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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gibson 2 and Gibson 6
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • Velvet was still fashionable in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1500–1520
    Language
    Latin, German, Middle Low (North Low Saxon / Eastphalian)
    • Provenance: Made for the Cisterican nunnery of St. Mary and St. Maurice, Medingen.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Holkham misc. 48
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, third quarter
    Language
    Italian
    • Illustrations from the lower margins which illustrate the progress of Dante.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Gr. class. f. 25-27 (P)
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1st century
    Language
    Greek
    • Papyrus rolls from Herculaneum scorched by the heat of the ash when the eruption of Vesuvius overwhelmed
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 17.4
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1526
    Language
    Latin
    • The execution may appear crude, but the style of combining a centre tool (in this case a panel stamp)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. (E) C17:70 Oxford (12)
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [1675]
    Language
    English
    • The Publick Schools. 27. The Publick Library. 28. The Theater. 29. The Physick Garden. 30.
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 98
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1201–1300
    Language
    Latin
    • The decoration includes a series of exceptionally fine historiated initials.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 68
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1717
    • Abuʼalbar (Commentary on the Hebrew translation of Farghānī's compendium of Ptolemy's Almagest)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Ps. Verse 1566 e.1
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1566
    Language
    English
    • appeal to legality on their title-pages; but in 1566 a new confidence was reflected in a change on the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Germ. e. 10
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
    • Latin-German glossary for liturgical texts; translation of the Song of Songs.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Add. A. 189
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1573 (?)
    Language
    Latin, Italian
    • Commissio of Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1570-1577) appointing the 'potestas' of Treviso.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. B. 498
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1187
    • Partial Register of charters of the Priory and Hospital of St.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby Or. 17
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a large medical compendium written in 782 AH/1380 CE in Ephesus for ’Īsá ibn Muḥammad, the Sultan
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    Oxford. Magdalen College, Library, MS Lat 96
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Magdalen College, Library
    Date
    1425–1475
    Language
    Latin
    • The Congesta, part 3, a series of twenty sermons for summer: a temporale from Pentecost to the 3rd Sunday
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Icel. e. 1
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1530
    Language
    Icelandic
    • The code promulgated by Magnus Hakonarson king of Norway 1263-1280.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 403
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Latin
    • This is part of three single-sheet woodcuts on paper, bound at the front of a manuscript collection of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. class. d. 37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1413
    Language
    Latin
    • One of the earliest dated examples of humanistic script.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Hatton 30
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 940-947
    Language
    Latin
    • Last page of a set of commentaries on the Apocalypse with inscription 'Dunstan the abbot gave orders
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. G e.40
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1640
    Language
    English
    • The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm Book.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Inc. e. I9.1489.1
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    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1489
    Language
    Italian
    • Bartholomaeus Fontius, from the Latin version of Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus)