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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, 8° Z 71 Art.BS.
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    between 1535 and 1546
    Language
    Latin
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    • probably the Loire region
    • Printed for internal use at the monastery, probably at Rouen.
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    Oxford. Queen's College, Library, Sel.d.81(4)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Queen's College, Library
    Date
    1535
    Language
    English
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    • Considered to be the earliest hymn book in English.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 164
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Judaeo-Arabic
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    • (Guide of the perplexed)Hand: Hebrew
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Reggio 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1291–1325
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Maḥzor for the entire year, Western Ashkenazi rite
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 574
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1320–1330
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Sefer Mitsṿot Ḳaṭan (The Small Book of Commandments)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gough Maps Oxfordshire 12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1751
    Language
    English
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    • [Plan of the University and City of Oxford]
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 235.5, frame 10
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1688
    Language
    Dutch
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    • Note, the latitude scale (to the west) has been most carefully divided into 10-minute intervals
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 232
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Richard Maydestone's metrical version of the Penitential Psalms.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 748
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • History of the Church of Durham to 1356.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. bib. e. 7
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • English illumination by William de Brailes (the first English lay illuminator whose name is known).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 52
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1542-1560
    Language
    English
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    • Written in Scotland in the reign of Mary, queen of James V.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce MM 493
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [1493-c. 1495?]
    Language
    French, English
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    • The Life of St. Margaret.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 364.1, frame 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [1701-15?]
    Language
    English
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    • Close-up of portolan chart of the South China Sea and the Gulf of Tonkin, [1701-15?]
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 364.1, frame 7
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [1701-15?]
    Language
    English
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    • Close-up of portolan chart of the South China Sea and the Gulf of Tonkin, [1701-15?]
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 235.5, frame 15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [1701-15?]
    Language
    English
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    • Portolan chart; Note, the faint pencil line showing a ship's track
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 235.5, frame 21
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1660
    Language
    English
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    • [Portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean off Europe (upper half)]
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • 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. Pococke 131
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • The Qānūn of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) represents the high point in the codification of Arabic medicine.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Span. d. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1467
    Language
    Spanish, Aragonese
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    • Aragonese version of the greater part of Brunetto Latini's Tesoretto.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Don. e. 120
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, after 1450
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Text: Commendation of the Souls. Decorated initial 'B(eati)' with trilobes, on gold ground.