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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: 1 d. 41 Jurassic Rm
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1757
    Language
    English
    • A study of fossils, mostly foreign, with descriptions of species, according to general characteristics
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Hatton 77
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, middle
    Language
    French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
    • In margin, two youths ready to pull on ropes to catapult cauldron with fire to assist two archers (wearing
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, second half
    Language
    Latin
    • De motibus planetarum, with commentary by Hugh of Santalla and preface addressed to Michael, bishop of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Oxford University Archives WPBeta/E/14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th November 1451
    Language
    Latin
    • Licence to the University of Oxford to acquire lands in mortmain to the value of forty shillings a year
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Oxford University Archives WPBeta/E/4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th July 1229
    Language
    Latin
    • Letters patent inviting the University of Paris to migrate to England, with fragment of Great Seal.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 488
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1500
    Language
    Latin
    • Maria Nuova, preceded by an address to Henry VII of England by Francesco Portinari, patron of the Hospital
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. O 5.32
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [c. 1470?]
    Language
    Latin
    • Scholars have debated where this book was printed, with some using linguistic evidence to assign
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    shortly after 1556
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • screenfold of Mixtec origin, pre-Conquest in style, recording the genealogies and history from A.D. 783 to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 91
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1540
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
    • Written before the winter of 1541 by Marguerite, Queen of Navarre and sister to Francis 1st of France
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 214
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • His other contribution was to algebra (Arabic al-jabr), which came to Europe through the 12th century
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 389
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, second half
    Language
    Latin
    • Drawn to accompany Wey's manuscript Itineraries (MS. Bodl. 565).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lyell 41
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, early
    Language
    Latin
    • discordantium concordia, composed in the first half of the 12th century by a Camadolese monk, was an attempt to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 41
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1190–1210
    Language
    Latin
    • Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 352
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
    • Manuscript written by or for a monk Rudolphus and presented by him to some German abbey dedicated to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 296
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1275–1325
    • Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr (attributed to)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 113
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1425-1450
    Language
    Latin
    • A manuscript book of hours, according to the use of Sarum (Latin with some rubrics in English), dated
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. Q sub. fen. 1.18
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476
    Language
    Latin
    • This book belonged to a ‘chained library’ (probably in a religious house in Germany), where the books
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Or. Richardson 47
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    • Photographic negatives of 7 folios of Tibetan text; negatives given to H. E.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 591
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1001–1100
    • Chronicles 2:21 - 2 Chronicles 36:12, Psalms 3-, Job, Proverbs, 5 Scrolls, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah up to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. V. 1. 51 (formerly MS. E. D. Clarke 51)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    10th century, late
    Language
    Greek
    • It belonged to the Florentine humanist Niccolo Niccoli (1363-1437) who bequeathed it to the convent of