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    London. British Library, Royal MS 12 E XX
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • Contents: ff. 1r-32r: A commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorism attributed to Aptalio and based on an early
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 6 A VII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • John the Deacon of Rome, c 825-c 880, Deacon of Rome; also known as Johannes Hymonides
    • Worcester (Hereford and Worcester, United Kingdom)
    • The explicit is followed by an alphabet in Caroline minuscule and capital letters.
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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
    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • 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 1915
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Zacharias of Besançon, d c 1156, also known as Zacharias Chrysopolitanus
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • England and Netherlands
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 218
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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
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • The manuscript also contains Book I of the Expositio in Cantica Canticorum (Commentary on the Song of
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho B II
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    ang
    • Alfred, 848/9-899, King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons; also known as 'the Great'
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • English translation of the Regula Pastoralis that King Alfred (b. 849, d. 899) produced in the 890s and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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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 82956
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Sir Thomas Phillips (b. 1792, d. 1872), antiquarian and bibliophile
    • needed for a bishop to perform Mass and carry out ordinations, blessings, and consecrations.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 101
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Origen (b. c. 185, d. 254), Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian
    • produced in a stylistic period of manuscript production at the abbey that has been dated to between 1150 and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3680
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • obitu venerabilis Bedae (Letter on the Death of Bede the Venerable) by Cuthbert, a disciple of Bede, and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16974
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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
    • 339), the Miracula Sancti Trudonis (Miracles of St Trond) by Stephen of Saint-Trond (fl. c. 1050), and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2992
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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
    • Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
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    London. British Library
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    lat, ang
    • England, Winchester and East Anglia
    • St Swithun, also known as the Old Minster (see Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), pp. 103, 200).
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho D VIII
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    London. British Library
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    • Wrdisten, fl 2nd half of the 9th century, Abbot of Landévennec Abbey, also known as Vurdestinus
    • Haiminus of Saint-Vaast, fl 1st half of the 9th century, also known as Haiminus Atrebatensis
    • John the Deacon of Rome, c 825-c 880, Deacon of Rome; also known as Johannes Hymonides
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3095
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and
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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
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    lat, enm
    • Hermann of Reichenau, 1013-1054, also known as Hermannus Contractus
    • 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, Harley MS 3044
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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
    • England and Netherlands
    • Life of St Jerome), attributed to Sebastian of Monte Cassino, as well as the famous story of St Jerome and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius C I
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, ang
    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • 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
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Julius D III
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Alan of Lille (b. c. 1128, d. c. 1202), theologian and poet
    • contains the cartulary of the Sacrist of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans that was written after 1393 and
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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
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    lat, bre
    • Breton scribes, and perhaps also reflects an Irish exemplar.