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88
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2,575
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1,094
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503
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427
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376
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361
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219
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112
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104
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98
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205
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241
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191
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51
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41
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5
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1,287
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972
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316
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Brasenose College
13
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25
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2
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5
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3
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3
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7
St John's College
63
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Brasenose College MSS.
13
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3
Exeter College MSS.
25
Hertford College MSS.
2
Jesus College MSS.
5
Lady Margaret Hall Borough MSS.
3
Lincoln College MSS.
3
MSS. Add. (Additional) A
14
MSS. Add. (Additional) B
5
MSS. Add. (Additional) C
27
MSS. Add. (Additional) D
7
MSS. Add. (Additional) E
1
MSS. Arch. Selden. (Archivum Seldenianum)
14
MSS. Ash. (Ashmole) Rolls
1
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50
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1
MSS. Auct. D. (Auctarium D.)
65
MSS. Auct. E. (Auctarium E.)
23
MSS. Auct. F. (Auctarium F.)
58
MSS. Auct. T. (Auctarium T.)
48
MSS. Barlow
17
MSS. Barocci
6
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265
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4
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3
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7
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1
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49
MSS. Canon. Class. Lat. (Canonici Latin Classical)
146
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22
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54
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120
MSS. Canon. Misc. (Canonici Miscellaneous)
104
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81
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12
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59
MSS. Digby
52
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2
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156
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1
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2
MSS. E. D. Clarke
9
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1
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1
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1
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6
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1
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6
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16
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2
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30
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1
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12
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1
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2
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3
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5
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16
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70
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25
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28
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3
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65
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212
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19
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13
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5
MSS. Montagu
7
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1
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24
MSS. Rawl. B (Rawlinson B)
18
MSS. Rawl. C (Rawlinson C)
73
MSS. Rawl. D (Rawlinson D)
17
MSS. Rawl. G. (Rawlinson G)
59
MSS. Rawl. Q (Rawlinson Q)
3
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102
MSS. Rawl. poet. (Rawlinson poetry)
7
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11
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4
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19
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3
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17
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6
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24
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2
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1
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6
St John's College MSS
63
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MS. Add. A. 7
Contents:
Antidotarium Nicolai — 14th century, first half; Italian
Medical treatise (antidotary) — 12th century, first half; Italian
Roger de Baron — 13th or 14th century; Italian
MS. Add. A. 8
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Richard of St. Victor — 15th century, second quarter; Italy, Venice (?)
MS. Add. A. 15
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Petrarch — c. 1470–1480; Italy, Venice
MS. Add. A. 22
Contents:
Calendar — 15th century; French
Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung — c. 1300; French
Jean de Meung — 14th century, second half; French
MS. Add. A. 46
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Calendar from a Psalter — 13th century, third quarter; Flemish, Liège
MS. Add. A. 100
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Vita Sancti Honorati archiepiscopi Arelatensis — 1449; French, Avignon
MS. Add. A. 107
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Calendar, Statutes of England (statuta vetera) — c. 1330; English
MS. Add. A. 165
Contents:
Juvenal, Persius, etc. — 1475; Italian
MS. Add. A. 170
Contents:
Aesopus moralisatus — 15th century, first half; Italian
MS. Add. A. 173
Contents:
Gregorian fused Sacramentary — 9th century, second half; French
MS. Add. A. 174
Contents:
Commissio of the Procurators of St. Mark — after 1473; Italian, Venice
MS. Add. A. 185
Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Nantes — c. 1440; French, Nantes
MS. Add. A. 188
Contents:
Lectionary/Missal; western Germany, 12th century, second quarter
MS. Add. A. 196
Contents:
'Hulderichus Hispanius, episcopus de Toledo' — 1590; English
MS. Add. B. 54
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Horace, etc. — 1454; Italian, Siena (?)
MS. Add. B. 55
Contents:
Propertius — 15th century, middle; Italian Lombardy
MS. Add. B. 59
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Onosander — 1457–62; Italian Venice
MS. Add. B. 110
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Apicius — 15th century, second half; Italian, Naples or Rome (?)
MS. Add. B. 111
Contents:
Persius — 15th century, third quarter; Italian, Ferrara (?)
MS. Add. C. 12
Contents:
Albertano da Brescia, etc. — 15th century, beginning; Italian
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