• Decorated initial 'L'(a) and border., Modi singulari de cocina (recipes for made dishes, soups, sauces, pastry, etc.), with index at the end of the volume (ff. 1-23v, 105-107); Libro de manescalchia de tutte le febre ed ogni altre infirmitate che se generano in li caualli, composto per uno dicto Messer Joanne Facio per ordinatione de Re Carlo Magno Imperatore, preceded by a table of contents (ff. 25-104v)

Museum from H. Tross, Paris, 8 July 1865 (note inside upper cover), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). Decorated initial and border Venice Italy, N. (Venice)

• null, Homilies on the Gospels for each Sunday of the ecclesiastical year

circle, respectively).Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Nikolaos Malaxos Nikolaos Malaxos Collected by Philotheos Kokkinos, Patriarch of Constantinople Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice) or Eastern Mediterranean (Crete)

• null, Noctes Atticae

Noctes Atticae Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7943', f. 1, upper left corner, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7943; his sale,

• null, Noctes Atticae

Noctes Atticae Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7943', f. 1, upper left corner, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7943; his sale,

• Full-page frontispiece with the lion of Venice holding a book inscribed 'Pax tibi Marce Evangelista meus' above the heraldic device of Molino., 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

• White vine initial 'E'(t si) with decoration extending into the margins at the beginning of the text., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

£10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Pseudo-Cicero Venice Italy, N. E. (?Venice)

• Coloured drawing with Venice entiteld 'Die vorneme stat Venedig', at the beginning of an account of a journey from Venice to Palestine, Mount Sinai and Egypt., Account of a journey from Venice to Palestine, Mount Sinai and Egypt

Coloured drawing with Venice entiteld 'Die vorneme stat Venedig', at the beginning of an account of a journey from Venice to Palestine, Mount Sinai and Egypt. ff. 151v-155v added texts in different contemporary hands. f. 156 is a thick piece

• Detail of a white vine initial 'E'(t si) with decoration extending into the margins at the beginning of the text., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Detail Pseudo-Cicero Venice Italy, N. E. (?Venice)

• Detail of a white vine initial 'S'(uperio) and circular diagram of rainfall., Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis

by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 7464 (Udine and Venice, 1461; Rome, 1464), and 7465 (Florence, 1464; Venice, 1460-67, 1470-71, 1472; Venice and Ferrara, 1471-76). White vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 1, 5,

• Decorated initial 'E'(t si nego) and full border with flowers, cornucopias, candelabras, dragon heads and a defaced coat of arms, at the beginning of the text., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this manuscript was made in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century, possibly in Venice. Large initial in gold on a blue panel with foliate decoration, combined with a full border with flowers, cornucopias,

• Illuminated intial 'Q'(uanquam) and full border with heraldic arms (of the Lan family of Treviso ?), supported by sphinxes., Orationes, etc.

son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Illuminated initial and full border with heraldic arms Perhaps entirely by a scribe who wrote three other manuscripts for the Erizzo family of Venice. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, and others Italy Italy, N.E. (Venice)

• Illuminated initial 'S'(i), with unusual colours and interlace motifs, at the beginning of Cicero's Pro Sestio., Orationes, etc.

part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Illuminated initial Perhaps entirely by a scribe who wrote three other manuscripts for the Erizzo family of Venice. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, and others Italy Italy, N.E. (Venice)

• Inhabited illuminated initial 'Q'(ue), depicting a clothed cherub holding a shield (with the arms of the Lan family of Treviso ?), Orationes, etc.

part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Inhabited initial Perhaps entirely by a scribe who wrote three other manuscripts for the Erizzo family of Venice. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, and others Italy Italy, N.E. (Venice)

• Illuminated initials 'A'(dversus) and 'P'(rimum), at the beginning of Leonardo Bruni's Latin translation of Demosthenes's Oratio pro Ctesiphonte (or De corona)., Orationes, etc.

part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Illuminated initials Perhaps entirely by a scribe who wrote three other manuscripts for the Erizzo family of Venice. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, and others Italy Italy, N.E. (Venice)

• Illuminated initial 'A'(rma) at the beginning of Virgil's Aeneid, with coloured foliage; in the margins foliate decoration with gold balls, and in the lower margin the arms of the Machiavelli family quartered with other arms surrounded by a wreath., 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

• Text page in Virgil's Aeneid., 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

• Illuminated initial 'T'(ityre), at the beginning of Virgil's Eclogues., 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

• Illuminated initial 'C'(um) with woven knotwork decoration., Orationes, etc.

part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Illuminated initial Perhaps entirely by a scribe who wrote three other manuscripts for the Erizzo family of Venice. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, and others Italy Italy, N.E. (Venice)

• null, Orationes, etc.

as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Perhaps entirely by a scribe who wrote three other manuscripts for the Erizzo family of Venice. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, and others Italy Italy, N.E. (Venice)

• null, Orationes, etc.

as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Perhaps entirely by a scribe who wrote three other manuscripts for the Erizzo family of Venice. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, and others Italy Italy, N.E. (Venice)