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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho C V
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • This codex contains part of an Insular Gospel-book which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 70
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    8th century, 760-780
    Language
    German, Latin
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Paul, the Apostle, Saint
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 231
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, 10th century, around 880-890
    Language
    Latin
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    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Braulio of Zaragoza, c 585-c 651, Saint, Bishop of Zaragoza
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 139
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • A manuscript produced at the Abbey of St.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 525
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, 13th/14th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Hugh of Saint-Cher (for postilla)
    • The remaining works are a commentary on the hymnal, where each verse of a hymn alternates with the corresponding
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. B c.4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1501-1503
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Chroniques de France (Paris: Antoine Vérard, [between 1501 and July 1503])The Chroniques of Monstrelet
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 287
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
    • This manuscript contains Anselm of Canterbury’s main work, Cur deus homo, including the Praefatio (p.
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    Cambridge. Trinity Hall Library, MS 2
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Trinity Hall Library
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Ralph of Flaix OSB
    • The text gives instructions on ritual, legal and moral practices which are God's covenant with the Jews
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B28
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1795
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Amsterdam, copied and decorated by Hijman Binger
    • The "Counting of the Omer" is the ritual counting of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, the Feast
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 88
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1167
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • person of Christ, the nature of the Church and its sacraments, the fulfilment of the divine plan.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 117
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1499
    Language
    lat, frm
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    • Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
    • Gerard of York
    • of Ranulf Higden OSB (d. 1364) copied in the last quarter of the fourteenth century.
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 6 B VI
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Ivo of Chartres
    • Bruno of Asti
    • Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
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    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 117(497)
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, End of the 11th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Benedict of Nursia
    • This manuscript contains a martyrology (pp. 1-28), the Rule of Saint Benedict (pp. 28-83) and a homiliary
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    Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 139
    Collection
    Mmmonk
    Library
    Bruges Public Library
    Date
    12de eeuw
    Language
    Latin
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    • Anastasius, the Librarian, approximately 810-approximately 878
    • Ephraem the Syrian
    • Leontius of Neapolis, fl 650, Bishop of Neapolis
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    London. British Library, Yates Thompson MS 17
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160
    • The manuscript contains an addition: f. 1: A fragment from a 12th-century manuscript of the Decretum
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS 170
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb, crh
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    • Isaac son of Mordechai Shishtin?
    • With Hebrew lemmata, usually in the form of the first word of each verse.
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 158
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • This copy of the work "De baptismo" (On Baptism) by the Church father Augustine (d. 430) is significant
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 33
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    dated 1457
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Rubric: Incipit liber soliloquiorum sancti augustini episcopi, primum capitulum, and on gold ground,
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 163
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, around 850
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • This third of a group of originally six volumes containing a copy of St.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 333.2, frame 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1614
    Language
    English
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    • [Estate map of Foxcotte Manor, near Andover, Hampshire, 1614: continuation of the map including Foxcott