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MS. Add. C. 29

Contents:
Guillaume de Deguilleville, Pèlerinages; France, c. 1400

MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1

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‘Codex Mendoza’, etc.; A: Mexico, c. 1541 (?); B: England, early 17th century (?)

MS. Arch. Selden. A. 2

Contents:
Codex Selden (Codex Añute): Mixtec pictorial manuscript (ñee ñuhu)

MS. Arch. Selden. B. 54

Contents:
Gregory Nazianzen — 11th century, third quarter; Byzantine, Constantinople (?)
Lectionary — 14th century; Byzantine, Constantinople (?)

MS. Ashmole 304

Contents:
Texts on prognostication; England (St Albans), before 1259

MS. Ashmole 399

Contents:
Texts and illustrations relating to medicine, prognostication and arithmetic; England, late 13th-early 14th century

MS. Ashmole 1291

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Flemish (probably Bruges), with inserted miniatures (Dutch, Brabant?); 15th century, second quarter

MS. Ashmole 1431

Contents:
Herbal with Old English glosses; St Augustine’s, Canterbury, 1070s × 1090s

MS. Ashmole 1511

Contents:
Bestiary ('The Ashmole Bestiary'); England, early 13th century

MS. Auct. D. 2. 17

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Gospels with catenae — 12th century, first half; Byzantine, Constantinople (?), or Greece (?)

MS. Auct. D. 2. 19

Contents:
The Macregol or Rushworth Gospels; Ireland (Birr), before 822

MS. Auct. D. 4. 17

Contents:
Apocalypse picture book; England, c. 1255-60

MS. Auct. D. inf. 2. 11

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, Calendar, etc. — c. 1440–50; French

MS. Auct. D. inf. 2. 21

Contents:
Gospels — 13th century, end; Byzantine, Constantinople (?)

MS. Auct. E. 5. 11

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Gospels — 10th century, first half; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. Auct. F. 2. 13

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Terence — 12th century, middle; English, St. Albans

MS. Auct. F. 4. 32

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‘St Dunstan's Classbook’: four manuscripts written 9th-11th century in Brittany, Wales and England

MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 10

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New Testament — 12th century, beginning; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. Auct. T. inf. 2. 7

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Gospel Lectionary — 12th century, first quarter and 12th century, middle; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. Barocci 15

Contents:
Psalter — 1105; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. Barocci 17

Contents:
Pseudo-Callisthenes 13th cent.

MS. Barocci 29

Contents:
Four Gospels — 1296–1318; Byzantine, Epiros

MS. Barocci 31

Contents:
Four Gospels — 13th century, end; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. Barocci 93

Contents:
Ps.-Hippolytus — 16th century, second quarter; Crete (?)

MS. Barocci 145

Contents:
Prophecies, Homilies, etc. — Multiple dates; Italian, Venice

MS. Barocci 169

Contents:
Eutocius of Ascalon, Johannes Pediasimus, etc. — 16th century; Italian

MS. Barocci 170

Contents:
Leo the Wise — 1577; Italian, Venice (?)

MS. Barocci 230

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Symeon Metaphrastes and others — 11th century, third quarter; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. Bodl. 130

Contents:
Ps.-Apuleius, Ps.-Dioscorides — 11th century, end; England, Bury St. Edmunds
Sextus Placitus — 11th century, end; England, Bury St. Edmunds

MS. Bodl. 270B

Contents:
Bible moralisée — 13th century, middle; French, Paris

MS. Bodl. 352

Contents:
Haimo of Auxerre, Commentary on Revelation, etc., with Apocalypse miniatures; Germany (south-west), mid-12th century

MS. Bodl. 401

Contents:
Apocalypse with commentary (French prose apocalypse) — 14th century, middle; English

