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    London. British Library, Burney MS 326
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • England and Netherlands
    • This manuscript contains the Etymologiae (Etymologies), also known as Origenes (Origins), by Isidore
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Appendix LVI
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    lat, xno
    • Worcester (Hereford and Worcester, United Kingdom)
    • England and Netherlands
    • -111; f. 112; f. 113; ff. 114-122) that were most likely produced at different locations in England and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho A VI
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    • England and Netherlands
    • copy of an Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in alternating prose and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Nero A V
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    • England and Netherlands
    • first work is his Bestiarius (Bestiary)−the oldest bestiary in French–which he composed between 1121 and
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 13 D VI
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • The second volume is Royal MS 13 D VII and contains the last books (books 15-20) of the Antiquitates
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2905
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    • Psalm 109 is also lacking. ff. 190v-215v: Canticles and hymns, beginning: 'Confitebor tibi domine quoniam
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 337
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, xno
    • England and Netherlands
    • early 14th century). ff. 32r–53v: Sentences on Scripture, mainly deriving from Origen's Homilies, but also
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1772
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • , the Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 865
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Pseudo-Eusebius of Emesa, Unspecified, also known as 'Eusebius Gallicanus'
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • 18v: Pseudo-Eusebius of Emesa (Eusebius Gallicanus), De corpore et sanguine Christi (On Christ's body and
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 4 E IX
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    lat
    • Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1160), theologian and Bishop of Paris
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • script on the same page, in two or three columns and in alternate lines.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3908
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    lat, fro
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • This manuscript consists mainly of texts written in the 1st half of the 12th century (ff. 1r-100r), and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3009
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Paris (parts A and B)
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1
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    • Gennadius of Massilia (d. c. 496), priest and historian
    • England and Netherlands
    • Sylvestri (The Life and Translation of St Sylvester). ff. 16v-25r: Vita S.
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    London. British Library, Davis80
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    lat
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 1135 onwards Fountains Abbey was subject to the Cistercian abbey of Clairvaux at Ville-sous-la-Ferté and
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 4
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    • The Historia offers a retelling of the Old and New Testaments and was a popular work in the later Middle
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3707
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Jerusalem) by Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1050, d. 1130), abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Bourgueil and
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 13 A XXIII
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    lat
    • Ado of Vienne (d. 874), archbishop of Vienne, focusing on the relationships between Frankish kings and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 15732
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    lat, fre
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 7 C IV
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    lat, ang, enm
    • manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the Bible and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3213
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This manuscript contains a compilation of several commentaries on the Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark