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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 274
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1442-1458
    Language
    Latin
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    • Written in humanistic script by Jacobus Curlus on the order of Alfonso V, fol. 115v.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 320
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1140–1150
    Language
    Anglo-Norman
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    • Bound with a 13th-century copy of the Rule of St Benedict in Norman French
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bywater 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 18 June 1452
    Language
    Latin
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    • In lower margin, coat of arms of the Guidetti of Florence family: paly azure and argent, differenced
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Tanner 190, fols. 207r
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1321-1324
    Language
    Latin
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    • Venetian manuscript map of the crusader city of Acre, in Marino Sanudo, Secreta Fidelium Crucis.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. D’Orville 91
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Blue 8-line initial M(ORTUO PTOLOMEO) with penwork scrolls in blocks of yellow, lilac and red.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 96
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1410
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The first and the last three leaves contain a list of different objects sold to various persons.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 144
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1466
    Language
    Latin
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    • Same type of decoration in lower border on either side of medallion with coat of arms.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barocci 170
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1577
    Language
    Latin, Greek
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    • Leo the Wise
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 223
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1480
    Language
    Latin
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Written for someone connected with the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter at Blandin near Ghent.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 235.5, frame 4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1670
    Language
    English
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    • The Atlantic Ocean between South America and Africa. Mounted on hinged boards.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 144
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1009
    Language
    Arabic
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    • Constellation of Orion as seen on a celestial globe (right) and in the sky (left).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 538
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
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    • Initials in the Eberbach style.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 235.5, frame 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1682
    Language
    English
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    • Portolan chart of the western Indian Ocean, showing much of Africa. Mounted on hinged boards.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 147b
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1724
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    • The text of Libro Primo is to be found in MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 147a.
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 45
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1576–1600
    Language
    Latin
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    • Manuscript copied in table-book format.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 254
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1595
    Language
    English, Persian
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    • Manuscript commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar (1542-1605), containing stories by the Persian poet
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 271
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1226–1227
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The earliest dated Ashkenazi codex to be written in a semi-cursive script (M. Beit-Arie).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. liturg. g. 11
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Coat of arms with Arma Christi (Instruments of the Passion), and Four Symbols of the Evangelists on red
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 199D, frame 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1574
    Language
    English, Latin
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    • Extensively coloured Saxton map of 1574, in 'Atlas of the counties of England and Wales, by C.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Oxford University Archives WPBeta/N/4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    28th February 1327
    Language
    Latin
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    • Inspeximus of previous grants to the University of Oxford. Great seal, in leather bag.