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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 272
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    0875 - 0899
    Language
    lat
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    • by 887, and doubt has been expressed over whether a manuscript sponsored by an important count would have
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 19
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1199
    Language
    lat
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    • in this manuscript was copied at Christ Church, Canterbury in around 1130 by a scribe whose hand has also
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 23
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1000 - 1099
    Language
    lat
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    • Canterbury, but a presentation inscription gives the manuscript provenance at Malmesbury, and it has also
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 61
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1425
    Language
    enm
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    • The patron of this manuscript is unknown, but it is likely to have been the prominent male figure dressed
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 248
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1500 - 1599
    Language
    gre, lat
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    • It also contains a Latin translation of the life of St Nicholas of Myra.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 442
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1000 - 1199
    Language
    lat
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    • Its small size suggests that it might have been someone's personal working collection.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 468
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1275 - 1299
    Language
    lat, frm, gre
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    • The book also contains a section of verses concerned with prognostics, proverbs and the world of nature
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 354
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1599
    Language
    eng
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    • ', this workaday copy is in marked contrast to the luxurious copy of the Latin original that Parker also
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 441
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1200 - 1299
    Language
    lat
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    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • In this case the texts are penitential, moral, didactic and theological tracts, with some material also
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 119
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1500 - 1599
    Language
    lat, eng, ger, fre
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    • Basil of Caesarea, 329-379, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea; also known as 'the Great'
    • The volume also contains a few additional brief pieces such as a copy of Martin Bucer's will, a copy
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 10
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1299
    Language
    lat
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    • The various 'causae', the legal cases, have historiated and ornamental initials.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 512
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    lat
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    • In the text we haverubric: (280r) Copia bulle greg. pape de reprobacione articulorum
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 460
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1200 - 1399
    Language
    lat, frm
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    • The book also has the Constitutiones de uita clericorum by John Stratford (d. 1348), archbishop of Canterbury
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 228
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1200 - 1299
    Language
    lat
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    • Hall to suggest in his edition that one or two folia have been lost from the manuscript.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 181
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1349
    Language
    lat, frm
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    • This codex also contains two well-known pieces of medieval travel literature about the far east, Willelmus
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 240
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    lat
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    • See also MS 176. The book is bound in an old limp vellum binding.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 178
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1000 - 1099
    Language
    ang, lat
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    • another twelve for specific occasions; twenty-two of these are taken exactly from an exemplar but two have
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 380
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1175 - 1199
    Language
    lat
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    • and ornamental initials by the Simon Master, an illuminator who worked for St Albans Abbey and may have
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 81
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    gre, lat
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    • 'Theodoros' in gold letters is probably a sign of Theodore Gaza's (c.1400-1475) ownership, but may have
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 43
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1399
    Language
    lat
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    • fifth book of the Gesta pontificum, together with extracts from William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum, have