MS. Bodl. 646

Contents:
Basinio de' Basini of Parma — c. 1460; Italy, Padua

MS. Bodl. 758

Contents:
Michael de Massa, etc. — 1405; English, Norfolk, Ingham

MS. Bodl. 764

Contents:
Bestiary, Adam names the animals, etc. — 1240s; English

MS. Bodl. 850

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Book of Hours, Use of Sarum — 15th century, third quarter; English

MS. Bodl. 851

Contents:
Walter Map, De nugis curialium; Latin poetry; Piers Plowman (Z- and C-texts); England, 14th century, late, or 15th century,…

MS. Bodl. 972

Contents:
Arnold von Harff, Reisebericht; Germany, 1554

MS. Bodl. Rolls 1

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'Ripley Scroll' — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 60

Contents:
Gospels ('The Ranshofen Gospels') — 1178 or before; Austria, Salzburg

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 274

Contents:
Vegetius — 1442 or 1445 × 1458; Italian, Naples

MS. Canon. Gr. 36

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Gospels — c. 1300; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. Canon. Gr. 38

Contents:
Gospels — 14th century, middle; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. Canon. Gr. 110

Contents:
Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles — 10th century, middle; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. Canon. Gr. 112

Contents:
Gospels — 14th century, end; Greek (?)

MS. Canon. Gr. 122

Contents:
Gospels ('Gospels of Gavril'), Gospel of Matthew preceded by a list of chapters with indications of parallel passages and the prefaces of Theophylact, Archbishop of Bulgaria, etc. — 1429; Moldavia (Romania), Neamţ, Orthodox monastery

MS. Canon. Ital. 85

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Boccaccio, Filocolo; Italy (probably Mantua), c. 1464

MS. Canon. Ital. 108

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Dante — 14th century, second half; Italian, South

MS. Canon. Ital. 109

Contents:
Dante — c. 1400; Italian, Bologna (?)

MS. Canon. Ital. 115

Contents:
Dante, Jacopo della Lana, etc. — 15th century, beginning (c. 1422); Italian, Venice or area

MS. Canon. Misc. 378

Contents:
Notitia dignitatum, etc.; Switzerland (Basel), 1436

MS. Cromwell 11

Contents:
Liturgical collection — 1225; Byzantine, Epiros

MS. Cromwell 16

Contents:
Gospels — 10th century, middle and end; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. Digby 83

Contents:
Opusculum de ratione spere; England, 12th century, middle

MSS. Douce 5-6

Contents:
Portable Psalter; Flanders (Ghent), 14th century, first half (c. 1320-30)

MS. Douce 18

Contents:
Priest's vade medum including a psalter; English, c. 1433–1475?

MS. Douce 29

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Eleanora Gonzaga'); Italy, Rome, 1509 × 1538 (before 1527 (?) or c. 1535-7 (?))

MS. Douce 40

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 1527–28; Polish, Cracow

MS. Douce 62

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, Calendar in French, etc. — 15th century, early; French, Paris

MS. Douce 79

Contents:
André le Moine, etc. — 1320s; English, probably London

MS. Douce 85

Contents:
John of Seville, Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum de regimine sanitatis (recension of Thomas of Cantimpré); Thomas of…

MS. Douce 93

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Calendar (Utrecht), etc. — Multiple dates; Dutch, Utrecht

MS. Douce 104

Contents:
Illustrated Piers Plowman; Ireland, 1427–28

MS. Douce 112

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 16th century, beginning; Flemish, Bruges or Ghent

MS. Douce 134

Contents:
Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur — c. 1450–1470 (before 1463?); French

MS. Douce 180

Contents:
Apocalypse with commentaries ('The Douce Apocalypse'); England (?Westminster), c. 1265–1270

MS. Douce 185

Contents:
Homiliary; Germany (Westphalia), 14th century, first quarter, with additions

MS. Douce 186

Contents:
Michael Ott, Kriegsregiment, etc.; southern Germany, c. 1530

MS. Douce 195

Contents:
Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung — 15th century, end; France

MSS. Douce 219-20

Contents:
Book of Hours, Dominican Use ('The Hours of Engelbert of Nassau')

