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Manuscripts
Aberystwyth
National Library of Wales, MS Peniarth 356B
Cambridge
Corpus Christi College, MS 41
Corpus Christi College, MS 140
St John’s College, MS E.34 (137)
Trinity College, MS B.14.39
University Library, MS Ff.1.5
Glasgow
University Library, Hunter MS 197
London
British Library, Additional MS 29729
British Library, Arundel MS 57
British Library, Cotton Nero MS D. iv
British Library, Cotton Otho MS C.i(1)
British Library, Cotton Vitellius MS E.xviii
British Library, Harley MS 1205
British Library, Lansdowne MS 348
British Library, Royal MS 17 A.xxvii
Wellcome Collection, MS 405
Manchester
John Rylands Library, MS Eng. 51
New York
Pierpont Morgan Library, Glazier MS 39
Oxford
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Bodleian Library, MS Fairfax 16
Bodleian Library, MS. Gough Liturg. 19
Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121
Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. Poet. 138
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Library, MS Codex 196
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