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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 1187
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1680–1708
    Language
    Latin, English, French
    • Also includes papers unrelated to Talbot and his project.
    • England and Netherlands
    • , description and measurement of musical instruments, together with sections on music history and theory
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gibson 2 and Gibson 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • England and Netherlands
    • Velvet was still fashionable in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Savile B 3-6 and Savile B 8-12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    English
    • England and Netherlands
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 6 and MS. Canon. Liturg. 237
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • England and Netherlands
    • Calendar and astrological treatise Roman Diurnal.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: Offprints and pamphlets: Z 1447
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [1796?]
    Language
    English, Latin
    • this British bot-fly species in all its stages, written as an aid to identification for entomologists and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G b.6 (formerly Douce 310)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Latin
    • Plinius Secundus, Caius, 23-79, also known as Pliny the Elder
    • Natural History (also known as 'Douce Pliny').
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 55
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • England and Netherlands
    • Text: recipes for 'Quinces stued' and 'Partridge stuede'. Strips of vellum cut out in lower margin.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 287
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
    • William FitzStephen and other authors
    • England and Netherlands
    • Douce 330. (12th and 13th centuries) also come from its library.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: 70 c. 124
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1770
    Language
    English, French
    • White and Sons
    • A selection of unusual, and mainly previously unrecorded insects, giving details of size, shape, pattern
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: 70 c. 124
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1773
    Language
    English, French
    • White and Sons
    • A selection of unusual, and mainly previously unrecorded insects, giving details of size, shape, pattern
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: 70 c. 124
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1782
    Language
    English, French
    • White and Sons
    • A selection of unusual, and mainly previously unrecorded insects, giving details of size, shape, pattern
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 678
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • 260-day calendarial cycle ('tonalpohualli') illustrated with appropriate rituals and offerings used in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce L 186
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Dutch
    • A Dutch bookbinder's workshop, c. 1700 This detailed engraving of a bookbinder's shop placed above a
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 41.18
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1785
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, 65 BC-8 BC, also known as Horace
    • England and Netherlands
    • took out a patent in 1785 for the process of rendering vellum transparent by soaking it in pearl ash and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 180
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, early
    Language
    English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
    • Alfred, 848/9-899, King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons; also known as 'the Great'
    • England and Netherlands
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: AL YZ/2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1702
    Language
    English
    • A study of the natural history of the Earth and its minerals, and the effects of the universal deluge
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 323 (printed bifolium)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1692–1695
    Language
    English
    • Printed bifolium A2.3 and bifolium A1.4 placed between pages 18-19 and pages 22-23, respectively (third
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan d. 4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1455
    Language
    Latin
    • Mantua and Florence
    • identifiable as Ser Giovanni da Stia, a Florentine notary who copied many dated manuscripts between about 1429 and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. C17:48 (9)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1635
    Language
    English
    • Estate plan showing strip farming landscapeEach strip is identified by number, and much of this
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 851
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1666
    Language
    English
    • England and Netherlands
    • Part of three volumes compiled and written by Elias Ashmole (see also MSS.