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De officiis
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
[12th century]
Ff. 39-41 were written by a later, possibly 14th-century, hand. Annotations throughout the manuscript are written in three different hands. Decoration: a 2-line initial in red begins the first book ...
[In epistolas canonicas]
Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
[ca. 1100-1150]
Quires numbered at the end. Decoration: 7 large initials on decorated blue, or blue and green grounds, outlined and touched with red. Written in Continental Caroline Minuscule. Principal content...
Anastasius
c13th century
Qaestiones et Responsiones. A copy of the questions and responses relating to pastoral theology attributed to the seventh-century monk Anastasius of Sinai, but probably compiled in the ninth or tenth ...
Theodoretus Interpretatio in Psalmos
c.11th century
An incomplete eleventh-century copy of the Psalm commentaries of the fifth-century theologian Theodoret.
Lacrymae Cantabrigienses in obitum serenissimae Reginae Mariae
Browne, Thomas (1706); University of Cambridge
1694/5
Edited by Thomas Browne, Master of Pembroke and Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, whose name appears on A2r.
Foliate initial (fol. 1r)
[ca. 1100-1150]
9-line initial 'I' composed of foliage, in red outline, decorated with a light blue strip of paint.
Foliate initial (fol. 22v)
[ca. 1100-1150]
9-line initial 'P' composed of foliage, in black outline, touched in red, on a blue and green background.
Foliate initial (fol. 42r)
[ca. 1100-1150]
5-line initial 'S' composed of foliage, in black outline, touched in red, on a blue and green background.
Foliate initial (fol. 54r)
[ca. 1100-1150]
6-line initial 'Q' composed of foliage, in red outline, on a blue and green background.
Foliate initial (fol. 77v)
[ca. 1100-1150]
5-line initial 'S' composed of foliage, in black outline, touched in red, on a blue and green background.