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Dome of the Rock

a name conferred on the Mosque of Omar, Jerusahistorians, the survey was begun in 1080 or 1083; according to others, at the close of 1085. The book itself records its completion in 1086. The work appears to have been known by the other names of "Rotulus Wintoniæ (Roll of Winchester); "Liber de Wintonia" (Book of Winchester, in consequence of its being at one period preserved in that city); the "Liber Censualis Angliæ" (Ratebook of England); "Scriptum Thesauri Regis" (Record of the King's Treasury).

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