• The left-hand page has a drawing in the form of a hand holding a placard bearing the catchword; the right-hand page has a foliate initial 'P'(rima) at the beginning of Horace's Epistles., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Marginal drawing of a seated old man holding a round red object in his left hand, adjacent to Horace's account of the Seven Ages of Man., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Decorated initial 'H'(umano)at the beginning of Horace's Ars poetica., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Marginal marks similar to notaries' marks on a former flyleaf., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Detail of decorated initial., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• null, Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Diagram, De chirobalistra (ff. 16v-19), Belopoeea (ff. 19-32v), Extracts (ff. 33v-52)

note (f. 359v).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. Diagram Heron of Alexandria, Apollodorus of Damascus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Detail of marginal diagram., De chirobalistra (ff. 16v-19), Belopoeea (ff. 19-32v), Extracts (ff. 33v-52)

note (f. 359v).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. Diagram Heron of Alexandria, Apollodorus of Damascus Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Detail of marginal drawing., Ars poetica (ff. 1-9), Epistolae (ff. 9-35), with marginal and interlinear glosses

century? (f. 1).Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see, Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360: his London sale,

• Foliate headpiece and 'T'(o) with penwork decoration at the beginning of Manuel Moschopoulos's Eklogai kata stoicheion onomaton Attikon., Eklogai kata stoicheion onomaton Attikon (ff. 2-69v), Peri onomaton (ff. 70-75v), and grammatical texts and observations

with the watermark 'W Turner & Son').Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Decorated headpiece and initial Georgios Tribizias Georgios Tribizias Manuel Moschopoulos, Anonymous Italy Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• null, Epistolae ad familiares

blue or red. Epistolae ad familiares Probably written before 1455: an oration made to the Doge of Venice by Galeazzo Maria Sforza in that year is added in a later hand on f. 2v.Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537): with

• null, Eklogai kata stoicheion onomaton Attikon (ff. 2-69v), Peri onomaton (ff. 70-75v), and grammatical texts and observations

of Burney paper with the watermark 'W Turner & Son').Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Detail Georgios Tribizias Georgios Tribizias Manuel Moschopoulos, Anonymous Italy Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of the Trojan horse entering the gates of Troy, and historiated initial 'C'(onticurre) of Aeneas carrying Anchises and leading Ascanius, at the beginning of book II of Virgil's Aeneid, with display capitals in a four-colour sequence and decorated initial 'C'., 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 Trojans watching the construction of Venice, Helen and Trojans at the building of Sycambria (Cymmbre?), Dido watching the construction of Carthage and Romulus supervising the building of Rome, at the beginning of book 3., Chronique de la Bouquechardière

watching the construction of Venice, Helen and Trojans at the building of Sycambria (Cymmbre?), Dido watching the construction of Carthage and Romulus supervising the building of Rome, at the beginning of book 3. 6 large miniatures in colours and gold

• Decorated initial 'V'(oi) with acanthus and white vine border at the beginning of Il canzionere. The coat of arms of the Priuli family (Venice) has been painted in the lower border in the early 16th century, seemingly over an effaced earlier shield., Il canzoniere (also known as Rime sparse; ff. 1-129v); I triunfi (ff. 130-167)

beginning of Il canzionere. The coat of arms of the Priuli family (Venice) has been painted in the lower border in the early 16th century, seemingly over an effaced earlier shield. Catchwords written vertically. Guide letters.According to unpublished notes of

• Illuminated white vine-stem border and illuminated initial 'A'(ntequam), with square capitals used as display script in an unfinished four-colour sequence; at the beginning of Cicero's Philippic orations., 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

perhaps including a circle in the lower half of the shield (f. 1).? A member of the Mocenigo family of Venice: with the arms, per fess ~azure~ and ~argent~, each half with a cinquefoil counter-charged (f. 1) (see Eugenio Morando

• Illuminated white vine-stem initial 'V'(ellem), and square capitals in a three-colour sequence; at the beginning of Cicero's ninth Philippic oration., 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

perhaps including a circle in the lower half of the shield (f. 1).? A member of the Mocenigo family of Venice: with the arms, per fess ~azure~ and ~argent~, each half with a cinquefoil counter-charged (f. 1) (see Eugenio Morando

• null, 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

perhaps including a circle in the lower half of the shield (f. 1).? A member of the Mocenigo family of Venice: with the arms, per fess ~azure~ and ~argent~, each half with a cinquefoil counter-charged (f. 1) (see Eugenio Morando

• null, 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

perhaps including a circle in the lower half of the shield (f. 1).? A member of the Mocenigo family of Venice: with the arms, per fess ~azure~ and ~argent~, each half with a cinquefoil counter-charged (f. 1) (see Eugenio Morando

• null, 14 Philippic orations (ff. 1-168); Somnium scipionis (ff. 168v-178v)

perhaps including a circle in the lower half of the shield (f. 1).? A member of the Mocenigo family of Venice: with the arms, per fess ~azure~ and ~argent~, each half with a cinquefoil counter-charged (f. 1) (see Eugenio Morando