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    London. British Library, Royal MS 4 D II
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11943
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Decoration:A decorated initial 'C'(um) in red and green with interlace decoration and a rubric in red
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2831
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • It is one of the surviving witnesses of the early collaboration between Insular and Continental scribes
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    London. British Library, Burney MS 17
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    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, Burney MS 28
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • This 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2637
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Smaragdus of St-Mihiel, (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), abbot and writer
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • manuscript consists of four parts written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the chants and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 549
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Decoration:Two zoomorphic initials, outlined in black, with some gold, red, blue and green on a light-brown
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4804/1
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, grc
    • Basil of Caesarea, 329-379, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea; also known as 'the Great'
    • the first volume of two separate volumes with continuous foliation: Harley MS 4804/1 (ff. 1-167v), and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius E I
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Anselm of Canterbury, c 1033-1109, Saint, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury
    • Anselm of Canterbury, Epistola De sacrificio Azymi et Fermentati (Letter on the Sacrifice of Unleavened and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 234
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This 12th-century French manuscript contains the Gospel of John with commentary by Church Fathers and
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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, Add MS 15350
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    ang, lat
    • England, Winchester and East Anglia
    • collection of charters pertaining to the cathedral priory of Winchester (Old Minster) written in Latin and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3250
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Contents:ff. 1r-193r: Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, with a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v) and prologue
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian D XI
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Abbey Dore (Hereford and Worcester, United Kingdom)
    • 12th-century manuscript contains works by Lawrence of Durham (b. c. 1110, d. 1154), poet, hagiographer, and
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 2839
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • England and Netherlands
    • This 11th-century manuscript contains a collection of didactical texts on practical and theoretical medicine
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    London. British Library, Add MS 38819
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Decoration:Large 'KL' initials in red, green, blue and yellow with penwork decoration (ff. 1r-6v).
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4772
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Maître de l’Entrée (de François I), Lyon, and a collaborator
    • This artist’s work is marked by a great variety of ornamental motifs, and zoomorphic, hybrid and anthropomorphic
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1334
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of Josephus on the Jewish wars and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A XVII
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • This composite manuscript contains two parts that were produced at separate locations in England and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 38818
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • England and Netherlands
    • Vegetius Renatus, De re militari ;Justinian, Institutiones (extracts). ff. 136-190: Indices of words and