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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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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G e.37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476-1477
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Advertisement for Sarum Pie [‘Ordinale ad usum Sarum’] ([Westminster: William Caxton, c.1476-7])The
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 296
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1383 - 1399
    Language
    enm, lat
    • The entire collection was once ascribed to John Wyclif (d. 1384) but is now believed to be the work of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. C. 81
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, end
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • A tretys in Englyssh tong after the conseite of Ypocras, Avycenne, etc.'
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. e. 17
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1400–1410
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • There are instructions for the illuminator at fols. 19, 55v, 63v, 74v, and 95v, but the miniatures were
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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
    • Summary: The sole text in CCCC MS 494, dating to the fifteenth century, is a unique
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. e Musaeo 42
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1467-1469
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The text is a genealogical Biblical history, later becoming a genealogy of the kings of England up to
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 1031
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1400
    Language
    enm
    • The northern passion : manuscript, [ca. 1400]
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 183
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, beginning
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • New Testament, certain books of the Old Testament, and Apocrypha (Wyclif's later version).
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius E III
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno, enm
    • The first part contains the Abbreviationes Chronicorum (Abbreviations of Chronicles) and the Ymagines
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 261
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    dated 1564
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Romances (Sir Isenbras, Sir Degore, The Jest of Sir Gawayne, Sir Eglamour of Artois).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lyell 31
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Champ initial with foliated feathering with acanthus and flowers extending between the columns and into
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Smith Newsb. d.19
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    26th March 1465
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • This manuscript was probably sent by Ballard to North Wales soon after the coronation.
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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
    • Summary: CCCC MS 444 is a c. 1300-25 copy of the Middle English Genesis and Exodus
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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)
    • The text also incorporates (fols. 103v-106v) a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer's short acrostic poem, 'An ABC
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 101
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1500 - 1599
    Language
    lat, frm, eng, ang, enm
    • The broad emphasis of the material is historical in nature, with a particular interest in the history
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius A XII
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, enm
    • Contents: ff. 5r-78v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin (b. c. 965), Historia Normannorum (History of the Normans
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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
    • Summary: MS 147, dating to c. 1410-1430, contains the 'Later Version' of the Lollard
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. B. 166
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Text missing beginning: starts at the close of the history of King Lear. Plain initials. Damaged.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet. a. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1390-1400
    Language
    Anglo-Norman, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • By two hands, the first, fols. 105 ff., 265, an English parallel to the 'Ci nous dit' group of Flemish