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    London. British Library, Add MS 10084
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • or Flanders
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Appendix LVI
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    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16414
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • Contents: ff. 1r-v: Pseudo-Castor of Apt, Epistula ad Cassianum (Epistle to Cassian). ff. 2r-47r: John
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2666
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    • Stratagems) by Sextus Iulius Frontinus (b. c. 30, d. 104), a collection of examples of military stratagems from
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2805
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Contents: ff. 1r-237v: Bible , containing most of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalm 142), including
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1916
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    • Large initials in blue, purple, or red, one with penwork decoration in another colour (f. 136v).
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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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    • Contents:ff. 1r-v: A fragment from a 13th-century sacramentary, which includes a mass for the Finding
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    London. British Library, Add MS 9046
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    • 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, Add MS 27920
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • or Hildesheim, Benedictine abbey (?)
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2685
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    • Decoration:Titles in display capitals and initials coloured in red or purple.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 31031
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • 604), Moralia in Iob (Commentary on Job), part 1, books 1-5, beginning with the dedicatory epistle to
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    London. British Library, Add MS 18338
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • Decoration:Large and small initials in brown or red ink, one with a cross (f. 83r) and one with a flower
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    London. British Library, Add MS 22719
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • Numerous small initials in red, green or blue, some with pen-work decoration; rubrics in red.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 47678
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    • This manuscript, written at Tours in the early 9th century, is one of the earliest and best witnesses to
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 2
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    London. British Library
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    • This Psalter might be related to fragments/binding strips of a glossed Psalter in Cambridge, Pembroke
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 10 A XIII
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    • Initials in red, blue or green. Rubrics in red.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 24143
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    • Decoration:Decorated initials in brown, some with geometrical, zoomorphic or floral motifs, at the beginning
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius E I
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    • 92r–97v: Explanatio Visionum Danielis, a commentary on Prophetia Danielis (attributed in the rubric to
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 6 A VII
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • erga (sic) hunc dei civem hunc sibi presulem hunc sibi petit doctorem [...]', added in the late 11th or
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius A V
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    • quarter of the 13th century. ff. 2r-45r : Pseudo-John of Peterborough (fl. 1369), Peterborough Chronicle from