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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Domitian A II
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, xno
    • England and Netherlands
    • Willelmus cum manu valida pugnatorum in Angliam transnavigavit'. ff. 131r-142r: An untitled Chronicle to
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 3089
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • The Dialogues discuss the miracles and prophecies of holy men in 6th-century Italy, especially those
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian D XI
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Abbey Dore (Hereford and Worcester, United Kingdom)
    • [f. 1v is empty].Decoration:Large and medium initials in green, ochre and red, sometimes with arabesque
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Galba E IV
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, xno
    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Aristotle (attributed to)
    • 204v: Hippocrates (b. c. 460 BC, d. c. 380 BC), De Aere, Aqua et Regionibus (The Book on Water, Air and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius B II
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • It contains a number of emendations, additions and corrections indicating that it may have been a work
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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
    Language
    lat
    • 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 2735
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, grc
    • Auxerre (b. 841, d. 876), monk of the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, theologian, philosopher and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 18031
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • chant 'Memento nostri domine in beneplacito populi tui';, added in the lower margin.f. 44v: A reference to
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16984
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Contents: This 12th-century manuscript consists of two treatises dedicated to the art of rhetoric.
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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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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • 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, Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, enm
    • England and Netherlands
    • contains four parts (ff. 1, 3-69, 70-106, 107-165) that were written separately between the late 11th and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 9046
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • This is a shorthand that was attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), a slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 654
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • It also includes the apocryphal Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca's Epistles to
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2833
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • It contains the Book of Genesis to the Book of Job with prologues that are attributed to St Jerome (b
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    London. British Library, Add MS 22278
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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
    • 122r: St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah, Books 11-18.Decoration:8 large initials with pen-work in red and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII
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    London. British Library
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    lat, enm
    • England and Netherlands
    • the Speculum Ecclesiae (Mirror of the Church) that Gerald of Wales (b. c. 1146, d. c. 1223), author and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 24144
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • features of the fragments suggest that the text may have been written in Northern Italy, but it was cut and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4904
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Decoration:1 large decorated initial 'B'(eatus) in red and blue with foliate pen-work in green decoration
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4751
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Bestiary, beginning: 'Bestiarum vocabulum proprie convenit leonibus' and ending
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3008
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This manuscript contains two theological works by St Augustine of Hippo and a work concerning the miracles