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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. 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. 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
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    Oxford. Jesus College, MS. 16
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Jesus College
    Date
    1561–1637
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    • A fair copy with later additions, all in the hand of the compiler, Henry Salesbury (1561-?1637).
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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. C17:48 (9)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1635
    Language
    English
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    • landscapeEach strip is identified by number, and much of this landscape remains largely unaltered in
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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, 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, 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, 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. Germ. e. 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1395, with additions
    Language
    Latin, German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
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    • verschiedene Orte in Süddeutschland
    • Decorated initial 'H(ec)' in black and red ink.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 305
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1435
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Peter, Lille, in 1435.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 117
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1600
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    • Institutio ad logicam: the second of a three-volume set of academic disputations in Latin, of which the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. B. 501
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1340
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    • Registrum de Kilmainham: Chapter Acts in Latin of the Knights Hospitallers of St.
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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. Bodleian Library, MS. Arm. e.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Classical Armenian
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    • Manuscript gospels ornamented and illustrated, with the Eusebian harmonies and Eusebian canons.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Thurston 11
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • The Elements (Arabic title al-uṣūl) was the Greek mathematical work most widely studied in the Islamic
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 47.12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1792
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Straight-grained red morocco with anchor tool work which are appropriate to the contents of the work,
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 73
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1430-1440
    Language
    Latin
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    • The vine-stem initial is typical of the date, though somewhat crude.
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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