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    London. British Library, Davis80
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • 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, Harley MS 3707
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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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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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, MAR 57
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France, 16th century, 1542-1545
    Language
    French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Note: Date: Written between 1542 (date of Salel's translation of book 2) and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 15732
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, fre
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    • 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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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 137
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France ; Burgundy ; Auxerre?, 9th century, second third
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Origin and date: According to Bischoff 2004: "Auxerre, IX. Jh., 2. Drittel".
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3213
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This manuscript contains a compilation of several commentaries on the Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3008
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This manuscript contains two theological works by St Augustine of Hippo and a work concerning the miracles
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    Cambridge. St Catharine's College Library, MS 17
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. St Catharine's College Library
    Date
    s. xvii ex. Final quarter of the seventeenth century
    Language
    Late Renaissance French
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The Mémoires describe the oscillations of war, and the political intrigues, during La Fronde
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLQ 34 I
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France (northern part?), 11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Incomplete (without commentaries on Adelphoe and Hecyra). - Empty: f. 1r.
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 12 F
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France ; Limoges?, 10th century, second half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294Description (De Meyier 1973): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:108120Also
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, RUH 13
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France, 12th century, second half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • . - A dialogue between Hermes Trismegistus and his student Asclepius, Latin translation from a Greek
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 48
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France ; Auxerre, 9th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • . - (ff. 92r-92v and 95v) Music staves (music notation). - (f. 92v) De duodecim abusivis saeculi (introduction
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2688
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, grc
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    • Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, 65 BC-8 BC, also known as Horace
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The manuscript is a composite miscellany made of five texts of different dates and origins (ff. 1-16;
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    Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 100
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Parts 1, 3 and 4: France, 11th century - Part 2: France, northern part, 11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Content: Parts 1 and 4 contain: (ff. 1-5 and 130) Psalter. Fragments.
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VGG F 3
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France ; Paris, 15th century, second quarter
    Language
    French
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 290399Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294Also
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 39
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France ; Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey?, 11th century, first quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Alexander 1967), with the exception of ff. 18v and 19.
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLQ 63
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France ; Tours?, 8th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Second part of the codex damaged and affected by mould; quires interleaved from f. 48 onwards.
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 28
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France, 15th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294Description (De Meyier 1973): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:108120Also
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 82
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    France ; Paris ; 9th century, first quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Note: Several double leaves added later: ff. 1-2 and 109-116 (12th century
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 220
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1400
    Language
    lat
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    • John of Rupescissa (b. c. 1300, d. c. 1365), Franciscan monk and alchemist
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • >Notes:Written in southern France in a bâtarde bookhand with colored initials and