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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ll.1.18
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1400-1500
    • here Begynnyth the Chapetouris and the Ordinance off potage Flechmetes, Bakenmetes, Fryetmetes, Gelys
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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
    • Scholars have suggested that as many as 20 of the extant Rose manuscripts may have been illustrated by
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ee.3.59
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    c.1250-1260 C.E.
    Language
    French, Old (ca. 842-1300)
    • for the study of the hagiographical writings about St Edward sponsored by Henry III (1216-72), and also
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.1.33
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Second half of 12th century C.E.
    Language
    English
    • It also includes penitential material: three anonymous texts and a translation of Alcuin's De uirtutibus
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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 I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • The translations formed part of a wider programme of educational reform; the bishops are also instructed
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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.
    • Wing was employed by Jarman to restore some of his damaged manuscripts and it must have been after this
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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
    • manuscript contains contemporary interlinear and marginal notes in both English and Latin which were also
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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
    • period illuminated in the same style by the circle of the Master of the Pink Baldachins, some of which also
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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.
    • throughout, as well as the level of difficulty of much of the music suggests the lute book is more likely to have
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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
    • astronomical, theological, pastoral and devotional texts and is predominantly written in Anglo-Norman but also
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 6594
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    9th century
    Language
    Greek
    • manuscript is based on the testimony of a Greek scholar at the end of the nineteenth century who claimed to have
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.4.17
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    First quarter of the 14th Century C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • Some saints' names featuring in the calendar with which the book opens suggest that it may have been
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Nn.2.41
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Late 4th/early 5th Century C.E.
    Language
    Greek and Latin
    • which has survived from antiquity is a marvel for this reason alone, and as we explore its pages, we have
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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
    • Drawing upon this, a number of scholars have proposed that these compilations were prepared with a female
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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
    • She also founded the Franciscan abbey of nuns at Denny, near Cambridge in 1342 and was buried there.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.25.4
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Mid-thirteenth century C.E. (c. 1240-1260)
    Language
    Latin
    • treatise written in verse designed to teach composition, and verses in praise of Henry II which may have
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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
    • There is also a short devotional poem at the end of the manuscript.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.1.24
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    8th century C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • Later users of the manuscript have added liturgical references, including marking up the accounts of
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.18
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1410
    Language
    Middle English translated from the Latin. Contains some Latin text in the margins
    • In addition to CUL MS Gg.418, the B group also includes Oxford, New Hall 319.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8460
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1670-1714
    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    • [Untitled - Incipit: here Vertue, Valour, Charity, and all]