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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 167
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1500 - 1599
    Language
    enm
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    • The text in the Corpus manuscript, produced c. 1500, was once thought to have been a copy of the autograph
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 182
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • >Summary: CCCC MS 182 contains an English version of the Brut chronicle ('Extended Version to
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 197A
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1599
    Language
    lat, eng, frm, enm
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    • CCCC MS 197A now contains sixteenth-century transcripts of King Alfred's letter to bishop Werfrithus
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 88
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    2nd half 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • I schal knowledge to þee. for þou were wroþ to me...; (b) Ego dixi.
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    London. British Library, Add MS 14252
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    enm, lat, xno
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    • Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet. a. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1381–1400
    Language
    Latin, Anglo-Norman, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • extent of its vernacular Middle English texts whilst its plentiful decoration and illumination serve to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second half
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Start of text: epistle to 'Lityl lowys my sone' on the use of the astrolabe.
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Richardson 22
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1425
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • Subjects:Christian life -- Early works to 1800Form / Genre
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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
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    • the encounters of a pilgrim, Will, with various allegorical figures representing the soul's journey to
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 268
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • Summary: CCCC MS 268, dating to c. 1450, contains a collection of Middle English
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius A XII
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, enm
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    • abbey of Bury St Edmunds. ff. 196r-197v: William de Montibus (d. 1213), Poeniteas Cito (I Urge You to
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 440
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1425
    Language
    enm
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    • It is a copy of the later text of the Wycliffite Gospels and was dated to about 1430 by Forshall and
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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
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    • contemporary and later, and cross references are frequent and indicate that the cartulary was designed to
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 2
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Mid-15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • Lines of texts written in red colour introduce headings to mark the beginning of one section of
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 84
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 14th/beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • strong>: Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1897 from Henry Yates Thompson, and later transferred to
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Claudius E III
    Collection
    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
    Library
    London. British Library
    Language
    lat, xno, enm
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    • The third part contains the Opus Chronicorum (Chronicle Work) attributed to William Rishanger (b. 1250
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 78
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    lat, enm
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    • encyclopaedia derived from a large number of classical and medieval sources and De uiris claris is dedicated to
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 253
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1000 - 1099
    Language
    lat, enm
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    • This twelfth-century manuscript contains copies of Augustine, Confessiones, and the guide to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 893
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500), Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • The sun holds two keys and the moon one (to the doors above?).
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 298
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1500 - 1525
    Language
    lat, eng, fre, enm
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    • verse written in 1497 by Laurence Wade OSB.The second part contains a collection of documents relating to