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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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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Garland the Computist, fl 1080
    • At the end, a short interrogatio on the cycle of the Sun (f. 17v). f. 18r: A prognostic in verse referring
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 12 D IV
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Helperic's treatise on the computus derives from the second family of manuscripts of this text, which
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3107
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    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Letters) of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430).
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 105
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • et necessarias in diversis speciebus possessions conferret.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 37517
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    • the archbishop of Canterbury
    • The main body of the text was probably copied in the 3rd quarter of the 10th century.
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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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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Pliny, the Elder
    • Bede, the Venerable, pseudo
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 1 A XVIII
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • colours in the text.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 624
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    • Gildas, c 500-c 575, Saint, 'the Wise' or 'Badonicus'
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • An imperfect Passionale written in the Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury (1st
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    London. British Library, Add MS 16606
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Ephraem the Syrian
    • by Ephraim the Syrian (b. c. 306, d. 373), but a number of shorter texts were added at the end in the
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    London. British Library, Add MS 15601
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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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
    • probably the Loire region
    • ’s Timaeus by Calcidius (fl. 4th century), the Psychomachia (The Struggle in the Soul) and the Cathemerinon
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    London. British Library, Add MS 22719
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Constantine, the African, approximately 1020-1087, translator
    • This manuscript contains the medical treatise Pantegni (The Book of Medical Arts) by Constantine the
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 658
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Richard of Saint-Victor, d 1173, Prior of the Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • probably the Loire region
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2659
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    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the younger, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • This manuscript contains the Epistolae Morales ad Lucilium (The Moral Letters to Lucilius) by the Roman
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian D II
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • John, the Deacon of Rome, approximately 824-approximately 882
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3213
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Eusebius of Caesarea, c 263-c 340, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine
    • probably the Loire region
    • 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 2992
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Harley, Edward, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the
    • probably the Loire region
    • This volume is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, and has suffered more extensive water damage.Contents
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2719
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • This manuscript belongs to the first family of the text, which is close to the archetype (see Nonii Marcelli
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius E IV
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Robert the Lotharingian, d 1095, Bishop of Hereford
    • be buried (Winchcombe) and other monastic houses in England (f. 13v); the purported foundation charter
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius E V
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • . ff. 234-235r: Excerpt from Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales, named Decreta Gregorii (Decrets of Gregory the
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2729
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?
    • Harley, Edward, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the
    • the Historia Romana.