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    London. British Library, Add MS 15603
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Copied by the same scribe as Add MS 10943, also from the abbey of Notre-Dame de La Charité (according
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius E IV
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Abbo of Fleury, c 945-1004, Saint, Abbot of Ramsey Abbey and Fleury Abbey
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Roman numerals and highlighted letters in red.
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 7 E VI
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • England and Netherlands
    • ) contains a martyrology with local addition for the Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3033
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • Decoration:Large initials in brown ink, some with red and/or yellow or silver.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 24143
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Cum valde occulta sint divina judicia'; the end is damaged and the text partially erased, ending with
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • period.Contents: ff. 4r-37v: an illustrated copy of Prudentius's Psychomachia with titles for the illustrations and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius A XV
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • England and Netherlands
    • originally separate items, now bound together.Contents:ff. 1r-173v: A letterbook including letters by Alcuin and
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 1621
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • An antidotarium and various medical recipes, with some prayers and texts on musical theory.
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 6 B VIII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Alcuin's epistle to Pope Leo III (ff. 27v-28v) and the first part of his De fide sancte et individue
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3534
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, 65 BC-8 BC, also known as Horace
    • complete works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (b. 65 BC, d. 8) with interlinear and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 658
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • contains a miscellany of study aids for the Bible, bound together with a collection of scientific, poetic and
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 241
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • collection of three of the works that are commonly referred to by the title De Trinitate (On the Trinity) and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 261
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • cathedral priory of St Andrew in Rochester, but was certainly at the priory in the 13th or 14th century and
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 821
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • and instructions for magical amulets.
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 217
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • This volume preserves a large number of St Cyprian (b. c. 200 d. c. 258)'s Epistulae (Letters) and other
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1700
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This manuscript contains the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament with prologues and commentary
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3859
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, wel
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • ending: 'frequentior usus invenit qua[m] vet[us] doctrina monstraverat'. ff. 40v-41r: Astrological and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16961
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Smaragdus of St-Mihiel, (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), abbot and writer
    • Two other leaves survive in Add MS 16962, f. 1 and f. 211 (see Bischoff, Katalog ,I (1998); p. 75 (no
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3030
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Origen (b. c. 185, d. 254), Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • consists of two commentaries on the Pauline epistles written respectively by Origen (b. c. 185, d. c. 254) and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Nero C VII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, enm
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    • England and Netherlands
    • abbey of Peterborough.ff. 216r-223v: A short annalistic chronicle.ff. 224r-225v: Rental of Nailsbourne and