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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 304
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Book of diseases and medical recipes, arranged according to the part of the body which is diseased.
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 151
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1401–1500
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The manuscript is one of only two that now contain a full and accurate authorial ascription.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 304
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, middle
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The manuscript is incomplete, but a faithful copy by a much inferior hand is MS.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. poet. 32
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second half
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • This section is written in English.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 425
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, middle
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Manuscript containing the Psalter in English verse; shown is an English version of the Pentecost hymn
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 152
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1401–1500
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The text of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is complete, but in a different order than that encountered in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 304
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1240–1260
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The MS. is mutilated. (P&A iii. 437, pl.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet. e. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1460-1480
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • script with musical notation in a ‘minstrel’s manuscript’, begins with Nowell, nowell, nowell, this is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 309
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    between 1787 and 1792
    Language
    English, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Douce made this copy of the poem from the manuscript which is now MS.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 126
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, first half
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • (Presumably a single quire is lost.).
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 145
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1301–1400
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • MS 145 is also notable for its unusual page design.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce Charters 62
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1450
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • This manuscript is kept in MS. Douce a.1.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 893
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500), Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • In its branches is a two-faced king holding sceptre.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. e Musaeo 42
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1467-1469
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The text is a genealogical Biblical history, later becoming a genealogy of the kings of England up to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet. a. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1381–1400
    Language
    Latin, Anglo-Norman, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • This manuscript, famously known as the Vernon Manuscript, is an impressive book in every respect.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G e.37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476-1477
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • end (in Latin) not to remove the notice shows that it was meant to be attached to a wall or door: it is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. misc. e. 22 (R)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, first half and 15th century, middle (added)
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • On either side of oak where Christ is crucified, inscription 'W' and 'den', referring to the owner of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1170–1185
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The manuscript is Orrm's autograph, and contains numerous insertions, deletions and revisions in his