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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 83
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    End 14th/beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • strong>Acquisition: Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1897 from , and later transferred to
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 81
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    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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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 63
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    2nd half 15th century
    Language
    enm
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    • There is scuffing and damage to the corners of the board.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 32
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1399
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • The translation and commentary are a unique Middle English version, dating to the late fourteenth century
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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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    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 337
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1200 - 1299
    Language
    lat, enm
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    • Summary: CCCC MS 337, dating to the fourteenth century, contains two main texts.
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 79
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1499
    Language
    lat, enm
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    • Summary: CCCC MS 79, dating from c. 1400 and c. 1410, is the most elaborate decorated Pontifical to
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 282
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1375 - 1399
    Language
    enm, lat
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    • strong>Note: The next paragraphincipit: (3) Holi writ haþ a liknesse to
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 434
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1375 - 1399
    Language
    enm
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    • strong>CCCC MS 434 opens with a dialogue between a brother and sister regarding the sister's desire to
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 444
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1290 - 1310
    Language
    enm
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    • It is considered to be in an East Midlands dialect and is the earliest English paraphrase from the Historia
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    San Marino. The Huntington Library, HM 142
    Collection
    Huntington Digital Library
    Library
    The Huntington Library
    Date
    between 1450 and 1467
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500) [enm], Latin [lat]
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    • f. 14r-v: Pater noster, Ave Maria and Credo. 5. ff. 15-16: [Litany in verse]. 6. f. 16r-v: [Prayer to
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 410
    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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    • It serves as a remarkable witness to the diversity of both practical and theoretical treatises available
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 357
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1300 - 1525
    Language
    eng, lat, enm
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    • The name 'Robert Pen' inscribed in the manuscript probably refers to a Gentleman of the Royal Chapel
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet. a. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1390-1400
    Language
    Anglo-Norman, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • By two hands, the first, fols. 105 ff., 265, an English parallel to the 'Ci nous dit' group of Flemish
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 938
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1420
    Language
    enm
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    • Summary:Translation of Trivet's chronicle in French dedicated to "Mary the
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 387
    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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    • It belonged to the Augustinian Abbey of Lessness (Kent).
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 294
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1100 - 1199
    Language
    lat, enm
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    • thirteenth-century manuscript contains various works by Hugh of Saint-Victor (d. 1141), as well as texts attributed to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. e Musaeo 42
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1467-1469
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • The text is a genealogical Biblical history, later becoming a genealogy of the kings of England up to
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    Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 147
    Collection
    Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
    Library
    UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
    Date
    1400 - 1499
    Language
    enm
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    • Summary: MS 147, dating to c. 1410-1430, contains the 'Later Version' of the Lollard