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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
    • uncial in service books because its larger, unligatured and easily readable letters proved convenient for
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.5.78.3
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    c. 1600 C.E.
    • href='/view/MS-NN-00006-00036/1'>Nn.6.36, form a chronological series largely devoted to tablature for
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.4.42
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    after c. 850 with glosses added between the latter half of the ninth century and the early eleventh century
    Language
    Old Welsh, Latin, Latin with glosses in Latin, Old Welsh and Old Irish, Latin encoded in Greek letters
    • In what is an exceedingly rare colophon for a manuscript of Welsh provenance, Núadu signs his work: "
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add.2764(2)
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    c. 1585-90 C.E.
    • Candish's galliard and Cutting's A Toy) are incomplete although other versions are known for
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.17.1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1180-1230 C.E.
    Language
    Latin, Latin and Anglo-Norman, Latin with Anglo-Norman
    • University Library, Ff.1.17.1, dated 1180-c.1230, here called The Later Cambridge Songs, was for
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ll.1.18
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1400-1500
    • [Untitled - Incipit: Hit hath ben taght in tyme off pestilence for a souerayn]
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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
    • Formula for confession (prose)
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add.8844
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    c. 1595
    • What survives contains 38 items of music, all but two for 6-course renaissance lute, mainly solos plus
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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
    • An early example of a Book of Hours produced in Bruges for the English
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.25.3
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1540-1574 C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • Contemporary history) by the monk and historian William of Malmesbury (c. 1090-c. 1143) which was made for
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.25.1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Second half of the twelfth century C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • For the period after the death of Bede in 730, his is "the most important single source for the history
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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
    • Any manuscript which has survived from antiquity is a marvel for this reason alone, and as we explore
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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
    • or De cura pastorali) was composed in the 590s, shortly after he became pope, as a handbook for
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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
    • British Library MS Harley 5272, for example, bears close textual parallels to MS Ll.5.18, containing
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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
    • An early example of a Book of Hours produced in Bruges for the
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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)
    • masterpiece of mid thirteenth-century English illumination, the present manuscript preserves vital evidence for
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Nn.4.1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1519-1529 C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • A Benedictional contains blessings, prayers, and rites intended for
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.25.2
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1540-1574 C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • The manuscript was copied in the sixteenth century for Matthew Parker
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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.
    • The music is all for solo 6- or 7-course renaissance lute, and composers are known for most of the 71
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 10139
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1676
    Language
    English, Latin
    • The volume begins with Remington’s 'designe' for the library and goes on to discuss the use of the library