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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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    • 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, Harley MS 1915
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • atque Locorum de Actibus Apostolorum (The Names of the Regions and Places in the Book of Acts) , a geographical
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 13 A XI
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • a diagram on the epacts allowing to find the date in the lunar calendar from the solar calendar; it is
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 56
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    London. British Library
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    • Pseudo-Alexander the Great,, Unspecified
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • The manuscript contains a number of additions:ff. 186r: various verses and notes in English in a 16th-century
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4984
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Harley, Edward, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • on f. 64r that describes reading the life of St Martin of Tours in 'our monastery' ('usque ad hoc capitulum
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    London. British Library, Add MS 21164
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 15 A XVI
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    London. British Library
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Martin the Irishman, 819-875, also known as Martin of Laon
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 4 D II
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Decoration:Two foliate initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of the prologue to St Mark and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C III
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    London. British Library
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    lat, ang, eng, xno, grc
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Genealogia Christi , copied in England in the 1st quarter of the 13th century. ff. 11r-85v: illustrated
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 628
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    lat
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Decoration: 3 large initials marking the threefold division of the Book of Psalms (Psalms 1, 51, and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3253
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    lat
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • This late 12th or early 13th-century manuscript contains the Commentary on the Pauline Epistles of the
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 549
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 2839
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    London. British Library
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    lat, xno
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • It was disseminated in England in the 11th century, where it was partially translated and adapted into
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11853
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    • The text has been written in two columns, which was the standard layout for Gilbert’s Glosses from about
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 5041
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    lat
    • It was produced in the North East of France and written in a Merovingian cursive minuscule (ff. 1r-8r
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2832
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    • It was produced in Northern France at the very end of the 9th century.This volume was originally bound
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    London. British Library, Add MS 23944
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    • The manuscript originates from France, but was in England by the late 11th century, when it served as
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16984
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • The De Inventione (On Invention) was written by Cicero in his youth; the Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 10
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    • It soon became popular and was widely disseminated in England, the Low Countries and Northern France,
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    London. British Library, Add MS 15304
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    • facere me cogis'. ff. 5r-7r: St Jerome, Prologus quattuor evangelium ex commentario Hieronymi in Matthei