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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 ([1]) - luxury and money