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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lyell 57
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    11th century
    Language
    Latin
    • shows the five habitable and unhabitable zones, the 4th of which contains the Antipodes; the second is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Add. A. 188
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
    • Fol. 168 is another fly-leaf taken from the same manuscript.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. Glouc. a. 3 (R)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1520-1530
    Language
    English
    • This pedigree is interesting as showing an early stage of the development of the 'drop line' pedigree
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, l.c.2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1667
    • Each property is described, often with an account of its pre-Christ Church history, and with details
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 73
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1430-1440
    Language
    Latin
    • The vine-stem initial is typical of the date, though somewhat crude.
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 138
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1401–1500
    Language
    Latin
    • From its fifteenth century folio numbering, this manuscript on parchment written in 'secretary' is clearly
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Inc. c.G5.1495.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1495
    Language
    Latin
    • The title is derived from the way the verses of the service were sung alternately by the two halves of
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 323 (printed bifolium)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1692–1695
    Language
    English
    • The codex (MS 323) in which the bifolium has been bound is an autograph manuscript by Archbishop William
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 193
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Together with a fragment from an ethical treatise by Joshua di Viana, is an exchange of letters between
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 235.5, frame 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1660
    Language
    English
    • John Burston's navigation chart: scale bars are of 100 leagues, at 20 leagues to 1degree; that is, on
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 2Q 3.46(1)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1470-1473
    Language
    Latin
    • philosophorum [short edition] ([Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, not after 1473])A six-line initial ‘D’ is
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 982
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1575–1581
    Language
    Latin
    • Five partbooks from a set originally of six (the Tenor partbook is missing), copied and formerly owned
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 980
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1575–1581
    Language
    Latin
    • Five partbooks from a set originally of six (the Tenor partbook is missing), copied and formerly owned
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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
    • St Omer) by Omer (d. 667) himself and whose first abbot, Bertin (d. 698) gave it the name by which is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. E. D. Clarke 14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Greek
    • The melody denoted "Servikon" is almost identical with its 13th century Byzantine original and is one
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1758
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1612
    Language
    English
    • An exceptional element is the crosses pattée: 'To the crosses hath bin discovered, what beyond is by
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington donat. 31
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a comprehensive medical encyclopaedia titled Kitāb Kāmil al-ṣinā’ah al-ṭibbīyah (The Complete
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 596
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a copy of Ḥall al-Mūjiz (The resolution of the Mūjiz) by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Āqsarā
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 981
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1575–1581
    Language
    Latin
    • Five partbooks from a set originally of six (the Tenor partbook is missing), copied and formerly owned
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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
    • The style of script is still very close to Poggio. Note that yellow is used for the initial itself.