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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2790
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • to the Four Gospels. ff. 8v-9v: Praefatio Matthei (Preface to the Gospel of St Matthew). ff. 10r-11r
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11283
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    • 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 15732
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how Brutus, a descendant of Aeneas, travelled to
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    London. British Library, Add MS 36668
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • This manuscript is entirely dedicated to the Commentary on Daniel by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420).
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 46
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    • England and Netherlands
    • ff. 1r-v: Capitula referring to quires and folios of the manuscript. ff. 3r-4r: Preface on the Gospels
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 4 D II
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    • England and Netherlands
    • This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 15602
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The Institutions of the Canons of Aachen), the resolutions of the Council of Aachen of 816 pertaining to
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 2 E XIII
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Psalms 1 to Psalms 50, beginning: 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum' Ending: 'dignum tibi
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 56
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    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • ). ff. 64r-75r: De Excidio Troiae Historia (The History of the Fall of Troy), authorship attributed to
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3845
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    London. British Library
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    • France, perhaps in Lyon, during the Carolingian reform in the first half of the 9th century, according to
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4772
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Maître de l’Entrée (de François I), Lyon, and a collaborator
    • exemplar(s) to an authoritative biblical work from the Archdiocese of Lyon and perhaps were located
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 2
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    ang, lat
    • Astle, Thomas, b 1735 d 1803, archivist and collector of books and manuscripts
    • Spelman, Henry, 1563/4-1641, historian and antiquary
    • England, Winchester and East Anglia
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    London. British Library, Add MS 19961
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    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Theodoret (b. 393, d. 458), that were compiled by Cassiodorus (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), and, under his
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    London. British Library, Add MS 4899
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    lat
    • Hoby, Edward, 1560-1617, politician and diplomat
    • England and Netherlands
    • selection of the Sermones (Sermons) by Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), abbot of Clairvaux and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A XII
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Abbo of Fleury, c 945-1004, Saint, Abbot of Ramsey Abbey and Fleury Abbey
    • England and Netherlands
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 633
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    • 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
    • D'Ewes, Simonds, 18 Dec 1602-18 Apr 1650, first baronet, diarist and antiquary
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    London. British Library, Burney MS 326
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    • England and Netherlands
    • This is an encyclopedic work that discusses the origin of words related to the liberal arts and a vast
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2905
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    • iratus es mihi'.Decoration: The decoration is similar to Arundel MS 157 containing a Psalter and Hours
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 3055
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    lat
    • Sir Thomas Phillips (b. 1792, d. 1872), antiquarian and bibliophile
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • contains De vita Caesarum (The Twelve Caesars) by the Roman historian Suetonius (b.c. 69 , d. c. 122) and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 24914
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    lat
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • archbishop of Tours, and Marbod (b. c. 1035, d. 1123), archdeacon at Angers and Bishop of Rennes.