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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.6.8
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1st quarter of the 15th century C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • The Calendar lists Sts Donatian, Judoc, Basil and Eligius and the Litany includes 'S. Gheertrudis'.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.6.2
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Late 14th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • manuscripts of this period illuminated in the same style by the circle of the Master of the Pink Baldachins, some
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Peterhouse 75.I
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    c. 1393
    Language
    Middle English, Latin
    • Troilus and Criseyde.
    • England and Netherlands
    • text-align: justify;'> John Westwyk Because of the autograph nature of the text, some
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.4.17
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    First quarter of the 14th Century C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • England, Winchester and East Anglia
    • Some saints' names featuring in the calendar with which the book opens suggest that it may have been
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.16
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    mid-late 730s C.E.
    Language
    Latin, Old English
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Its central theme is the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to Christianity and the establishment
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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
    • Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193
    • England and Netherlands
    • text-align: justify;'>A thirteenth-century manuscript containing two Latin prose crusade chronicles and
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.1.24
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    8th century C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • It is incomplete, containing most of the Gospels of Luke (from 1:15 to the end) and John (1:18 to 20:
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.24
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    10th century C.E.
    Language
    Greek, Latin and Greek
    • Only a tiny number went to the lengths that Grosseteste did to learn Greek with the aim of obtaining,
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.25.1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Second half of the twelfth century C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • England and Netherlands
    • William saw himself as the successor to Bede, drawing on both Anglo-Saxon and Norman sources and traditions
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.17.1
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1180-1230 C.E.
    Language
    Latin, Latin and Anglo-Norman, Latin with Anglo-Norman
    • England and Netherlands
    • The four bifolia were already holed, torn, and creased; some of the holes were re-sewn before use.
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.27
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1100-1200, 1200-1500
    Language
    Latin, Old English
    • Some initials, such as those to the opening of Gildas’ De excidio on page
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ll.1.10
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    ninth century, (c. 820-840 C.E.)
    Language
    Latin, Old English
    • central section, part II (fols 2-99), is a ninth-century prayerbook written in principally in Latin with some
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.4.42
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    after c. 850 with glosses added between the latter half of the ninth century and the early eleventh century
    Language
    Old Welsh, Latin, Latin with glosses in Latin, Old Welsh and Old Irish, Latin encoded in Greek letters
    • was responsible for adding both of the pieces of Welsh verse included in the manuscript, as well as some
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ee.4.24
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1280-1290
    Language
    Latin, Latin and Norman French in two columns
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • Significant due to the extent and nature of its illustrative programme
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Add.6858
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    c.1513 C.E.
    Language
    Latin
    • In 1513, while he was at Cambridge, Erasmus dedicated to Henry VIII
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Nn.3.2
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    1467-68 C.E.
    Language
    French and Latin
    • French, and in both prose and verse form, of an elite circle of three intellectual luminaries of fifteenth-century
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Nn.2.41
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Late 4th/early 5th Century C.E.
    Language
    Greek and Latin
    • Although in the past century some remarkable papyrus manuscripts have been recovered from the sands of
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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
    • England and Netherlands
    • chronicles the kings of the Britons from the foundation of the kingdom of Britain by the Trojan Brutus to
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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
    • England and Netherlands
    • Contains a sixteenth-century copy of the Historia novella (Contemporary history) by the monk and
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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