Detail of decorated initial., Ovidii Metamorphoseon fabularum narratio, and other mythological texts

the Donati family of Venice surmounted by a lion's head (f. 1). Guide letters. Ovidii Metamorphoseon fabularum narratio, and other mythological texts ‘Mithologeiarum liber feliciter finit anno domini M .CCCC.LXII’ (f. 185v). The Donati family of Venice, (arms, f. 1).

• Detail of heraldry., Ovidii Metamorphoseon fabularum narratio, and other mythological texts

the Donati family of Venice surmounted by a lion's head (f. 1). Guide letters. Ovidii Metamorphoseon fabularum narratio, and other mythological texts ‘Mithologeiarum liber feliciter finit anno domini M .CCCC.LXII’ (f. 185v). The Donati family of Venice, (arms, f. 1).

• Miniature of Mark with his lion crowning a female personification of Venice within a border of scroll-work and garlands of fruit and flowers., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Alvise I Mocenigo to Marco Corner (index Cornaro)

May 1855, lot 2258*/3 (f. 15v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Alvise I Mocenigo to Marco Corner Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• 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.

• Gold-stamped and blind-tooled late fifteenth-century Venetian binding., De re militari, with prefatory letter

date 'May 27th 1783', f. 1).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Venetian binding Antonius Vegnatus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• 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.

• null, De re militari, with prefatory letter

the date 'May 27th 1783', f. 1).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Antonius Vegnatus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• null, De re militari, with prefatory letter

the date 'May 27th 1783', f. 1).Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Antonius Vegnatus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)