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    London. British Library, Add MS 11983
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the younger, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
    • probably the Loire region
    • This manuscript from c. 1100 contains a collection of works by and related to Seneca the Younger (b.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 17808
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Ascelin of Augsburg, fl 1st quarter of the 11th century
    • The manuscript is an important witness to the fact that Arabic science had already permeated Western
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    London. British Library, Add MS 37517
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • the archbishop of Canterbury
    • This manuscript, known as the 'Bosworth Psalter', contains the Roman version of Psalms, monastic canticles
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4978
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • imperfect. ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Sermo de persecutione christianorum (Sermon on the
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3020
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    London. British Library
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Paul the Deacon of Naples, fl 9th century
    • Tempore illo quidan senator nomine Eleusius, amicus Maximiani imperatoris'. ff. 113r-132r: Paul the Deacon
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    London. British Library, Add MS 15601
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Lupus of Ferrières, c 805-c 862, Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul, Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
    • probably the Loire region
    • This manuscript contains the Consolatio Philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy) of Boethius (b.
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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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    • Constantine, the African, approximately 1020-1087, translator
    • This manuscript contains the medical treatise Pantegni (The Book of Medical Arts) by Constantine the
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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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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Pliny, the Elder
    • Bede, the Venerable, pseudo
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian D II
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • John, the Deacon of Rome, approximately 824-approximately 882
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
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    London. British Library, Burney MS 216
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    • Constantine, the African, approximately 1020-1087, translator
    • Contents: ff. 5r-88v: Paulus Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans), imperfect
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 15 A XVI
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Martin the Irishman, 819-875, also known as Martin of Laon
    • Aldhelm (d. 709), bishop of Sherborne, Enigmata (Riddles), imperfect . f. 73v: An extract from Bede the
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 15 B XIX
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    London. British Library
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Lupus of Ferrières, c 805-c 862, Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul, Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
    • A composite manuscript of three separate sections not bound together before the 17th century:Contents
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 633
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    • Harley, Edward, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the
    • This manuscript contains the Liber pontificalis (the Book of the Popes), a collection of biographies
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    London. British Library, Add MS 24143
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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on the Book of Job) (imperfect),
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11878
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • This manuscript was produced in Luxeuil and contains book 23 and the first part of book 24 of Gregory
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 56
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Pseudo-Alexander the Great,, Unspecified
    • (The History of the Fall of Troy), authorship attributed to Dares Phrygius and translation to Cornelius
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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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    • Harley, Edward, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the
    • probably the Loire region
    • This volume is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, and has suffered more extensive water damage.Contents
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    London. British Library, Add MS 26760
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Contents: ff. 1r-187r: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on Job), books 23 to 35.
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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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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), Moralia in Iob (Commentary on Job), part 1, books 1-5, beginning with the
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 658
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Richard of Saint-Victor, d 1173, Prior of the Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris
    • probably the Loire region
    • It includes the Gospel of St John with glosses, the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi (A Compendium