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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 55
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Text: recipes for 'Quinces stued' and 'Partridge stuede'. Strips of vellum cut out in lower margin.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 143
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • of the life of Christ - the other is CCCC MS 142.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 444
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1290 - 1310
    Language
    enm
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    • Summary: CCCC MS 444 is a c. 1300-25 copy of the Middle English Genesis and Exodus
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 410
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    lat, enm
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    • Walter of Odington (12..-13..)
    • Summary: CCCC MS 410 provides the only complete copy of Walter of Oddington OSB's
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 740
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1426–1450
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Troilus and Criseyde.
    • The text also incorporates (fols. 103v-106v) a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer's short acrostic poem, 'An ABC
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 88
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    2nd half 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • England and Netherlands
    • The hand changes at folio 41r-74v (beginning of quire 6, Psalm 81).
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 80
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • Summary: CCCC MS 80 contains Henry Lovelich's English versions of The History of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second half
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Troilus and Criseyde.
    • England and Netherlands
    • Start of text: epistle to 'Lityl lowys my sone' on the use of the astrolabe.
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    San Marino. The Huntington Library, HM 142
    Collection
    Huntington Digital Library
    Library
    The Huntington Library
    Date
    between 1450 and 1467
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500) [enm], Latin [lat]
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    • Joys of the Virgin]. 12. ff. 20v-21: [Lydgate, verse paraphrase of the Pater Noster]. 13. ff. 21-22v
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 147
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    enm
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    • Summary: MS 147, dating to c. 1410-1430, contains the 'Later Version' of the Lollard
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 78
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    lat, enm
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    • The Fons memorabilium is an encyclopaedia derived from a large number of classical and medieval sources
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Add. C. 220
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, early
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • England and Netherlands
    • The only complete lives are those of Judas Iscariot (fol. 21v) and St.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 25
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, beginning and 15th century, end
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Edmund of Abingdon
    • Miniature, initial added to a MS. of 15th century, beginning.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 133
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1399
    Language
    frm, enm, lat
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    • The work is a uniquely valuable source for the history of the troubled Anglo-Scottish border region and
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Richardson 44
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    enm
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Catherine of Alexandria in 30 chapters and short prayers.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 494
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    enm, fro
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    • The paste downs are fragments of a French romance, the prose Lancelot.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. Rolls 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1485
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Genealogy of the kings of England to Richard III. Chronicle of the Percy family to 1485.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 294
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1199
    Language
    lat, enm
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    • Hildebert of Lavardin, c 1056-1133/4, Bishop of Le Mans, Archbishop of Tours
    • Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
    • The volume also contains a loose vellum leaf of the fifteenth century containing miscellaneous texts,
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 253
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1000 - 1099
    Language
    lat, enm
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    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Ferrandus, Fulgentius, d c 545, Deacon of Carthage
    • , and the guide to Christian life for soldiers by Ferrandus, deacon of Carthage (d. 546/7).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Don. e. 120
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, after 1450
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Text: Commendation of the Souls. Decorated initial 'B(eati)' with trilobes, on gold ground.