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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 317
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1130-1160
    Language
    Latin
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    • Intertwined with the florated stems, in the descender, are a winged dragon and a man, lion head ends
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, BOD: Douce O subt. 15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1606
    Language
    Latin
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    • Map of Morocco which was known from a variety of sources, principally Portuguese; the Congo is after
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 76
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1190–1210
    Language
    Latin
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    • Provenance: Attributed by Palmer to the Eberbach scriptorium. Characteristic Eberbach annotations.
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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
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    • 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, MS. Canon. Misc. 213
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1428-1436
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Italian, Latin
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    • The repertoire is mainly in French, by northern composers, though the manuscript itself was made in Italy
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, BOD: Douce O subt. 15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1606
    Language
    Latin
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    • Map in Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, English edition as The Theatre of the Whole World,
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. e. 3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, end
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Virgin Mary suckling the Christ Child.Inserted miniature in 11th century German Lectionary.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. Or. 793
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century AD
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Decorated with gilt-blocked panels, some of which are sunk into the boards.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. F. 5. 19
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • This manuscript contains other works on the computus, etc.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 39
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1312-1333
    Language
    Latin
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Records relating to the abbey of St. Mary's, York.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ash. Rolls 21
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Each king is featured, full-length, in a medallion, followed by a set of verses introduced by a red ink
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, G.A. Oxon 8o 246
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1797
    Language
    English
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    • Plan of Blenheim, the seat of the Duke of Marlborough, in Thomas Pride, New Description of Blenheim,
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 783
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    c. 1700
    Language
    English
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    • No copy of it survives in Aldrich's own hand, and it appears to have been attributed to him only posthumously
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, BOD: Douce O subt. 15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1606
    Language
    Latin
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    • Source: Martin Helwig, 1561, in Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, English edition as The Theatre
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Russ. c. 1 (R)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1650
    Language
    Russian
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    • The calligraphy demonstrates a great variety of styles of the Cyrillic alphabet.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Holk. c.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1491
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim ([Naples: Joshua Solomon Soncino, c.1492] [1491])The ‘Holkham Bible’.
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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
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    • One of the earliest dated examples of humanistic script.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 608
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1425-1450
    Language
    Latin
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    • Manuscript of John of Gaddesden, Rosa medicinae siue Rosa Anglica, copied in the second quarter of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 196
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • The annotations in this early manuscript make it an important copy reflecting thirteenth-century CE interpretations
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 188
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1571–1636
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    • The codex contains ten Kabbalistic and four Maimonidean texts, written in more than ten different Sefardi