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    London. British Library, Add MS 15304
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • only the titles). ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), Epistula ad Damasum (The Letter of Jerome to
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4984
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • the Southern Netherlands or Northern France.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 8873
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • The papal letters were copied directly or indirectly from papal registers, now lost.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 5041
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • The second part, dating to the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 8th century, contains a Life of St Fursey (ff
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 13 A XI
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11440
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • text is a collection concerning penance, which opens with De Penitentia Sive Medicus (About Penance or
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    London. British Library, Add MS 26866
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • Contents: ff. 1r-229v: A Psalter with interlinear and marginal glosses from the Parva Glosatura (Minor
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 10
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, frm
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how Brutus, a descendant of Aeneas, travelled to
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 1915
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11853
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • The text has been written in two columns, which was the standard layout for Gilbert’s Glosses from about
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C III
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, ang, eng, xno, grc
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    • Sextus Placitus (ascribed to)
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 56
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • ). ff. 64r-75r: De Excidio Troiae Historia (The History of the Fall of Troy), authorship attributed to
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 4 D II
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • Decoration:Two foliate initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of the prologue to St Mark and
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 2839
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno
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    • 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, Royal MS 15 A XVI
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat, ang
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    • Bede (attributed to)
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
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    London. British Library, Add MS 23944
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • This 9th-century manuscript contains De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia ad Valerium (On Marriage and Lust to
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    London. British Library, Sloane MS 1621
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • The bottom half of the page is lost, with a loss of text from Psalms 18:8-10.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 21164
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • This 10th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro
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    London. British Library, Add MS 17808
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • The manuscript is an important witness to the fact that Arabic science had already permeated Western
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 3534
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    lat
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    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • It represents one of the 82 surviving copies of Horace’s Satires from the 12th century (Reynolds, ‘Glossing