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    Oxford. Exeter College, MS 186
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Exeter College
    Date
    c. 1350
    Language
    Latin
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    • A manuscript which once belonged to Petrarch who possessed three copies of this text.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 231
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Humanistic script attributed to Piero Strozzi, a Florentine priest who copied a great many manuscripts
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 100
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1450–1499
    Language
    Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
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    • Gospel pericopes and the popular Prayer to the Virgin (ff. 13r-20r).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 589
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, middle
    Language
    Italian
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    • grandiloquent title the maps and charts suggest it was made for use by a boat trading from Venice or Trieste to
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 1001
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1630–1650
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    • It is not clear how many scribes contributed to the copying of Mus 1001.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 50
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
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    • The main hand is related to Zebo da Firenze.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 31.12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1557
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • A contemporary inscription records this as a presentation volume to Cardinal Reginald Pole (d. 1558),
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 32
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1200–1225
    Language
    Latin
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    • Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 110.15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1486
    Language
    Latin
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    • Wood has been used by binders from the earliest time to the present.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 4Q 1.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1467
    Language
    Latin
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    • 94L4113: the giant Antaeus is lifted in the air and crushed to death by Hercules
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 1Q 4.27
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476-1478
    Language
    Latin
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    • A German binder was able to reuse waste material from a liturgical manuscript rendered useless by the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 83.15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    17th century AD
    Language
    Latin
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    • Limp vellum over satin, delicately cut to a lace design.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 196
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • the British islands and of the squiggle that represents the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, is peculiar to
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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
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    • In the lower margin, Archbishop Laud’s inscription of donation to Oxford University, 1637.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 77
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1499
    Language
    Latin
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    • Text: dedication to Henry VII.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gibson 2 and Gibson 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Both these books apparently belonged to the same owner and each has silver ornaments with, on one side
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canonici Or. 71
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1375–1425
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    • Contents: Index to biblical passages (ff. 3r-18v).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. B f.53
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, first half
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Contemporary French binding for Pietro Duodo, the Venetian ambassador at Paris from 1504 to 1547, in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 37.10
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1745
    Language
    Latin
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    • 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. Digby 78
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, end
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    • Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.Contents: Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus (ff. 1r-63v).