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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
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    • text-align: justify;'>This book contains a compilation of statutes, charters, orders, oaths etc. prepared for
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.2.4
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Third quarter of the 11th century C.E.
    Language
    Old English
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    • or De cura pastorali) was composed in the 590s, shortly after he became pope, as a handbook for
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    Cambridge. Sidney Sussex College, MS Ward B
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Sidney Sussex College
    Date
    c. 1600
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    • Each company, most comprising around seven or eight men, bore responsibility for crafting a separation
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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
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    • British Library MS Harley 5272, for example, bears close textual parallels to MS Ll.5.18, containing
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.6.8
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1st quarter of the 15th century C.E.
    Language
    Latin
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    • An early example of a Book of Hours produced in Bruges for the
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives, MS Arms 1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives
    Date
    9 June 1573
    Language
    Latin
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    • justify;'>This grant is in the form of letters patent of Robert Cooke, Clarenceux Kings of Arms, acting for
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    Cambridge. Pembroke College Library, MS LC.II.77
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Pembroke College Library
    Date
    1617-1620
    Language
    Latin
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    • Wren first listed all the previous gifts of books for which he could
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.5.31
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1249-1250 C.E.
    Language
    Latin
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    • cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MM-00005-00031/77'>heresiarchs blow trumpets, two-headed angels stand for
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    Cambridge. Sidney Sussex College, MS 2
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Sidney Sussex College
    Language
    Latin, Written in a mix of English and Latin.
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    • Liturgical requirements include anniversary Masses for Edward IV, Archbishop Rotherham’s parents and,
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives, MS Luard 7*
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Archives
    Date
    6 Feb. 1291/2
    Language
    Latin
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    • privileges of the University granted by Henry III, and an agreement between the Scholars and Burgesses for
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    Cambridge. Trinity Hall Library, MS 1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Trinity Hall Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • illustrates the course said to have been taken by Domme Eafe’s hind when it designated the land to be granted for
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ee.3.59
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    c.1250-1260 C.E.
    Language
    French, Old (ca. 842-1300)
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    • masterpiece of mid thirteenth-century English illumination, the present manuscript preserves vital evidence for
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Nn.4.1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1519-1529 C.E.
    Language
    Latin
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    • A Benedictional contains blessings, prayers, and rites intended for
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    Cambridge. Queen's College Library, MS 83
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Queen's College Library
    Date
    1560s and 1570s
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    • The copie of the Councells lettres to the Commissioners / for the maintenance of Harquebuzes & other
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.25.2
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1540-1574 C.E.
    Language
    Latin
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    • The manuscript was copied in the sixteenth century for Matthew Parker
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add.3056
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    c. 1610 C.E.
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    • The music is all for solo 6- or 7-course renaissance lute, and composers are known for most of the 71
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 10139
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1676
    Language
    English, Latin
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    • The volume begins with Remington’s 'designe' for the library and goes on to discuss the use of the library
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8460
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1670-1714
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    • [Untitled - Incipit: be Constant be Constant Feare not for Pain]
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.24
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    10th century C.E.
    Language
    Greek, Latin and Greek
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    • bishop sent envoys to Athens and MS Ff.1.24, almost certainly Choniates’ copy, was brought to England for
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    Cambridge. Sidney Sussex College, MS 95
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Sidney Sussex College
    Language
    Latin
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    • in the vernacular), this collections and those that served as its source, must have provided exempla for