Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Large interlace initial 'E'(tsi) in red, yellow, and brown ink, at the beginning of the text (f. 65r). Initials in red/and or brown highlighted in yellow, some with display script (ff. 71v, 72r, 75r, 94r, 98r, 101r).
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica. Decoration: Large zoomorphic initial 'I'(n) dandis of a bird in red ink on green background, at the beginning of the text. Initials in red or green. Tables and diagrams in red and green ink.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione. Decoration: Decorated initial 'S'(epe) in the shape of a snake in red, brown and yellow at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Decorated initials in yellow and red or in yellow red and black (ff. 29v, 39v, 60r, 61v). Paraphs in red. Visible initials in red of the...
Miscellany of texts on rhetoric, astrology and mathematics.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of 4 parts (ff. 1r-123v; 124r-131v; 132r-135v; 136r-167v). Part 1 is a palimpsest in late Carolingian script and the text and some of the coloured initials are still partly visible (ff. 1r-123v). f. 123 is the end flyleaf of part 1. Contents: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inve...
