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    Oxford. Balliol College, MS 238E
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Balliol College
    Date
    1444–1448
    Language
    Latin
    • Made for William Gray (d. 1478), later Bishop of Ely, during his travels in Germany and Italy.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce S 528
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1540
    Language
    Latin
    • Bound in brown calfskin, gold-tooled with elaborate interlaced design painted yellow, pink and green,
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barlow 22
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1321-1341
    Language
    Latin
    • The standard page of this manuscript has 19 long lines and the height of the various initials is given
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce L 186
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Dutch
    • A bookbinder's plough which is used to trim the edges of books and a gluepot are in the foreground.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. th. b. 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1455-1456
    Language
    Latin
    • Cher and Jean de la Rochelle.
    • England and Netherlands
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 25
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This manuscript was made in the city of Ankara and completed near the end of Mauahham in 694 AH (10-20
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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
    • line initial in a rectangle of burnished gold, Q(voniam) showing Augustine enthroned with his mitre and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. G e.40
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1640
    Language
    English
    • Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 110.15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1486
    Language
    Latin
    • Pigskin over wooden boards, blind-stamped with large rose and acanthus leaf.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. Q inf. 1.42
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1481
    Language
    Latin
    • Antonius de Corsiono and Guilielmus de Canepa, for Stephanus de Ulmo
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. Q 1.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1473
    Language
    Latin
    • Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79), author, naturalist and natural philosopher
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
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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
    • England and Netherlands
    • Judged by style alone, this binding might have been made some seventy years earlier than the rest of
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 834
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1613
    Language
    English
    • 'Composed by John Dowland, lutenist and Bacheler of Musick.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 108
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • England and Netherlands
    • South English Legendary and other Middle English verse texts, including Havelock the Dane and King Horn
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 201b
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1790
    Language
    Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Ge'ez, Latin, Syriac
    • The manuscript comprises a Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary, followed by a glossary that presents further
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. O 1.18b
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1499
    Language
    Latin
    • Maître de l’Entrée (de François I), Lyon, and a collaborator
    • Opera: Bucolica and Georgica (comm.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 37.10
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1745
    Language
    Latin
    • Bound by the craftsman working in Dublin and known to us as the 'College Binder', whose mastery of gold
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley Or. 161
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1526–1575
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr (attributed to)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 845
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    Latin
    • England and Netherlands
    • Genealogy of the Kings of England , from Edward I to Henry VIII.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce b. 4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • England and Netherlands
    • Illustrations of medieval Fools and Jesters, consisting of illuminations from manuscripts, original sketches