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Brotherton Collection17
Medieval Manuscripts13
English Literature2
Herbert Read Collection1

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manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)2
poetry1
fabulous animals1
ethics1
letter1

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Miro, Joan, 1893-19831
Sala, George Augustus1
University of Cambridge1
Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-16941
Dupin, Jacques1
Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)1
Browne, Thomas (1706)1
Cicero, Marcus Tullius1
Greenwood, James1

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Theodoretus Interpretatio in Psalmos

c.11th century

An incomplete eleventh-century copy of the Psalm commentaries of the fifth-century theologian Theodoret.

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Papyrus Fragment

n.d.

Papyrus fragment labelled as 'BC Papyrus 1'. Unknown provenance and no accompanying information.

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De officiis
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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 ...

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[In epistolas canonicas]
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[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...

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Miró

Dupin, Jacques

[1961 or 2]

Added title page has title: Joan Miró, life and work.

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Anastasius
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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 ...

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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.

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Foliate initial (fol. 1r)
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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.

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Foliate initial (fol. 22v)
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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.

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