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Cum me apposuissetis ad ignem magnum venit ad me valde pulcra domina et sedit inter me et ignem, et ait mihi lingua anglicana deosculans me quamdiu eram iuxta ignem, fili hac nocte venies ad patrem tuum et matrem, et gaudebis cum eis.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Note 144: London, BL Harley 957, fol. 20v: "cui puer lingua anglicana, potabo ego domine, et noli me interficere pro amore sancte marie de radecliue." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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It should be noticed that the title "Laurea anglicana" is not mentioned in the original edition of 1510, but is apparently due to the exuberance of enthusiasm of the editor of the later edition, whose taste seems to have been more flamboyant.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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The Globe Artichoke (_Cinara maxima anglicana_) of our kitchen gardens, when boiled and brought to table, has a middle pulp which is eaten as well as the soft delicate pulp at the base of each prickly floret.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 handy and it sure looks a lot like her sample of 13th-century cursiva anglicana to me, and indeed 1216 is the date that their examinations have settled on though I'm not going to pretend that I can read that off the JPEG myself.
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