These initials, the first filled with the bust of a cardinal and the third with the bust of a bearded man, would have marked secondary textual divisions in a glossed copy of a legal text such as Gratian's Decretum or the Decretals of Gregory IX. This type of initial decoration is commonly found in legal manuscripts produced in Bologna in the first decades of the fourteenth century. Founded in... Three initial Qs Script: Littera bononiensis
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