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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 1580
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • Adriani Imperatoris Secundo philosopho in silencio philosophantis (Questions of the Emperor Hadrian to
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 337
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • around 1314; fragmentary (early 14th century). ff. 32r–53v: Sentences on Scripture, mainly deriving from
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius C IX
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno, eng, ang, enm
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • The manuscript ends with a section (ff. 204-209) of indices, notes and letters that were added to the
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C III
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, ang, eng, xno, grc
    • Sextus Placitus (ascribed to)
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 230
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • The Kalendar (ff. 2r-5v), however, appears to have been produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 475
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, fro, xno
    • Marcellus Empiricus, 4th or 5th century
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
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    London. British Library, Add MS 14252
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    enm, lat, xno
    • The latter text presents a letter from a certain Christian priest-king named ‘John’ who writes to the
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    London. British Library, Add MS 35180
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • This early 13th-century manuscript originates from the Cistercian monastery of Byland Abbey in North
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 2839
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • These include scholastic texts from Late Antiquity that were used for education at the school of medicine
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A VII
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    osx, lat, ang, xno
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • It ends imperfectly, in the middle of the account of the journey to Emmaus.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 24066
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • This English manuscript contains a number of legal texts from the 12th and the 14th centuries.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 35283
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • left column with a parallel Anglo-Norman French text in the right column; the translation is related to
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 157
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • The manuscript also contains the ‘Psalter of the Virgin Mary’ that has been attributed to St Anselm (
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Nero A V
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    xno, lat
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • The first part (ff. 1r-82v), dating to the 2nd half of the 12th century, contains two Anglo-Norman works
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Galba E IV
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • Attributed to Hippocrates
    • Aristotle (attributed to)
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian E III
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • The fourth part (ff. 117-170) contains the Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem (Admonition to a Spiritual
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Domitian A II
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • Willelmus cum manu valida pugnatorum in Angliam transnavigavit'. ff. 131r-142r: An untitled Chronicle to
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4070
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • or Flanders
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • i recto, i verso, 1r, 1v, 123v, 124r, 124v are blank].Decoration: Large and small initials in green or
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius E III
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno, enm
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • The third part contains the Opus Chronicorum (Chronicle Work) attributed to William Rishanger (b. 1250
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 146
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    enm, lat, xno
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • on oils.ff. 79v-86v: A collection of medical recipes in Latin and the vernacular (Anglo-Norman and/or