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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bywater 37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    after 1474
    Language
    Latin
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    • Decorated initial 'F'(ve), framed by knotwork on a trellis-like structure.Composite manuscript.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce Charters 62
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1450
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Douce a.1.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Kennicott 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1476 (?)
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • The covers also form a box around the book.Size: 240 x 290mm.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce 248 
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1460-1463
    Language
    Latin
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    • A blockbook of 40 leaves.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 395
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1449
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • First volume of a two-volume set. Second volume: MS. Pococke 396.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. C17:48 (9)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1635
    Language
    English
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    • A plat and description of the whole mannor & Lordship of Laxton with Laxton Moorehouse in ye county of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 40
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, end
    Language
    Latin
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    • Clemens Papa Vii-us', in a rubric, fol. 114, must refer to the Anti-Pope, 1378-1394.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1475
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    • Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Le Roman de la Rose, in a manuscript made for Louise of Savoy,
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gibson 1; Gibson 12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    after 1630; after 1632
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • "Dos à dos" New Testament (1630) with white satin round and another of 1632 on red velvet with silver
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 287
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1485
    Language
    Persian, Chagatai
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    • For the other three surviving volumes of a five volume set copied by the same anonymous scribe, see:
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 450
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1384
    Language
    French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
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    • In lower margin: acanthus medallions with two soldiers on either side of a coat of arms.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barlow 28
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 20 Nov. 1504
    Language
    Latin, English
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    • Top edge of folio waved as in a chirograph.Illumination imitating Flemish style.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Buchanan c.24
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Sebastian, bearing the name of the Paris bookseller André Boule, with a roll-tool border. Rebacked.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 117
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1600
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    • Institutio ad logicam: the second of a three-volume set of academic disputations in Latin, of which the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 340
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    11th century, beginning
    Language
    English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
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    • Nicholas in Netherlandish, the earliest known example of that language, written in a hand of the 2nd
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 720
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bearded man stands on the back of a crouching figure, the former strikes the forehead of the latter with
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. C. 298
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • MEA) with green knotwork decoration against the gold and blue centre, with white patterns, all set in a
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 505
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1440
    Language
    Latin
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    • Historiated 10-line initial in a rectangle of burnished gold, Q(voniam) showing Augustine enthroned with
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 44
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Pink 7-line initial S(CRIbere ) against blue ground set into an oval opening of a rectanglular frame
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    before 1179 (?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • The small size of the book shows that it was intended to be carried in procession by a single cantor