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    London. British Library, Add MS 26866
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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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    • Contents: ff. 1r-229v: A Psalter with interlinear and marginal glosses from the Parva Glosatura (Minor
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1915
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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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    • Zacharias of Besançon, d c 1156, also known as Zacharias Chrysopolitanus
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • England and Netherlands
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 146
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    enm, lat, xno
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    • England and Netherlands
    • This manuscript with medical and botanical texts was largely written in the 13th century, but also include
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius C I
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, ang
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    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • Abbo of Fleury, c 945-1004, Saint, Abbot of Ramsey Abbey and Fleury Abbey
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra A VII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, enm
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    • Hermann of Reichenau, 1013-1054, also known as Hermannus Contractus
    • England and Netherlands
    • contains four parts (ff. 1, 3-69, 70-106, 107-165) that were written separately between the late 11th and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 33241
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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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    • England and Netherlands
    • account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius E V
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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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    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Notitia Regionum et Provinciarum ( Names of Regions and Provinces), beginning: '
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    London. British Library, Add MS 82956
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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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    • Sir Thomas Phillips (b. 1792, d. 1872), antiquarian and bibliophile
    • needed for a bishop to perform Mass and carry out ordinations, blessings, and consecrations.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3044
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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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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • England and Netherlands
    • Life of St Jerome), attributed to Sebastian of Monte Cassino, as well as the famous story of St Jerome and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 38130
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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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    • Guglielmo Libri (b. 1803, f. 1869), mathematican and book thief
    • Sir Thomas Phillips (b. 1792, d. 1872), antiquarian and bibliophile
    • Abbo of Fleury, c 945-1004, Saint, Abbot of Ramsey Abbey and Fleury Abbey
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 218
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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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    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • The manuscript also contains Book I of the Expositio in Cantica Canticorum (Commentary on the Song of
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    London. British Library, Add MS 48984
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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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    • Hanmer, Job Walden, 1717-1783, 1st Baronet, lawyer and politician
    • Sir Thomas Phillips (b. 1792, d. 1872), antiquarian and bibliophile
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 101
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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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    • Origen (b. c. 185, d. 254), Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian
    • produced in a stylistic period of manuscript production at the abbey that has been dated to between 1150 and
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16974
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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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    • Saint Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), priest and theologian
    • 339), the Miracula Sancti Trudonis (Miracles of St Trond) by Stephen of Saint-Trond (fl. c. 1050), and
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2736
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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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    • Lupus of Ferrières, c 805-c 862, Abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul, Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
    • This volume also includes slightly later additions written by several 10th-century hands (ff. 106v-109v
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3680
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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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    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • obitu venerabilis Bedae (Letter on the Death of Bede the Venerable) by Cuthbert, a disciple of Bede, and
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, ang
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    • England, Winchester and East Anglia
    • St Swithun, also known as the Old Minster (see Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), pp. 103, 200).
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3095
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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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    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 654
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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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    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • It also includes the apocryphal Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca's Epistles to
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 3314
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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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    • Hermann of Reichenau, 1013-1054, also known as Hermannus Contractus
    • Ralph of Diceto, d c 1200, Archdeacon of Middlesex and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian