There are not many abbreviations in this page:

Suspensions
	This stands for -bus, the dative and ablative plural ending of some nouns You see it here in carnibus, 'in the flesh' (plural).
	This is the familiar line over a letter to indicate that an m or n has been left out. Here the word is enim.
....	The scribe also uses this mark instead of the familiar nomen sacrum abbreviation for deum.
	Here it covers an extra letter: the ending is -mini in miseremini, 'have mercy'. The full word can be seen in the previous line.

Contractions :
	The letter q with a stroke through the descender stands for quod.
	The letters ipe with a line over the top stands for ipse, 'the same' .

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