MS. Douce 231

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum — 14th century, second quarter (?) (c. 1325–30 (?)); England

MS. Douce 248

Contents:
Book of Hours in Middle Dutch; Delft, mid-15th century

MS. Douce 292

Contents:
Gospel of St. Matthew, Gospel of St. Mark — 11th century, second half (c. 1060 (?)); Flemish, Liège, or German, Lorsch (for full discussion see the description at Bibliotheca Laureshamensis)

MS. Douce 308

Contents:
Jacques de Longuyon — 14th century, first quarter; French, Metz (?)
Richard de Fournival — 14th century, first quarter; French, Metz (?)
Jacques Bretel, etc. — 14th century, first quarter; French, Metz (?)
Huon de Mery — 14th century, first quarter; French, Metz (?)

MS. Douce 311 adds. 1

Contents:
Elevation of the Host, miniature from the Hours of Louis Quarré

MS. Douce 311 adds. 2

Contents:
Adoration of the Magi, miniature from the Hours of Louis Quarré

MS. Douce 313

Contents:
Missal (Franciscan) — 14th century, middle; French

MS. Douce 332

Contents:
Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meung, etc. — 15th century; French

MS. Douce 374

Contents:
Jean Miélot — c. 1456 (old style, 1457 new style); Flemish

MS. Douce 390

Contents:
Portolan charts ('The Douce Atlas'); Venice, early 15th century

MS. E. D. Clarke 6

Contents:
Gospels — c. 1270–1280; Byzantine, Constantinople (?)

MS. E. D. Clarke 10

Contents:
Gospels — 11th century, fourth quarter; Byzantine, Constantinople

MS. e Mus. 42

Contents:
Genealogy of the Kings of England to 1461 — c. 1467–1469; English

MS. Eng. poet. a. 1

Contents:
‘The Vernon Manuscript’: poetry and prose in Middle English and Anglo-Norman, c. 1390–1400; England (West Midlands?)

Exeter College MS. 46

Contents:
Psalterium; England, c. 1340–55

MS. Fairfax 3

Contents:
John Gower, Confessio Amantis and other poems in Latin and French; England, late 14th or early 15th century

MS. Fairfax 16

Contents:
Miscellany of poetry by Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and other writers

MS. Germ. d. 1

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments: A Der Heilegen Leben; Germany, 15th century. B Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae;…

MS. Germ. e. 22

Contents:
Eucharistic prayers and devotional texts

MS. Germ. g. 1

Contents:
Prayer book with calendar and Short Hours of the Cross, in German; Germany (Aachen), 1495

MS. Gough Gen. Top. 16

Contents:
Map of Great Britain ('The Gough Map') — 14th century, third quarter (c. 1360); English

MS. Gough Liturg. 3

Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, Hours and prayers, etc. — 15th century, late; English , London (?)

MS. Gr. th. f. 1

Contents:
Menologion with miniatures: cycle for the Great Feasts of scenes from the Lives of Christ and the Virgin; pictorial calendar of saints, September to August; cycle for St. Demetrios — 1322–1340; Greek, Thessalonike

MS. Holkham Gr. 115

Contents:
Gospels — Late 11th - mid 12th century; Constantinople

MS. Holkham misc. 48

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Dante, etc. — 14th century, third quarter; Italian, North (?), Genoa (?)

MS. Holkham misc. 49

Contents:
Boccaccio — 1467 (or slightly earlier); Italian, Ferrara

MS. Junius 11

Contents:
The Junius or Caedmon manuscript

MS. Lat. liturg. f. 2

Contents:
Bridget of Sweden, etc. — 14th century, late - 15th century, early; France or Flanders, with additions in England

MS. Lat. th. c. 2 (R)

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Hugh of St. Victor — 13th century, middle; English

MS. Laud Gr. 3

Contents:
Gospels — 1286; Byzantine, Trebizond (?)