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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4980
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Alcuin of York
    • Abbey of Corbie
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2831
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • This manuscript is thought to date from before Alcuin's arrival at the abbey of Marmoutiers (or Saint-Martin
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11849
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • It was copied by the same scribe who wrote Paris, BnF, MS lat. 267 from the school of Tours (see Rand
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3023
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Fulbert of Chartres (pseudo-Ambrose)
    • Berengar of Tours, c 1000-1088, Archdeacon of Angers
    • Ascelin of Chartres, fl mid-11th century
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 124
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, around 1500
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bernard of Clairvaux
    • This richly decorated book of hours was illuminated in Tours in about 1500, for an owner from Toulouse
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    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 38
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Genève. Bibliothèque de Genève
    Date
    15th century, around 1480
    Language
    Latin
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    • Millar, Eric George, 1887-1966, DLitt, Keeper of Manuscripts British Museum
    • Beatty, Alfred Chester, Unspecified, of Add MS 43460
    • This elegant pocket-size book of hours was illuminated in Tours around 1480 by the Maître des camaïeux
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 10444
    Collection
    Europeana Regia
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    8e - 9e siècle, 11e -12e siècle
    Language
    latin
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    • Eucherius of Lyon, d 449, Bishop of Lyon
    • Augustine of Hippo
    • Abbey of Echternach (Luxembourg)
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    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 34
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Schaffhausen. Stadtbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, middle of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
    • The very worn and soiled pages 1r and 88v suggest that this single-column, mostly undecorated copy of
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3012
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Content: ff. 1r-32v: St Augustine, De quantitate animae (The measure of the Soul), preceded by the Retractationes
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    London. British Library, Add MS 47678
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Coke, Thomas William, 1754-1837, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham
    • Coke, Thomas, 1880-1949, Baron Lovell, 4th Earl of Leicester
    • manuscript contains In Catilinam (The Speech against Catiline), Pro Ligario (The Speech in Defense of
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 609
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Workshop located in the west of France, maybe in Nantes (France, Loire-Atlantique)
    • This manuscript is part of the 'Irish-Northumbrian' group, according to Marsden, 'The Gospels of St Augustine
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 35
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Before 1464
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin
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    • Text: Office of the Dead. Miniature. Burial in a church.
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    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Cod. 101
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum
    Date
    15th century, 16th century, second quarter of the 15th century / around 1490
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • A book of hours in Latin and French, written in the second quarter of the 15th century in Paris, but
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Liturg. 80
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1500
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin
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    • Book of Hours. Use of Rome.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 34
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, end
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin
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    • Book of Hours. Use of Tours.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2790
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Prologus ex commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (St Jerome's prologue from his commentary to the Gospel of
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 5724
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    IXe s. (seconde moitié)
    Language
    latin
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    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. icon. 414
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    Tours 1490 - 1500
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/fre, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
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    • the workshop of the French illuminator Jean Poyer (circa 1445–1504) of Tours.
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 12995
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    IXe siècle (première moitié).
    Language
    latin
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    • Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2805
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Contents: ff. 1r-237v: Bible , containing most of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalm 142), including