• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman being presented by Jerome to a vision of the Crucifixion within an ornate frame with an overpainted coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from ?Pasquale Cicogna to Niccolò Michiel

1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/5 (f. 19v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Budapest Master Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature in colours and gold, of Alessandro Contarini holding a banner with a fleur-de-lys before Ursula (crowned, with the arrow of her martyrdom and martyr's palms) with her virgins and ship in the background, within an ornate frame with the Contarini family arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from ?Pasquale Cicogna to Alessandro Contarini as podestà of Bergamo

1779, d. 1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/6 (f. 20v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman, probably named Teodoro, kneeling in prayer, being presented to the Virgin and Child by Theodore dressed in armour and holding a banner with the cross of George, within a gold border with the winged lion of Mark and an erased coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Venetian nobleman, probably named Teodoro, as capitano

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/9 (f. 24v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission to Teodoro as capitano Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman being presented by a female personification of Justice, who holds a staff with a scroll inscribed 'Pax et Iustitia', to Christ who is flanked by putti, within a border of gold scroll-work frame set with trompe l'oeil cameos, the four Evangelists and their symbols and an unidentified coat of arms (vert a bend azure argent)., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale).

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/15 (f. 32v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission to a Venetian nobleman Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Detail of miniature., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Diagram., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Diagram., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding an open book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man holding a book., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Detail of historiated initial of a man., Genealogia deorum gentilium

pen-flourishing. Drawing of a human head in the margin (f. 17v). Genealogia deorum gentilium Colophon, written for Giovanni Morosini at Venice in 1388: 'Hoc opus est domini Johannis Maurcoe [Mauroceno?] qui scribi fecit ipsum M^o^CCC^o^LXXXVIIJ^o^ indictione xj^a^ die xxiij^a^ mensis

• Pen-flourished initials., Martyrologium romanum (begins imperfectly, ff. 2-86v), etc.

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. Pen-flourished initials. Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)