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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2204
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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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    • This 12th-century manuscript originates from the Benedictine abbey of St Mary in Reading.
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 4
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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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    • It also includes excerpts from the Chronica de tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum (The Chronicle
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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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    lat
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    • It is a fragment from a larger volume.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 18032
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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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    • the dedication of a church 'Altissime Iesu Christe qui dignatus es munda'. ff. 248r-250v: Excerpts from
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2951/1
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • The covers consist of a folded bifolium from a 14th-century manuscript of the Gospel of St John; the
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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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    lat
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    • Isidorus de consanguinitate sic loquitur, cuius series vii gradibus dirimetur hoc modo', including canons from
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 1621
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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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    • The bottom half of the page is lost, with a loss of text from Psalms 18:8-10.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 8091
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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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    • The Gloss for the Gospel of John, surviving in more than two hundred European manuscripts from the 12
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 7 F VI
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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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    • Ambrosiaster, beginning: 'Dignum est fratres et congruum ut gaudia nostra'; followed by an extract from
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 475
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, fro, xno
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    • Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis. ff. 125r-231v: Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11440
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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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    • Decretals of Burchard), Book 19, De penitentia Sive Medicus or Corrector Burchardi , followed by excerpts from
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16918
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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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    • This manuscript was originally bound together with Add MS 16979, containing a necrology from the Benedictine
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 15 A XVI
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, ang
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    • 59v-73v: Aldhelm (d. 709), bishop of Sherborne, Enigmata (Riddles), imperfect . f. 73v: An extract from
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 157
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, xno
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    • effigiei vultus de Dominici que Rome habita Veronica nuncupatur’. ff. 3r-12v: Two-panel pages with scenes from
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    London. British Library, Add MS 15732
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, fre
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    • Geoffrey claims to have translated the Historia from an old British book he had received from Walter,
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Nero C 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
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    • Amphibali. ff. 10r-28v: Vita Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis. ff. 29r-79v: A Passionale (Lives of Saints) from
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 10
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, frm
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    • Geoffrey claims to have translated the Historia from an old British book he had received from Walter,
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16961
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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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    • The commentary was written by Smaragdus (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), a monk from the Benedictine abbey of
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    London. British Library, Yates Thompson MS 17
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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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    • prologue (ff. 2r-4r): 'Cupientes aliquid de penuria ac tenuitate nostra'. ff. 1v; 142v-143v: A fragment from
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 5 B XV
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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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    • It also includes readings from the miracles of St Liudhard (d. c. 603), bishop and chaplain to Queen