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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.17.1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1180-1230 C.E.
    Language
    Latin, Latin and Anglo-Norman, Latin with Anglo-Norman
    • Unlike the huge majority of surviving manuscripts from this early period, it was evidently not intended
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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
    • 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, Harley MS 337
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • around 1314; fragmentary (early 14th century). ff. 32r–53v: Sentences on Scripture, mainly deriving from
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Fr. d. 1 (R)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1321-1327
    Language
    Anglo-Norman
    • Genealogy of the Kings of England from Egbert to Edward II.
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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
    • However, it also includes a copy of the Comput (Computus), the oldest extant scientific text in the vernacular
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    Durham. University Library, Add.MS. 1950/A/8
    Collection
    Durham University and Cathedral Library
    Library
    Durham. University Library
    Date
    early/mid 13th century
    Language
    Anglo-Norman
    • Fragment from Wace, Roman de Brut written in England early/mid 13th century reused as a hinge strip in
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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
    • Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis. ff. 125r-231v: Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from
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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
    • effigiei vultus de Dominici que Rome habita Veronica nuncupatur’. ff. 3r-12v: Two-panel pages with scenes from
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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
    • The leaves formerly numbered Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff. 2r-v and 142r-v are cuttings from a Psalter
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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
    • This English manuscript contains a number of legal texts from the 12th and the 14th centuries.
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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
    • These include scholastic texts from Late Antiquity that were used for education at the school of medicine
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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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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet. a. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1381–1400
    Language
    Latin, Anglo-Norman, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The manuscript is thought to date from c. 1390.
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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
    • The first part originates from and was possibly also produced at the Cistercian abbey of St Mary 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, Cotton MS Claudius C IX
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno, eng, ang, enm
    • The manuscript’s final flyleaf (f. [210]recto) appears to contain previously unnoticed excerpts from
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ee.4.24
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1280-1290
    Language
    Latin, Latin and Norman French in two columns
    • ’s meaning, except for the psalms beginning the seven Nocturnes, which show instead enlarged scenes from
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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
    • unfoliated leaves between ff. 1 and 2. f. 2: early modern table of contents. ff. 3-10, containing leaves from
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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
    • contains later additions:f. 1r: A note written in 1839 relating to the purchase by Sir Robert Cotton from