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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 06808
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1710
    Language
    English
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    • Concerns the Company's claims against the French pre-dating King William's War, and seeks the Crown
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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
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    • Francis Fane, the twelfth Earl of Westmorland
    • by Bishop Aethelwold in the tenth century.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 254
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1595
    Language
    English, Persian
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    • Manuscript commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar (1542-1605), containing stories by the Persian poet
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G e.2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [c.1499]
    Language
    English
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    • Provenance: On the title-page a capital ‘R' as in books donated by George Carey, Lord Hunsdon (1547
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 52
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1199
    Language
    lat, eng
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    • , or Glossa continua, on the Pauline Epistles by Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160).
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 369
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1499
    Language
    lat, eng
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    • ordines religiosi fundebantur - catalogus regum Saxonum, in uno folioNote: In other
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 06800
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    1688
    Language
    English
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    • Note: English secretary hand; 1 column of 37-38 lines (31 x 20 cm.).
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 868
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    c. 1613
    Language
    English
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    • The volume also contains a short manuscript score: Thomas Campion’s ‘Author of Light’, for four voices
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 311
    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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    • Summary: CCCC MS 311 is one of the many manuscripts in the collection that reflects
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 450
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1200 - 1399
    Language
    lat, eng, frm
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    • John the Bishop (?)
    • de arte tabellionatus in curia RomanaNote: Double columns, a rather pointed hand
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. gen. c. 24
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1665–1693
    Language
    English, Latin
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    • contain a large amount of curious observations and original work, and are of considerable value from the
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 357
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1525
    Language
    eng, lat, enm
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    • The first is a unique late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century copy of the translation into English
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G d.11
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [1489-90]
    Language
    English
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    • Wanting the blank leaf I6. 287 × 200 × 15 mm (size of leaf 278 × 190 mm).
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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
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    • 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. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 488
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1569
    Language
    lat, eng
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    • history of Corpus Christi College and also a biography of Matthew Parker which can also be found in the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G d.29
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1495
    Language
    English
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    • xx6 containing the printer's device and the woodcut title.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. B d.23
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1513
    Language
    English
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    • [a-c⁶ d⁴ e-z⁶ aa-dd⁶]Decoration: Illuminated decoration throughout in the Flemish style, consisting
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 168
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1500 - 1599
    Language
    lat, eng
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    • This volume was, in fact, donated by Dr John Jegon, probably after 1600.
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 1113
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    c. 1620
    Language
    English, Latin, Italian
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    • Keyboard book containing works of Italian and English origin, copied probably in the 1620s.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 385
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1200 - 1399
    Language
    lat, frm, eng
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    • Richard of Saint-Victor, d 1173, Prior of the Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris
    • The first part is a tract on the sins of monks which analyses the doubts and temptations which confront