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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Mason S 160
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [1623] 1639
    Language
    Dutch
    • The three scales are of Dutch, Spanish, and English & French leagues; on the latter one league is equal
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. F. 2.13
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1150
    Language
    Latin
    • The first of the four artists (fols. 2v-17v) is identifiabl e as 'The Master of the Apocrypha Drawings
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 192
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
    • On the back board of the binding, covered in horn, is a label which reads: ‘Omelie Sancti Gregorii Pape
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, RSL: 18811 e. 40/1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1795
    Language
    English
    • Volume one is devoted to Part I, and Volume 2 to Part II, but Parts III and IV are not distinguished
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. A 228
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1672-1683
    Language
    English
    • worked extensively for Samuel Pepys (who, like Admiral Herbert, worked for the Admiralty), and who is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Ital. 62
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1470-1480
    Language
    Italian
    • The circular title page is of a type commonly found in expensive Florentine manuscripts of c. 1470.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 41.18
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1785
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • landscapes on the fore-edges of books: this volume shows a painting of the falls of Tivoli, but it is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The Zij (Astronomical and chronological tables) of Ulugh Beg is a monument to the last great flowering
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 427 (item 4)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • everyone, the second a general regimen for circumstances in which no doctor, or only an inadequate one, is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 99
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1415-1425
    Language
    Latin
    • vine-stem initial with the background predominently in dark blue and tiny patches of olive green and mauve is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Holk. c.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1491
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The title-page is hand-finished, and displays a coat of arms, probably that of the Salom family of Padua
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Savile P 8
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1494
    Language
    Latin, Italian
    • It also discussed double entry bookkeeping, and Pacioli’s accounting methodology is applicable today,
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 264
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, beginning
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin
    • A cycle of Italian ladies added at the end of some of the prayers is analogous to one more complete in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 156
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a large private notebook or commonplace book into which al-Rāzī placed extracts from earlier
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 98
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a lengthy, comprehensive, and popular commentary on Ḥunayn’s Questions on Medicine for Beginners
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 24.14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1546
    Language
    Latin
    • The motto ('hope torments me') is associated with Jean de Brinon (d. 1555), sieur de Villaines, the hero
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arab. e.246
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The treatise is an introduction to the study of the Arabic sentence.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 35
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Before 1464
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin
    • A man in torn clothes is digging a hole. Hanging cloth at the back, nave of church with aisles.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 649
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1589
    Language
    English
    • This inscription is by the hand of a former owner, Sir William Wade or Waad (1546-1623), Lieutenant of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 176
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    9th century AD
    Language
    French
    • A Lectionary is designed to be carried in solemn procession in church for the reading of the Gospel;