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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 873
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • The readings for each Gospel have been added in the margins.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16984
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    • Inventione (On Invention) was written by Cicero in his youth; the Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2
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    • [f. 88v is blank].Decoration: See Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 1-157; Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff
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    London. British Library, Burney MS 340
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    • Decoration:Rustic display capitals in green and pink (ff. 1r, 11r), or green and black (ff. 27v, 51v, 60v) for
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 6 C VI
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    • the original volume at an early period, as the 14th-century ownership inscription on f. 1r testifies (see
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian E III
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    • [ff. 1v-2v, 3v, 102v, 108v, 170v, 214v are blank].Decoration:See Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff. 4-102
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 2030
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    • [ff. 1r-2v, 77r-78v, 136v are blank]Decoration: See Sloane MS 2030, ff. 3-30, 99-135; Sloane MS 2030,
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3095
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    • Neumes are also occasionally found throughout the manuscript used as signposts for marginal glosses.f
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3213
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    • The works form the basis for the 12th-century systematic commentary on the two gospels known as Parva
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1772
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    • It includes also several 11th-century additions (mainly charms) related to medicine (see Provenance).
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    London. British Library, Add MS 24145
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    • 1131. ff. 76v-79r: Copies of letters regarding the Third Crusade: a bull of Pope Gregory VIII calling for
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3023
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    • by the Latin Christian poet Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (b. 348, d. after 405): Cathemerinon (Hymns for
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3083
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    • Spaces for rubrics have occasionally been left blank.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3941/2
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    • clothing and ornaments. ff. 259v-265r: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , Book XX, furniture, implements for
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    London. British Library, Add MS 37517
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    • This Psalter was designed for use of a community following the Rule of St Benedict and is the earliest
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 36
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    • missing part of the Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris ) and Royal MS 13 A XXI, ff. 151-192 (see
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    London. British Library, Lansdowne MS 453
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    • 1r-2r: St Jerome, Epistula 53 ad Paulinum (Letter 53: To Paulinus). ff. 2r-4r: St Jerome, prologues for
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2834
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    • It was preserved at a religious house, as both volumes feature markers for liturgical lections and the
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11983
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    • vocatur in evangelio lazarum’.f. 85r: Latin notes from the 14th and 15th centuries, including a request for
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4984
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    • The manuscript was written for a monastic audience, as is indicated by a contemporary marginal inscription