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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
    • Peter the Chanter
    • This early 13th-century manuscript originates from the Cistercian monastery of Byland Abbey in North
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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
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • The first part was produced at the beginning of the 12th century in England.
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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
    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Basil the Great
    • However, it also includes a copy of the Comput (Computus), the oldest extant scientific text in the vernacular
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Appendix LVI
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • pseudo-Augustine (perhaps Gilbert the Minorite)
    • Among its contents is the Cosmographia (Cosmography), an 8th-century work that describes the cosmography
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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
    • Little Office of the Virgin Mary, containing collects for the Virgin Mary, the Trinity, the Holy Cross
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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
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • Each month of the Kalendar is provided with two miniatures, one showing the occupation of the month and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 23 pt. 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, second quarter (?)
    Language
    Anglo-Norman
    • probably the Loire region
    • Anglo-Norman verse: The miracle of the sun and Charlemagne’s victory, ll. 2438-2493.
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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
    • probably the Loire region
    • This manuscript contains a copy of the Book of Psalms in Anglo-Norman verse with the corresponding Latin
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. C. 538
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, end
    Language
    Anglo-Norman
    • probably the Loire region
    • Two male figures witness the scene (the turbaned man standing behind the kneeling figure could be Aristotle
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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)
    • texts contained in the seven leaves now missing from the end of the Evangelie.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Broxbourne 112.3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    After 1272
    Language
    Anglo-Norman
    • Chronicle roll of the Kings of England.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 180
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1265-70
    Language
    Anglo-Norman
    • Apocalypse with commentary (known as the 'Douce Apocalypse').
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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
    • Over the centuries, with the rebinding of the main manuscript, the flyleaves have been further damaged
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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 manuscript contains the single surviving copy of an Anglo-Norman interlinear translation of the Gallican
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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 (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 Vespasian E III
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
    • The first part (ff. 4-102) was produced at Burton Abbey in the early 13th century and contains the Annals
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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 manuscript also includes a prose description of England in Anglo-Norman and a Latin copy of the so-called
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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 first part (ff. 4-17), written in the 2nd half of the 12th century, contains the Chronicle of the
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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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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Fr. d. 1 (R)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1321-1327
    Language
    Anglo-Norman
    • Genealogical roll, in French, of the Kings of England, showing the genealogy of the Dukes of Normandy