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1,335
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326
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Brasenose College MSS.
13
Christ Church MSS.
3
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Exeter College MSS.
25
Hertford College MSS.
2
Jesus College MSS.
5
Lady Margaret Hall Borough MSS.
3
Lincoln College MSS.
4
MSS. Add. (Additional) A
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MSS. Add. (Additional) C
27
MSS. Add. (Additional) D
7
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1
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50
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65
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23
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58
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17
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49
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61
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59
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102
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MS. Add. A. 7
Contents:
Antidotarium Nicolai, A glossary of medicinal plants, etc. — 14th century, first half; Italy
Medical treatise (antidotary) — 12th century, first half; Italy
Roger de Baron, etc. — 13th or 14th century; Italy
MS. Add. A. 8
Contents:
Richard of St. Victor — 15th century, second quarter; Italy, Venice (?)
MS. Add. A. 15
Contents:
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
Contents:
Calendar from a Psalter — 13th century, third quarter; Flanders, Liège
MS. Add. A. 100
Contents:
Vita Sancti Honorati archiepiscopi Arelatensis — 1449; French, Avignon
MS. Add. A. 107
Contents:
Calendar, Statutes of England (statuta vetera) — c. 1330; English
MS. Add. A. 165
Contents:
Juvenal, Persius, etc. — 1475; Italian
MS. Add. A. 170
Contents:
Gualterus Anglicus (attrib.), etc. — 15th century, first half; Italy
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; Italy, 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', etc. — 1590; England
MS. Add. B. 54
Contents:
Horace, etc. — 1454; Italian, Siena (?)
MS. Add. B. 55
Contents:
Propertius — 15th century, middle; Italian Lombardy
MS. Add. B. 59
Contents:
Onosander — 1457–62; Italian Venice
MS. Add. B. 110
Contents:
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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