• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram, and a map of the world., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Detail of a 'T-O' map of the world, with Asia, Europe, and Africa marked., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawings of heads of various figures in a historical diagram, and 'T-O' map of the world., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of heads of rulers in a genealogical diagram., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Detail of a drawing of Moses., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Detail of a map of Antioch., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of a map of Antioch., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of a map of Jerusalem., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Genealogical diagram of the ancestors of Christ., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Detail of genealogical diagram of the ancestors of Christ., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Detail of genealogical diagram of the ancestors of Christ., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Miniature of knights on horseback, during the First Crusade., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Drawing of a map of Jerusalem., Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna

of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).Bought by

• Miniature of Antonio Foscarini being presented to the Virgin and Child by (left to right) Anthony Abbot (bearded, in a hooded robe holding a staff), Nicholas of Bari (in bishop's robes, holding and three golden balls) and Bernardino of Siena (holding Christ's monogram IHS), in a zoomorphic cartouche made up of two sphinxes. Below the winged lion of Mark (symbolising Venice), the inscription in gold square capitals 'Nos Leonardus Lau / redanus Dei Gratia / Dux / Venetiarum et cae', and the Foscarini arms, or a bend lozengy azure. The whole on a ground decorated with scrolling foliage and classical armour within a painted frame. On the recto, a small decorated initial ‘C’ in colours and gold, beginning the text ‘Comittimus tibi nobili viro An / tonio fuschareno dilecto civi / [et] fideli nostro qui in bona gratia vadas et sis / Capitaneus Ripperi[a]e Brixiensis et Provisor / Salodii…’., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Leonardo Loredan to Antonio Foscarini as capitano of the Riviera of Brescia and provisor of Salò

1855, lot 2249/1 (f. 3v); lot purchased for £3 18s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission from Leonardo Loredan to Antonio Foscarini Benedetto Bordon Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature illustrating book III of Virgil's Georgics, with shepherds in a landscape with sheep, goats, cattle, sheep-shearing, and milking., 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 Aeneas with the Sibyl at the entrance to the Underworld; with Charon in his boat and Cerberus at the gate, with faceted initial below, at the beginning of book VI of Virgi's Aeneid., 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

• A large miniature of Francesco Barbarigo being presented to the Virgin, a title piece inscribed, 'Nos Leonardus Dei Gratia Dux Venetiarum etc', and a full border with medallions of the winged Venetian lion and the arms of Francesco Barbarigo in a landscape., Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as ~podestà~ and captain of Feltre (index Commissione dogali)

the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as ~podestà~ and captain of Feltre (index Commissione dogali) Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice, inscribed, 'Data in nostro ducali palatio die xij Februarij indictionum (?)... M.D.XV' (with a notarial signature) (f. 21).Francisco Barbarigo,

• Miniature of Emperor Constantine the Great., Chronicle of the Byzantine emperors, beginning with Constantine the Great (ff. 3-492); Last vision of Daniel (f. 494-496v)

104-108 (from Udine 1563, Trient 1572, Venice 1573, and Innsbruck 1568); Dieter and Johanna Harlfinger, ~Wasserzeichen aus griechischen Handschriften~ (Berlin: N. Mielke, 1974-1980), nos. 67 (scribe: Antonios Eparchos, 1567), 77 (Meteora, 1570), 78 (Venice, 1560). Miniature of Constantine the Great