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    London. British Library, Royal MS 15 A XVI
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, ang
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 12157
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    IXe siècle (première moitié)
    Language
    latin
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    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    London. British Library, Add MS 23944
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • This 9th-century manuscript contains De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia ad Valerium (On Marriage and Lust to
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 124
    Collection
    Europeana Regia
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    environ 810-820
    Language
    latin
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    • Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 17901
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    XIe siècle (milieu)
    Language
    latin
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    • .-17 or 18 A.D.
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 56
    Collection
    Mmmonk
    Library
    Bruges Public Library
    Date
    12de - 13de eeuw; Ff: 2v-100v: c. 1201-c. 1225; ff. 101r-126v: c. 1176-c. 1200; ff. 127r-189r: c. 1201-c. 1225 (cf. Janzen 2019)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Padua or Venice
    • or Flanders
    • Flanders, Ghent or Malines?
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 1621
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • The bottom half of the page is lost, with a loss of text from Psalms 18:8-10.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 21164
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • This 10th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro
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    London. British Library, Add MS 17808
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • The manuscript is an important witness to the fact that Arabic science had already permeated Western
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 6862
    Collection
    Europeana Regia
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    11e -10e siècle
    Language
    latin
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    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    Durham. Cathedral Library, MS. A.IV.10
    Collection
    Durham University and Cathedral Library
    Library
    Durham. Cathedral Library
    Date
    late 12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • Gospel of Matthew, glossed, written in Northern France in the late 12th century; presented to Durham
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    Durham. Cathedral Library, MS. A.III.16
    Collection
    Durham University and Cathedral Library
    Library
    Durham. Cathedral Library
    Date
    later 12th century, late 12th century, added late 12th or early 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • Prologue to Ecclesiasticus
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3534
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • It represents one of the 82 surviving copies of Horace’s Satires from the 12th century (Reynolds, ‘Glossing
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3253
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • This late 12th or early 13th-century manuscript contains the Commentary on the Pauline Epistles of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 126
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    740–760
    Language
    Latin
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 628
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • Its style of decoration (Channel style) indicates that it was produced in England or France.
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 13388
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    IXe siècle (milieu)
    Language
    latin
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    Durham. University Library, Elliott MS 5
    Collection
    Durham University and Cathedral Library
    Library
    Durham. University Library
    Date
    mid 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • Single leaf from a French book of hours, written mid 15th century.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 549
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • Numerous initials in red or blue, occasionally with a reserved line and penwork decoration in the same
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2832
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • Lacking folios have been supplemented in the 17th century (ff. 6-7; 10-11).Contents: ff. 3r-4r: Fragment from