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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 70
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This manuscript of English origin contains the Historia Regum Britannie by Geoffrey of Monmouth (ca.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 33241
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • The work was composed by a Flemish monk at Emma's behest.
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    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 01053
    Collection
    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. University of Toronto Libraries
    Library
    Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
    Date
    ca. 1316-ca. 1422
    Language
    Latin
    • Contains a liturgical calendar of the saints for England.
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    Durham. Cathedral Library, MS. B.IV.34
    Collection
    Durham University and Cathedral Library
    Library
    Durham. Cathedral Library
    Date
    later 14th century, [lated 15th century], [later 14th century], [about 1400]
    Language
    Latin
    • composite manuscript made up of three distinct parts (Verses on monastic antiphons; Meditations of the
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.25.5
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Fourteenth century C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • This enormously popular pseudo-historical work, written in 1136, chronicles the kings of the Britons
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 523
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1518-1520
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • The earliest English gold-tooled binding? English, c. 1519.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ash. Rolls 38
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1310 and later
    Language
    Anglo-Norman
    • Illustrated genealogy of the Kings of England to Edward II (later continued to Richard II).
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    London. British Library, Lansdowne MS 453
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • This 12th-century English manuscript contains the Bible (from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Psalms
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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, Harley MS 82
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, grc
    • The martyrology was written in the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 196
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
    • The lack of outlines, except of the British islands and of the squiggle that represents the Red Sea and
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 8 E IV
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat
    • from the Opuscula and the Dictiones.
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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
    • Contains a sixteenth-century copy of the Historia novella (
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. gall. 16
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    14. Jh., 1303 - 1308
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/fro, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/lat
    • Written for the diocese of York, probably in the workshop of the Augustinian priory near Nottingham (
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Tanner 67
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1638
    Language
    English
    • A petition submitted to Archbishop Laud in 1638 by the milliners of the Royal Exchange on behalf of the
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Nero A VII
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, sga
    • The first part (ff. 1-112) was produced in England, probably at Rochester, or Normandy in the last quarter
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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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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho A VI
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    ang, lat
    • This composite manuscript contains two parts, which may have been bound together in the 17th century.Contents
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 720
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
    • Bearded man stands on the back of a crouching figure, the former strikes the forehead of the latter with
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 41.18
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1785
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • Members of the Edwards family took out a patent in 1785 for the process of rendering vellum transparent