Originally mounted in an album (No. 1084), from which leaf 1 was not illustrated and leaf 2 was missing. Inscribed: Upper left, sketch of a saint (1); Upper right, sketch of the 'Annunciation' (2); Left centre, sketch of the head and shoulders of a man (3); Centre, sketch of section of embroidery (?) and the lower section of a sleeve (4a, 4b); right centre, sketch of two sprigs of flowers (5); lower left, sketch of a head (6); lower centre, sketch of a child (7) (2) This scene is a copy of the central section of 'The Annunciation' by Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi in the Uffizi, Florence. (4b) See Cecchi, pl. CXXV. (6) This head is from the far right figure from Botticelli's 'Madonna of the Magnificat'. (Salvini, 'Complete Library of World Art All the Paintings of Botticelli', pl. I). (7) This is a copy of the Christ Child from Botticelli's painting 'Madonna of the Pomegranate'. (Salvini, pl. 25). Both of these paintings are in the Uffizi, Florence. Inscribed: to left of sketch (1); graphite; Cimabue (Uffizzi) [sic] deep green green covered with white rings and borders of brown; vertical on page ; to right of Virgin in sketch (2); graphite; Simone Memmi / on gold ground angel in gold richly embroidered / shadows in ultramarine / Virgin in dark blue and dark / lake-blue lined with black / drapery behind her gold / and red lead, lined with / brown black; to right of sketch (3); graphite; red, white, red lined with black, gold pink; reading from top to bottom, all in reference to costume; to right of sketch (5); graphite; White and gold daisies, alternating, on a / crimson gown - deep green leaves - / Boticelli's [sic] Venus; to right of sketch (6); graphite; Boticelli [sic]