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The MSS. in the above list include only the Latin MSS. found in British Libraries, and cited at pp. 1–1306 of this Dictionary. Many other MSS. have been examined at the British Museum, the. Bodleian, Cambridge, Durham, Lambeth, Lincoln, York, &c., which are not included in this list because they are mostly later than 1200, and did not give results of sufficient importance to be referred to in the notes on the individual hymns. The references to H. pt. ii. mean that the MSS. so marked are only mentioned in Pt. ii. of the article Hymnarium, and in these cases the approximate dates of the MSS. are also given. In other cases the references in this work indicate the pages where concise descriptions of the various MSS. will be found.

In regard to the Latin MSS. it most be noted that the earliest and best only are cited in the body of the Dictionary, so that if e.g. a hymn is found