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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)
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    • William Ballard (King of Arms)
    • England and Netherlands
    • This manuscript was probably sent by Ballard to North Wales soon after the coronation.
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2834
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and tables of contents, and ends with the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, D III 22
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 1st quarter of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This manuscript contains the Floretum medicinae, a work of medical excerpts, divided into 25 books.
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 10851
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    XIe siècle (deuxième tiers)
    Language
    latin
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Priory of St. Arnoul (France) (?)
    • Viré, Leipzig : Teubner, 1992 ; Lynn Thorndike, Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4751
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Gerald of Wales
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • This manuscript contains a bestiary from the 'second family' of bestiaries (see James, The Bestiary (
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce S 528
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1540
    Language
    Latin
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    • The greatest collector of the Renaissance? French (Paris), mid 16th-century.
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    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 18
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Hermetschwil. Benediktinerinnenkloster
    Date
    12th century, 13th century, late 12th/early 13th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • This manuscript was made for the female part of the double monastery of Muri since the prayers feature
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1452B
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    17th century, 1691
    Language
    Latin
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    • It was found in 1846 among the books of St. Gall friar Notker Hager († 1836).
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 24
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    ita
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    • Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Notes:The novella Hippolyto e Lionora is found in editions of Leon Battista
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 63
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1420-1430
    Language
    Latin
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    • Mantua and Florence
    • Ex-libris of the Badia of Florence.The vine-stem initial is here shaded in green.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 24193
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
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    • Venantius Fortunatus, c 535-600, Bishop of Poitiers
    • This manuscript contains the collection of poems ( Carmina ) of Venantius Fortunatus (d. after 600),
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 984
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Language
    lat
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • No. 1 is separately mounted; nos. 2 and 3 are mounted together.
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais, S 103
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais
    Date
    15th century, middle of the 15th century
    Language
    Latin, French
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    • This manuscript is the only textual witness of this culinary treatise written in the year 1420 by Maître
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 862
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    9th century, second half of the 9th century
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    • Part 2 of the commentary by the late Roman grammarian Servius (ca. 400) on the works of Virgil, including
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    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais, S 97
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Sion/Sitten. Médiathèque Valais
    Date
    15th century, 1460-1465
    Language
    Latin
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    • This manuscript from the library of Walter Supersaxo (ca. 1402-1482), Bishop of Sion, and of his son
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Reggio 46
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476–1500
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Contents: Abraham ben Meïr ibn Ezra, Sefer ha-ibur (The Book of Intercalation) (ff. 1v-7v).
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    Dijon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 584
    Collection
    Arca
    Library
    Bibliothèque municipale de Dijon
    Date
    12e s.
    Language
    latin
    Digitisation type
    partiel
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    • John the Deacon of Rome, c 825-c 880, Deacon of Rome; also known as Johannes Hymonides
    • Smaragdus, Abbot of St. Mihiel, fl. 809-819
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, AR I 4
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, 14th century, 1482-1527
    Language
    Latin
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    • Carthusian Monastery of Basel
    • In 1482 Jakob Lauber, the librarian at the time, began to compile a loans register for the holdings of
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 280
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1299
    Language
    lat
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    • Henry of Huntingdon, c 1088–c 1157, Archdeacon of Huntingdon
    • Summary: CCCC MS 280 contains a copy of the text of the Historia Anglorum of Henry
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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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    • England and Netherlands
    • : Docket title: Hudson's Bay Company's petition to Her Ma.ty enclosed in their letter of