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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 424
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1500 - 1599 - 1400 - 1499 - 1100 - 1199 - 1200 - 1299
    Language
    lat, eng
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    • Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe || A treatise of the astrolabe made English by Chaucer for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 405
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1200 - 1325
    Language
    lat, frm, enm
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    • auoit Regne quant ceste date fu fete xviij aunz (i.e. 1325)Note: (7r) Charm for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 449
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1500 - 1599
    Language
    ang, lat
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    • the first instructional texts on Latin to be written in a vernacular; as such it was extremely useful for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 230
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1199
    Language
    lat, frm
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    • The text was of interest in the Middle Ages, used as a source for the twelfth-century French romance,
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 445
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1200 - 1399
    Language
    lat
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    • dictaminis secundum stilum romanae curiae by Richard de Pophis (Pofi) (fl. c. 1256-71), a handbook for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 456
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1375 - 1399
    Language
    lat
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    • manuscript, since the Archbishop and the erstwhile bishop of Durham shared a love of books not simply for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 21
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1375 - 1399
    Language
    lat
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    • However, a case can be made for the donor to have been another Henry Somer, a senior royal official who
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 2II
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1199
    Language
    lat
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    • It can be identified with a Bible commissioned by Hervey, the sacrist, for his brother, Talbot, prior
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 88
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    0900 - 0999
    Language
    lat
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    • It seems to have later belonged to the historian John Bale (1495-1563), for whom Parker found work at
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 360
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    lat
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    • Melchbourne, Bedfordshire in 1390 and in 1397 became the vicar of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford, where he remained for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 378
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    lat
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    • >CCCC MS 378 is a compendium of tracts on logic, dating to c. 1475-1500, very probably put together for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 423
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1475 - 1525
    Language
    lat, eng
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    • them they need not choose a bishop to protect and defend them as had been heretofore their custom, for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 309
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1199
    Language
    lat
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    • eleventh-century copy of Sallust's Jugurthine War; according to Lapidge, this is the only surviving evidence for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 277
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1299
    Language
    lat
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    • strong>Note: On f. 39r change of hand and entirely new exordium: a very long address to Christ for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 171B
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    lat, frm, enm
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    • important texts of late medieval Scottish historical writing in existence and was used as the basis for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 490
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1613
    Language
    lat
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    • These run from about 1590 to 1743Note: The first 45 cups described were sold for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 257
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1425
    Language
    lat
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    • an important genre of literature which followed the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215's recommendations for
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 37
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1325
    Language
    lat, frm
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    • The overwhelming sense of the these texts is of a collection put together by or for a secular figure
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 192
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    952
    Language
    lat, cel, gre
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    • for Christe benedic)Note: A curiously indented piece has been cut out of the
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 44
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1000 - 1099
    Language
    lat, ang
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    • probably St Augustine's rather than Christ Church; however its text has been held to show that it was made for