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    "title": "Alexandreis",
    "description": "The Alexandreis, the life of Alexander the Great in verse, was composed by Walter of Châtillon around the year 1182 at the court of William, Archbishop of Rheims, to whom the poem is dedicated and whose name (GUILLERMUS) is spelled out in acronym by the first initial of each book (on fol. 19 of the present manuscript, Book 3, which should begin with the letter [I], is mistakenly given the initial [Q]). The Alexandreis was a widely-used school-text, a use evidenced in the present volume by the extensive marginal and interlinear glossing.",
    "date": "[\"[ca. 1250]\"]",
    "year": 1250,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "Latin",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_018646",
    "creators": [
        "Walter, of Châtillon, active 1170-1180",
        "Louis II, Count of Flanders, 1330-1384",
        "Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855",
        "Eustace, F. H.",
        "Holmes, John, 1800-1854",
        "Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878",
        "Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962",
        "Sotheby's (Firm)"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.--Romances",
        "Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C."
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
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        "France"
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        "Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France",
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        "Sprinkled paper bindings",
        "Inscriptions",
        "Autographs",
        "Embossed stamps",
        "Insertions (Provenance)",
        "Dates (Provenance)",
        "Poetry"
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    "extent": "100 leaves : parchment ; 275 x 185 (190 x 55) mm bound to 289 x 193 mm",
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    "notes": [
        "Ms. codex.",
        "Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.",
        "Origin: Written in France in the middle of the 13th-century. Blank spaces left for glossing, especially in Book 4 (fol. 31-34, glossing IV:181-212); spaces left unfilled on fol. 34v-42; large section cut out of fol. 35, no text loss. Marginal and interlinear glossing throughout, in several hands dating from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries."
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