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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1334
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • the work known as Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of
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    London. British Library, Burney MS 29
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    London. British Library
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    • Contents: ff. 1r-110r: Evangelium Secundum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), with the Glossa Ordinaria (
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    London. British Library, Add MS 26761
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • This 12th-century manuscript contains part of the commentary on the Gospel of Matthew by the Church Father
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2905
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • with the zodiac signs. ff. 7r-190v: Psalms, imperfect at the beginning, Psalm 1 and the first verses of
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3771
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione (Chronology or tract on the duration of
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11850
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • Alexandrinus'. ff. 6v-9r: Prologus et Capitula Evangelii Secundum Mattheum; prologue to the Gospel of
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3845
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Contents: This manuscript consists of the Collectio Dacheriana, a collection of canon law created in
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2627
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • This is a 12th-century collection of works by the Alexandrian poet Claudianus Claudius (d. after 404)
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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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    London. British Library
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    • Former covers of Add MS 15350, removed in 1961, now kept separately.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2805
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Contents: ff. 1r-237v: Bible , containing most of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalm 142), including
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 628
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Its style of decoration (Channel style) indicates that it was produced in England or France.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1712
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    London. British Library
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    • Contents:This manuscript consists of Petrus Comestor's sermons (ff. 17r-233v), and was produced at the
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A VII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    osx, lat, ang, xno
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    • This manuscript contains one of only two non-fragmentary surviving manuscripts of the poem Heliand ,
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A XVIII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Contents:f. 1r: An early modern table of contents.f. 2r: A prayer beginning: 'Omnipotens sempiterne Dominus
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 59
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • the work known as Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Julius A VI
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    • One part (ff. 2r–17v), copied in the first half of the 11th century, includes a calendar and computistical
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 1621
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    • 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, Royal MS 2 E XIII
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    • The manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 2 E XIV.Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue of Pseudo-Jerome
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11283
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • This manuscript is the earliest extant manuscript of a type of bestiaries known as 'Clark's Second-Family
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3534
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • This manuscript contains the complete works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (b. 65