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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1918
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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Leo I, d 461, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 490
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • These include an unusual set of glosses by Master Rufinus (d. before 1195), and glosses deriving from
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 56
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Excidio Troiae Historia (The History of the Fall of Troy), authorship attributed to Dares Phrygius and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 27920
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • At least one quire is lacking between f. 127 and f. 128.Decoration:Large initials with zoomorphic and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 652
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • Augustine, Canterbury, consists of a homiliary with 119 sermons for the period between Holy Saturday and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 5237
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Several parts are missing due to the loss of some leaves and quires.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 17808
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    • , and astrology.
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 125
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    • Decoration:Headings and some explicits in large capital letters (ff. 1r, 3v, 5v, 51r, 52r, 54v, 97v),
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    London. British Library, Add MS 8091
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of John with marginal and interlinear Glossa ordinaria
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian B XI
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol (b.1390, d. 1433), Marguerite de Baux (b. 1394, d. 1469), and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 15350/1
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    Language
    eng
    • England, Winchester and East Anglia
    • consist of Romanesque pink-dyed leather over wooden covers, blind-tooled, with geometric, zoomorphic and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius B III
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    • England and Netherlands
    • The first section (ff. 2-11), containing a Calendar of Saints, computistical tables, and lunar and solar
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian A XV
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    • Contents: ff. 2r-130v: A compilation of canonical texts, false decretals and extracts from papal and
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 153
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    • England and Netherlands
    • This manuscript contains extracts from the Domesday Book, mainly concerning counties in the South-West and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3013
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    • England and Netherlands
    • d. 709): the Epistola ad Ehfridum (Letter to Heahfrith), a letter promoting the schools of Theodore and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2713
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The second part was originally bound together with Burney MS 238 (ff. 13r-29r, f. 37r) and Orléans, Bibliothèque
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3509
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Its contents and evidence of intensive use attest to the study of Classical texts in the Middle Ages,
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2991
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • This manuscript and Harley MS 2992 are companion volumes; Harley MS 2992, which is the continuation of
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 203
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    • Anselm of Canterbury, c 1033-1109, Saint, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury
    • Innocent III, De Officio Missae ( The Office of the Mass ). ff. 26r–28v: Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 37518
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    lat
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • the Gelasian Sacramentary, written in a 7th-century script. f. 117r: Gospel pericopes (John 14.7-14 and