• Miniature of an African man looking at a vision of female personifications of Venice as Justice and Truth, within an ornamental border with cartouches inscribed 'Veritas / De terra / Orta Est / Et Iustitia / De Coelo / Pr[o]spexi/ t' (Psalm 85:11) and the arms of the Morosini dalla Sbarra family of Venice (or a bend azure)., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) from Pasquale Cicogna to Tommaso Morosini dalla Sbarra as of podestà and capitano of Crema

1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/7 (f. 22v); lot purchased for £2 8s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission Huntington Master Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of the Virgin and Child looking down on a Venetian nobleman receiving a book from a seated Mark before a landscape, and the inscription 'Anno Aetatis XLII' within a border of putti with urns and garlands., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale)

May 1855, lot 2254 (f. 11v); purchased for £1 1s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Doge's commission to a Venetian nobleman Master T.° Ve. Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman, probably named Alvise, kneeling in prayer, being presented to the Virgin and Child by a male saint and Louis of Toulouse dressed as a bishop with a robe covered in fleur-de-lys, within a gold scroll-work border with an unidentified coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Venetian nobleman, probably named Alvise

1845), diplomatist: his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2255 (f. 25v); lot purchased for £1 2s by the British Museum, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue. Commission to Alvise Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• Miniature of female personifications of Justice and Peace embracing beneath an angel holding a scroll inscribed 'Iustitia et Pax Osculate Sunt', within a gold scroll-work and scrolling foliate ornate frame with a cameo of a nude woman., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale)

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/11 (f. 27v); 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)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman kneeling in prayer before the Virgin and Child within an ornate border of gold scroll-work with an erased coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale)

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/12 (f. 28v); 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)

• Miniature of a Venetian nobleman, probably called Giacomo or James, being presented with a commission by a doge, before James the Great, Sebastian and a vision of the Crucifixion, within a border of gold scroll-work with an erased coat of arms., Leaf of a Doge's Commission (index commissione dogale) to a Venetian nobleman, probably called Giacomo or Sebastiano

his sale 31 May 1855, lot 2258*/13 (f. 29v); lot purchased for £3 5s 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)

• 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, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

his marginal annotations (e.g. f. 11)Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (inscription '7899', f. 1, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7899): his London sale, 2

• null, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

his marginal annotations (e.g. f. 11)Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (inscription '7899', f. 1, corresponding to his inventory number, see Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7899): his London sale, 2

• 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,

• White vine initial 'M'(odus) in yellow on a blue ground., Various texts including Augistine's De musica (ff. 1-121)

that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. White vine initial Giovanni Aretino (colophons on ff. 121v, 127v) Giovanni Aretino Various authors including Augustine Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• 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)

• Detail of white vine initial 'M'(eretrix) at the beginning of 'Eunuchus'., Comoediae (index comedies)

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 Terence (index Publius Terentius Afer) Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• White vine initial 'I'(n) in gold and colours., Comoediae (index comedies)

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 Terence (index Publius Terentius Afer) 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 white vine initial 'M'(eretrix) at the beginning of 'Eunuchus'., Comoediae (index comedies)

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 Terence (index Publius Terentius Afer) Venice Italy, N. E. (Venice)

• 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,