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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 10
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    lat, frm
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how Brutus, a descendant of Aeneas, travelled to
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    London. British Library, Burney MS 326
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    lat
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • The manuscript contains a number of additions:f. 224v: A list of the Kings of England, from Alfred the
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    London. British Library, Add MS 24914
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), and Haimo of Auxerre (d. c. 865), a monk from
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1915
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11853
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • The text has been written in two columns, which was the standard layout for Gilbert’s Glosses from about
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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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    Language
    lat
    • Contents: ff. 2r-11r: Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione (Chronology or
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius C I
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    lat, ang
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • or Hildesheim, Benedictine abbey (?)
    • The first part (ff. 2r-42v) was originally bound together with Harley MS 3667 from the Benedictine abbey
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2900
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    lat
    • or Flanders
    • al-hadir (Provision for the Traveller and the Nourishment of the Settled), by Ibn al-Jazzar (d. 979 or
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 7 C IV
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    lat, ang, enm
    • This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the
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    London. British Library, Add MS 34209
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • Italy, north (Bologna or Padua)
    • This 12th-century Gradual and Antiphonal is thought to contain one of the earliest surviving redactions
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4751
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    lat
    • This manuscript contains a bestiary from the 'second family' of bestiaries (see James, The Bestiary (
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius C II
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    lat, ang
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Sometimes known as the 'Tiberius Bede', it was made in the south of England in late 8th or early 9th
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    London. British Library, Add MS 38817
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    lat
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • However, the manuscript's readers also appear to have used the Historia as a source for devotional or
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4978
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • History of the English People), books 1-5, a 12th-century quire has been inserted (ff. 68-76) in order to
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16979
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    lat
    • This manuscript consists of a necrology from the Benedictine abbey of St Gilles (diocese of Nîmes) followed
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1246
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    lat
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • collection of sermons contained in this manuscript.ff. 2r-141r: A collection of 63 homilies mainly excerpted from
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 490
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    lat
    • influence as several decretals are addressed to English prelates.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3097
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    lat, grc
    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • It includes various materials related to the Benedictine abbey of Thorney: lives of St Botolph, abbot
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3008
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    lat
    • or Flanders
    • or Hildesheim, Benedictine abbey (?)
    • Its place of origin is unknown but it was probably produced in France or Germany: other copies of the
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    London. British Library, Add MS 40007
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    London. British Library
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    lat
    • only in this manuscript, suggesting that it might have been the original copy presented to William de