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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2886
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Decoration:Three pen drawings of two soldiers killing a man and a dragon with their spears (f. 27v),
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 59
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of Josephus on the Jewish Wars and
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2951
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    • This manuscript is the unique witness of the poems of Robert Partes (fl. c 1170), and also includes the
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    London. British Library, Burney MS 317
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • The parchment has been severely damaged in some parts and restored afterwards.
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • England, Winchester and East Anglia
    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    London. British Library, Lansdowne MS 453
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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
    • the Book of Genesis to the Book of Psalms) with prologues attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 40000
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    ang, lat
    • France, but, as is indicated by Old English glosses, was at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 173
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    lat
    • Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A collection of excerpts from works by Church Fathers and theologians. ff. 22r-
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 5041
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    • It was produced in the North East of France and written in a Merovingian cursive minuscule (ff. 1r-8r
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4773
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    • Maître de l’Entrée (de François I), Lyon, and a collaborator
    • artist, who was influenced by an Italian style, decorated the initials of the Old Testament prefaces and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 21995
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    lat
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Passionary of Galen), attributed to Claudius Galenus (b. 129, d. c. 200/c. 216), Greek physician, surgeon and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho C V
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    lat
    • Contents:ff. 1r–64v: The Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (imperfect).
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1916
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    lat
    • This 12th-century manuscript contains an incomplete version of the commentary on Gospel of St John and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11283
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Second-Family' that brings in new materials by following a system of classification into beasts, birds and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 35167
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • Typically associated with Anselm of Laon, the Glossa Ordinaria (marginal and interlinear) was a commentary
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2685
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    lat
    • 480, d. 524), Consolatio philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy), Book 1-5, including contemporary and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius D IX
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    lat
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The first part (ff. 1-5) was produced in England in the second half of the 13th century and contains
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    London. British Library, Lansdowne MS 420
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    • numerous images of fish and other zoomorphic and hybrid figures, some of which may have been influenced
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra D I
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    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    London. British Library, Add MS 41997
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    lat
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The Apologia is made up of three sermones (speeches) discussing the cleanliness, composition, and nature