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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
    • William was well-connected and well-informed, even, on occasion, an eyewitness to the events he describes
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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
    • It opens with the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin, details the journeys of European crusaders to the East
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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
    • by Chaucer in the 13th century, and John Walton in the beginning of the 14th century are a testament to
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Collect. Admin. 4
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    ca.1420-1622 C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • The two Proctors were appointed annually from early in the University's existence to represent the interests
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add.8844
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    c. 1595
    • -1635), secretary and later envoy to James I and then Charles I at the Brussels Court of Archduke Albert
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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
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.6.32
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    850-1000 C.E.
    Language
    Latin, with additions in Gaelic (or Middle Irish)
    • ) is a Gospel Book written in a hand that was current in the period c. 850-1000 and generally dated to
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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 encounters of a pilgrim, Will, with various allegorical figures representing the soul's journey to
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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
    • contemporary and later, and cross references are frequent and indicate that the cartulary was designed to
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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
    • It is possible that this book was commissioned for Denny, or that it was given to the abbey before Marie's
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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 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
    • Lorris c. 1230 and around 1275, Jean de Meun composed a continuation which adds more than 17,000 lines to
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.13.27
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    First half of the 16th century C.E. (c. 1524-1533)
    • Lastly, the book provides five compositions for the musical accompaniment to the mass: two by Fayrfax