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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2700
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Parts of the original text are missing and have been supplemented by an anonymous 15th-century scribe
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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
    • 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, Royal MS 13 D VI
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Decoration: The style of the decoration is related to the St Albans Psalter (see Kauffman, Romanesque
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Nero A VII
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    lat, sga
    • Anselm of Canterbury, c 1033-1109, Saint, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury
    • England and Netherlands
    • was produced in England, probably at Rochester, or Normandy in the last quarter of the 11th century and
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 1580
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • Alan of Lille (b. c. 1128, d. c. 1202), theologian and poet
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
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    London. British Library, Add MS 29972
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • It was produced in the 1st quarter of the 8th century, and written in a type of Merovingian minuscule
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1246
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • collection of 63 homilies mainly excerpted from the commentaries on the Four Gospels by the Church Fathers and
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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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    lat
    • idoneum, gratum, salubre'. f. 184v: A fragment of a letter from Pope Clement IV (b. c 1195, d. 1268), to
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho A VI
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    ang, lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • copy of an Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in alternating prose and
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    London. British Library, Davis80
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The manuscript, according to Julian Harrison (unpublished note, see 'Davis80', Database of Bookbindings
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 377
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr (attributed to)
    • This manuscript contains a collection of astrological treatises, accompanied by tables and diagrams.
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 2030
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Aristotle (attributed to)
    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 15 A XVI
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    London. British Library
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    lat, ang
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • England and Netherlands
    • Numerous Latin glosses and two Old English glosses (ff. 73, 76v).
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    London. British Library, Add MS 15600
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • (Satires) by the Roman poet Decimus Junius Juvenal (b. c. 50, d. after 127), together with marginal and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2992
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and
    • Harley, Edward, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron
    • Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3250
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Contents:ff. 1r-193r: Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, with a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v) and prologue
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho E XIII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, bre
    • The manuscript was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731 and the leaves are illegible in some
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian A XV
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Contents: ff. 2r-130v: A compilation of canonical texts, false decretals and extracts from papal and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3241
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and
    • Harley, Edward, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron
    • Covel, John, 1638-1722, traveller, botanist and college head
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius C IX
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, xno, eng, ang, enm
    • Worcester (Hereford and Worcester, United Kingdom)
    • England and Netherlands
    • The manuscript ends with a section (ff. 204-209) of indices, notes and letters that were added to the