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    London. British Library, Royal MS 5 E XI
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    • Aldhelm of Sherborne, c 639-709, Saint, Bishop of Sherborne
    • 60 chapters extolling virginity, composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709).
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius C I
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    • Abbo of Fleury
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Eratosthenes of Cyrene, c 276 BC-c 194 BC
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A XIV
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    • Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
    • Troper and a Proser, possibly made at Worcester in the late 12th century. ff. 93r-130r: Ælfric's Lives of
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3667
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    • Abbo of Fleury
    • Byrhtferth of Ramsey
    • This manuscript contains part of a computus , probably compiled by Byrhtferth of Ramsey (b. c.970, d.
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Faustina A V
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    • Simeon of Durham OSB
    • Richard Rolle of Hampole (attrib.)
    • Durham (see Gullick, ‘The Two Earliest Manuscripts’ (1996), p. 119 n. 34).
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C III
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    • Peter of Poitiers
    • Contents:f. 1: Cottonian frontispiece. f. 3r: early modern endleaf.f. 4r: early modern table of contents
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 7 C IV
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    • Defensor of Ligugé
    • This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
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    • extant from England in the period between 975 and 1075 (see Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho B II
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    • Alfred, King of England, 849-899
    • This manuscript from the 2nd half of the 10th or early 11th century was written in Old English, most
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius C IX
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    • Willliam of Malmesbury (collected by)
    • Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
    • (Deeds of the Kings of England) by William of Malmesbury (b. c. 1090, d. 1142), historian, man of letters
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    London. British Library, Add MS 15350
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    • 1447-1454), see Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England (1996), p. 494 (n. 1).
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 2
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    • Astle, Thomas, b 1735 d 1803, archivist and collector of books and manuscripts
    • Spelman, Henry, Unspecified, of Stowe MS 1059
    • The Psalter was glossed in Old English in the second half of the 11th century.
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • contains two main parts, joined in the early modern period.Contents: ff. 4r-37v: an illustrated copy of
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3013
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    • Aldhelm of Sherborne, c 639-709, Saint, Bishop of Sherborne
    • Ehfridum (Letter to Heahfrith), a letter promoting the schools of Theodore and Adrian of Canterbury;
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A XII
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    • Abbo of Fleury
    • Hildebert of Lavardin
    • Serlo of Bayeux
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    London. British Library, Add MS 40000
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    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • of the monastery.
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 155
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    • Hadley, Unspecified, Domnus W, Subprior of Christ Church, Canterbury
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, pseudo
    • In the mid-12th century, the text of some of the psalms and canticles was altered to the Gallican version
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho A VI
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    • Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167
    • which may have been bound together in the 17th century.Contents: ff. 1r-129v: the only surviving copy of
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 60
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    • and prayers added by a 12th-century hand (probably a Norman scribe, see Gullick, ‘Manuscrits et copistes
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius A III
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    • Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
    • Æthelwold of Winchester, c 908-984, Saint, Bishop of Winchester
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636