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    Bruges. Bibliothèque publique, Ms. 112
    Collection
    Mmmonk
    Library
    Bruges Public Library
    Date
    13de eeuw
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gennadius of Massilia (d. c. 496), priest and historian
    • Each new text is introduced by an initial, which is decorated in red and blue with pen.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 83
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 14th/beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Decoration: 4-line gilded initial on a blue and pink ground on folio 5r
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Tanner 67
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1638
    Language
    English
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    • England and Netherlands
    • behalf of the "Imbrederers working in their own homes" who had for many years covered Bibles, Testaments and
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 250
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, last quarter of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Collection of Astronomical-computistical tables and charts with high-quality pen drawings of the constellations
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 7281
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    XVe s.
    Language
    latin
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    • Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, fl 813-861, astronomer; also known as Alfraganus
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 8881
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1393
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1160), theologian and Bishop of Paris
    • [Vienna, copied and decorated by Meshullam Zimmel of Polna]
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 19
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1199
    Language
    lat
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    • in this manuscript was copied at Christ Church, Canterbury in around 1130 by a scribe whose hand has also
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 1296
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    ca. 1490]
    Language
    Latin
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    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 49
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1200 - 1299
    Language
    lat
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    • Another Bible (Oxford, Merton College MS 235) is also related in the style of its illumination and was
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 22.12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1547
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Maître de l’Entrée (de François I), Lyon, and a collaborator
    • Each volume is bound and gauffered in a different pattern of interlacing with open, floral tools; interlacing
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. XII
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers)
    Date
    9th century, 9th and 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Walahfrid Strabo, (b. c. 808, d. 849), monk and theologian
    • Leo I, d 461, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 39
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    11th century, 1080-1096
    Language
    Latin
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    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • This manuscript is a copy of Augustine’s De Genesi ad literam; it is written in a single-column and undecorated
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    Lisbonne. Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, INC. 1443
    Collection
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    Library
    Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
    Date
    ca. 1492]
    Language
    Italian
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    • Petrus Hispanus (b. c. 1220, d. c. 1277), philosopher and later Pope John XXI(?)
    • Mantua and Florence
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4370
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1371
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • Ulrich and Afra]
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2637
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • 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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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 156
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, end
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Text and decorative border and initial.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: AL / YZ 3[1]
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1729
    Language
    English, Latin
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    • Woodward, including descriptions of experiments to determine their origin and nature, their medicinal
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 6
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    lat
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    • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
    • Alan of Lille (b. c. 1128, d. c. 1202), theologian and poet
    • Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1160), theologian and Bishop of Paris
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 125
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 14th century (around 1320?), notes from the 14th-15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The text is annotated with marginal and interlinear glosses by various contemporaneous and Italian hands
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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 and Netherlands
    • Decoration:Two zoomorphic initials, outlined in black, with some gold, red, blue and green on a light-brown