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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts


 * 1) St Augustine Gospels - new christian literacy emerging from ancient rome
 * 2) Codex Amiatinus - oldest latin bible
 * 3) Book of Kells - Celtic world where magic and belief inseparable
 * 4) Leiden Aratea - about copying manuscripts
 * 5) Morgan Beatus - apocalypse 10th C
 * 6) Hugo Pictor ("Hugh the Painter") - norman conquest
 * 7) Copenhagen Psalter - monastic to secular book production 12th C
 * 8) Carmina Burana - songs of love early 13th C
 * 9) Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux - book of hours
 * 10) Hengwrt Chaucer - Canterbury tales
 * 11) Visconti Semideus - warfare and armaments in modern russia
 * 12) Spinola Hours - luxury and money