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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Mason BB 104
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1646
    Language
    Latin, English
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    • The first atlas of charts on Mercator's projection.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Tanner 56, pt. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1551
    Language
    English
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    • The only known copy of the June 1551 octavo edition.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. E. D. Clarke 25
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • This initial was added at Ferrara in the third quarter of the 15th century to a Florentine manuscript
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 468
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
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    • The manuscript was presented to the Bodleian Library by Archbishop Laud in 1636.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Liturg. 379
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    dated 1452
    Language
    Latin
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    • Related to the style of Zanobi Strozzi.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. A. 359
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
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    • Decorated initial with foliage extending between the columns and into the margins.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 106
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1509
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    • Asher ben Shelomyah, The Abbreviated Duties of the Heart (ff. 94r-142r).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, B 1.3 Med.
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1530
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Judged by style alone, this binding might have been made some seventy years earlier than the rest of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. Q 2.12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1491-1492, 16th - 17th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1491-2)Sixteenth/seventeenth-century Italian ornamental design painted on the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barocci 22
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1501–1700
    Language
    Italian, Greek
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    • on Plato and Aristotle, mainly on Aristotle's Categoriae and De interpretatione, with extracts from the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 83.19
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    17th century AD
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • family (like this Patent of Nobility) were produced, highquality workmanship was employed to signify the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 213
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1428-1436
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Italian, Latin
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    • The repertoire is mainly in French, by northern composers, though the manuscript itself was made in Italy
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. f. 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1405-1413
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin
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    • Some miniatures attributed to the Master of the Beaufort Saints. Made in England.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 185
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1201–1281
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    • Miscellany (Abraham Maimonides's answers to Daniel ha-Bavli's questions on the Mishneh Torah.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, pt. III
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1400
    Language
    French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
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    • Additions to an earlier Flemish manuscript of the Romance of Alexander.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden A. 51
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1426–1475
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • In the margins: Sidur according to the Ashkenazi rite (ff. 1v-76r).
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 188
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1571–1636
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    • The codex contains ten Kabbalistic and four Maimonidean texts, written in more than ten different Sefardi
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, BOD: Douce O subt. 15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1606
    Language
    Latin
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    • Gastaldi's wall-map of Asia of 1559-61, in Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, English edition as The
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 251
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    dated 1424
    Language
    Latin
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    • Large pink initial U(t dicit) with the author, Walter Burley, reading, seated at lectern.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Reggio 43
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1275–1860
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Moses Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed (Moreh Nevukhim, 3:27-29) (ff. 65r-68r).