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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Nn.2.41
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Late 4th/early 5th Century C.E.
    Language
    Greek and Latin
    • which has survived from antiquity is a marvel for this reason alone, and as we explore its pages, we have
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives, MS Collect. Admin. 3
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives
    Date
    c.1390-c.1483
    Language
    Latin
    • Originally containing all the statutes by which the University was then ruled, the book’s creation may have
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ll.5.18
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Fifteenth century. This is ratified by the dateable texts contained in MS Ll.5.18, which accommodate production from quite early in the first half of the century. The Life of Saint Margaret, commissioned by Edmund Mortimer, was composed by John Lydgate between 1415-26 and the version of the Life of Saint Dorothy contained in MS Ll.5.18 has been identified by Manfred Görlach to be one of a group of the tale that dates from the early fifteenth century.
    Language
    English
    • Drawing upon this, a number of scholars have proposed that these compilations were prepared with a female
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.5.5
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Second quarter of the fourteenth century C.E., probably c. 1330-1340
    Language
    Latin and French
    • She also founded the Franciscan abbey of nuns at Denny, near Cambridge in 1342 and was buried there.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.25.4
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Mid-thirteenth century C.E. (c. 1240-1260)
    Language
    Latin
    • treatise written in verse designed to teach composition, and verses in praise of Henry II which may have
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.31
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Sixteenth century C.E.
    Language
    Middle English
    • There is also a short devotional poem at the end of the manuscript.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.1.24
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    8th century C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • Later users of the manuscript have added liturgical references, including marking up the accounts of
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    Holkham Hall Library, Holkham MS 685
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Holkham Hall Library
    Date
    1660-1678
    • A Table of exspences or wages whie buy Knowing what is For one Day you may see what it is in the weeke
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.18
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1410
    Language
    Middle English translated from the Latin. Contains some Latin text in the margins
    • In addition to CUL MS Gg.418, the B group also includes Oxford, New Hall 319.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives, MS Luard 187
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives
    Date
    25 Sept. 1570
    Language
    Latin
    • bears a note on the final page signed by William Cecil, Chancellor, that four copies of the statutes have
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives, MS Hare A.I, II
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives
    Date
    c.1590
    Language
    Latin
    • It is suggested that there might have been a set D which was Hare's working copy from which A, B and
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8460
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1670-1714
    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • [Untitled - Incipit: here Vertue, Valour, Charity, and all]
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives, MS Grace Book Alpha
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives
    Date
    1454-89, 1533
    Language
    Latin
    • It was also used to record graces granted; commissions (that is, appointments of syndicates for special
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.6.32
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    850-1000 C.E.
    Language
    Latin, with additions in Gaelic (or Middle Irish)
    • While the manuscripts to which the Book of Deer is closest in character are all Irish, scholars have
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ee.4.24
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1280-1290
    Language
    Latin, Latin and Norman French in two columns
    • view/MS-EE-00004-00024/74'>35v-38v), which, due to the missing last leaf of the manuscript, are also
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ll.1.10
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    ninth century, (c. 820-840 C.E.)
    Language
    Latin, Old English
    • It is believed to have been composed in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia (which broadly corresponds
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    Cambridge. Trinity Hall Library, MS 1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Trinity Hall Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • It illustrates the course said to have been taken by Domme Eafe’s hind when it designated the land to
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    Cambridge. St Catharine's College Library, MS 17
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. St Catharine's College Library
    Date
    s. xvii ex. Final quarter of the seventeenth century
    Language
    Late Renaissance French
    • The edition also contained chapters of what is generally recognized as Rochefoucauld’s Mémoires
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    Cambridge. St. John's College Library, MS S.31
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. St. John's College Library
    Date
    1620s (?)
    • [Untitled - Incipit: Loe here, in lifes defence, with a sure stroke]
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    Cambridge. St. John's College Library, MS S.54
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. St. John's College Library
    Date
    1470-1500
    • [Untitled - Incipit: pray we to ȝoure lady dere for here holy grace Sche saw þeis women all bedene]