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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 304
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Book of diseases and medical recipes, arranged according to the part of the body which is diseased.
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 151
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1401–1500
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The manuscript is one of only two that now contain a full and accurate authorial ascription.
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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
    • It is unusual in several respects.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. poet. 32
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second half
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • This section is written in English.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 425
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, middle
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Manuscript containing the Psalter in English verse; shown is an English version of the Pentecost hymn
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 152
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1401–1500
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The text of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is complete, but in a different order than that encountered in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet. e. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1460-1480
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • script with musical notation in a ‘minstrel’s manuscript’, begins with Nowell, nowell, nowell, this is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 309
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    between 1787 and 1792
    Language
    English, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Douce made this copy of the poem from the manuscript which is now MS.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 126
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, first half
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • (Presumably a single quire is lost.).
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 145
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1301–1400
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • MS 145 is also notable for its unusual page design.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce Charters 62
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1450
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • This manuscript is kept in MS. Douce a.1.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 80
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Mid 15th century [1444?]
    Language
    enm
    • Decoration: At the beginning of most books there is a handsome initial
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 82
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    1st half 15th century
    Language
    enm
    • The running title is between the lines at the top and the quire signature is in the box where the lines
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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)
    • The text is a genealogical Biblical history, later becoming a genealogy of the kings of England up to
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    Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 938
    Collection
    Harvard University Library
    Library
    Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Date
    1420
    Language
    enm
    • With this is bound: Treatise on arboriculture; and Religious calendar of Sarum use.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 1
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Mid-15th century
    Language
    enm
    • Heracles) receive the Trojan ambassador9v: The Argonauts put to sea from Troy10v: Jason is
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 98
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Mid 15th century
    Language
    enm
    • Secundo folio: n/a (the first quire is lacking the first and second leaves).
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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)
    • This manuscript, famously known as the Vernon Manuscript, is an impressive book in every respect.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 89
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Beginning 15th century
    Language
    enm
    • There is no prologue to (b).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G e.37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476-1477
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • end (in Latin) not to remove the notice shows that it was meant to be attached to a wall or door: it is