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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ouseley Add. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1565
    Language
    Persian
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    • Contents: Dāstān-i Pīltan va-Pīlkan (ff. 4b-69a). Dāstān-i Fīrūz Shāh (ff. 69b-84a).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 45.11
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1783
    Language
    English
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    • Transparent vellum, decorated with a gilt-tooled Doric and curved floral border; sphinxes in bottom corners
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Tanner 226
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1659
    Language
    English
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    • Inscription at the top: 'Taken out of a piece of an old roll taken out of the old booke of armes'.
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    Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 151
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Christ Church, Library
    Date
    1401–1500
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • The manuscript is one of only two that now contain a full and accurate authorial ascription.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 939
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1480-1500
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • A late fifteenth-century parchment manuscript containing a calendar, private prayers, psalms and devotions
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 35
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Before 1464
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin
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    • Burial in a church.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Liturg. 272
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, end
    Language
    Latin
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    • In lower border: two angels maintain a heart on fire by means of a rope.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 146
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Initial I(mperium Assyriorum a Nino rege) and border of stylized multicoloured buds and leaves on a gold
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. C. 888
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, beginning
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
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    • King wearing a cloak with fleur-de-lys and holding a sceptre is seated on a raised throne.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. D. 4. 13
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    11th century, late
    Language
    Latin
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    • A misconceived diagram of the elements and climates, 100mm. (4").
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, 4 Delta 217
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1657
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • A binding made up from a piece of needlework in tapestry-stitch on a book dated 1657.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 58
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1490-1520
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    • A small-format preacher’s manuscript, on paper in 8o (148 x c.100 mm), written in Latin, and made up
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Ital. 251
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1400
    Language
    Italian
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    • titlepage with text in two columns, framed by a gold band; 8-line pink initial U(n giorno).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 447
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1376–1400
    Language
    Judaeo-Arabic
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    • Commentary on the daily prayers (originally part of a commentary on Maimonides's Mishneh Torah (Sefer
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: AL / YZ 3[5]
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1725
    Language
    English, Latin
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    • A Catalogue of the Foreign Fossils in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D. Part II.
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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, Auct. 1Q 4.27
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476-1478
    Language
    Latin
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    • Pigskin over paper boards covered with parchment sheets from a 13th/14thcentury German missal, with musical
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 277
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1415-1430
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • A large-format illuminated parchment manuscript of the complete Bible in English, c.1415-30 (408 x 260
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Book of directions and religious exercises for a monk during Easter-tide, with musical notes and illuminations
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G f.14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1490-1500
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • The Sacred Heart and the wounds of Christ displayed on a Cross, with Angels (‘Arms of Jesus Christ’)