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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
    • the most famous medieval texts in English, by the otherwise largely unknown figure, William Langland
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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
    • Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
    • An early example of a Book of Hours produced in Bruges for the
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.6.2
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Late 14th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
    • origin is supported by a group of manuscripts of this period illuminated in the same style by the circle
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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
    • Alfred, 848/9-899, King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons; also known as 'the Great'
    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Alfred the Great's translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.3.18
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Second half of the 11th century C.E.
    Language
    Old English with Latin
    • Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
    • The Old English translation of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis
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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.
    • , suggesting that they are the initials of the owner and scribe.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.16
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    mid-late 730s C.E.
    Language
    Latin, Old English
    • Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
    • Its central theme is the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to Christianity and the establishment
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 3021
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Early fourteenth century. Original entries were compiled during the abbacy of William de Clapton (1305-1323) Clapton, William de, 1305-1323
    Language
    Latin, Latin, English and French, Latin and Middle English
    • Francis Fane, the twelfth Earl of Westmorland
    • by Bishop Aethelwold in the tenth century.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 3020
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Early fourteenth century. Original entries were compiled during the abbacy of William de Clapton (1305-1323) Clapton, William de, 1305-1323 .
    Language
    Latin
    • Francis Fane, the twelfth Earl of Westmorland
    • by Bishop Aethelwold in the tenth century.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8460
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1670-1714
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the younger, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
    • upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she dyed the 24 of March, 1602 the
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.1.1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    First half of 14th century, after 1307 C.E.
    Language
    French, Latin, English, French and English, French and Latin
    • Bede, the Venerable, pseudo
    • p style='text-align: justify;'>MS Gg.1.1 is a Trilingual compendium of texts put together in the
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 3479
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Mid-9th century
    Language
    Latin
    • The Benedictine Abbey St Mihiel (Meuse)
    • pseudo-Augustine (perhaps Gilbert the Minorite)
    • Homilies on the Song of Songs
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 10185
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Second half (perhaps last third) of the 13th century.
    • In four columns to the right, the roll details the rents due to the Priory at one or more of the quarter
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 4126
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Mid-19th century C.E.
    • Produced at some point during the middle decades of the nineteenth century
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.6
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Second quarter of the fourteenth century, probably c. 1330-1340 C.E.
    Language
    French
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • The Roman de la Rose is probably the most important and influential
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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
    • is a small fifteenth-century miscellany, consisting of a selection of devotional vernacular texts: the
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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
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • Each month of the Kalendar is provided with two miniatures, one showing the occupation of the month and
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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
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • , abbess of the Franciscan abbey of nuns at Bruisyard in Suffolk.
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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
    • , was brought to England in the thirteenth century at the instigation of the scholar and bishop Robert
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add.8844
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    c. 1595
    • The Trumbull lute book (MS Additional 8844) is a rare example