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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius A XV
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • originally separate items, now bound together.Contents:ff. 1r-173v: A letterbook including letters by Alcuin and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3023
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Prudentius (b. 348, d. after 405): Cathemerinon (Hymns for the Day), Peristephanon (Crowns of the Martyrs), and
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2831
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • This manuscript is thought to date from before Alcuin's arrival at the abbey of Marmoutiers (or Saint-Martin
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2951
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • This manuscript is the unique witness of the poems of Robert Partes (fl. c 1170), and also includes the
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 7 D II
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • beginning with an extract of the prologue of Origen's commentary on the Canticle of Canticles related to
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    London. British Library, Add MS 33241
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 6 B VIII
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Alcuin's epistle to Pope Leo III (ff. 27v-28v) and the first part of his De fide sancte et individue
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    London. British Library, Add MS 14252
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    enm, lat, xno
    • Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 213
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Origen (b. c. 185, d. 254), Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • John Cassian (b. c. 360, d. c. 435), monk and theologian
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 146
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    enm, lat, xno
    • England and Netherlands
    • This manuscript with medical and botanical texts was largely written in the 13th century, but also include
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    London. British Library, Burney MS 17
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • It contains the Book of Proverbs and the Book of Ecclesiastes with marginal and interlinear glosses.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 17392
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Contents: ff. 1r-229v: Psalter, with interlinear and marginal glosses embedding extracts from the Parva
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4978
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • History of the English People), books 1-5, a 12th-century quire has been inserted (ff. 68-76) in order to
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3213
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • 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, Royal MS 15 B XII
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • This manuscript consists of Juvenal's Saturae (Satires) with interlinear and marginal glosses (ff. 3r
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 13 D VII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • According to Thomson, it was written by scribe A working at St Albans at that time.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 46487
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    eng, lat, ang
    • abbot of Sherborne and his privileges. ff. 3r-4r: King Æthelred's epistle to Wulfsige, bishop of Sherborne
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 3776
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • manuscript contains the first six books of St Jerome's (b. 347, d. 420) commentaries on the Book of Jeremiah and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A VIII
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England, Winchester and East Anglia
    • England and Netherlands
    • obituary calendar from the Premonstratensian abbey at Beauchief, compiled between the mid-13th century and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho B II
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    ang
    • Alfred, 848/9-899, King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons; also known as 'the Great'
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Pastoral Care) by Pope Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), which once included a preface addressed to