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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 5Q 4.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1478
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Note bevelling of the boards along the hinges and the simple use of one tool.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lyell 88
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
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    • Interlacing ink-drawn initial framed in red with background in pale yellow and red inside and blue outside
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 2.6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1762
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • Embroidered bead binding utilising blue and white beads.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 281
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1340
    Language
    Latin
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • Related to the style and the script of the Durandus written by the English scribe William of Kirkby in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Holkham misc. 51
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1490
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
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    • with the quartered arms of both families), perhaps Gilles, Seigneur de Berlaimont, Hierges, Péruwelz, and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arm. d. 24
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1734–1736
    Language
    Classical Armenian
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    • Patmagrut‘iwn anc‘ic‘n iwroc‘ ew Natr-Šahin Parsic‘ (History of his Times and Nadir, Shah of Persia)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barocci 48
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1401–1500
    Language
    Greek
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    • Rhetorical and theological texts.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 712
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    after 1330
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • England and Netherlands
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 24.14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1546
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Brown goatskin, blocked in gold with an architectonic design and ESPOYR.ME.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 90.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1577
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Lacquered brown goatskin over pasteboards, with sunken central centrepiece and side compartments in Oriental
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. D’Orville 97
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, beginning (before 1513)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Made for Konrad Peutinger, with some headings and corrections in his hand.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. K 3.3a
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1490-1495, 18th century
    Language
    Greek
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • He and another German, Heinrich Walther (1740s-1824?)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 12.16
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1683
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • An enamel and silver German binding, c.1683.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 451
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1100
    Language
    Latin
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    • Smaragdus of St-Mihiel, (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), abbot and writer
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1170–1185
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • It contains biblical narratives and homilies.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 47.8
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1689
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Black goatskin; covers decorated with shaped centre- and corner-pieces of massed curlicues, with sprays
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 194B, frame 11
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1570
    Language
    Portuguese
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    • Lower left-hand quarter, showing Central and part of South America and the West Indies
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arab. d.221
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • Hermes Trismegistos was a Hellenistic incarnation of the ancient Egyptian Thoth, and the god of all magic
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 438
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1576–1600
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Incomplete, first part and beginning of the second part, shorter, with a different and shorter preface
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gibson 77
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1682
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Blueblack goatskin elaborately gold tooled with red and citron onlays.