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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 20.2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1514
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • One of the earliest French gold-tooled bindings. French (Paris), c.1514.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. gen. d. 10
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1615
    Language
    English
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • The full title is: 'The True Legend of Antiquities: Containing The honourable descent of the most
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. Glouc. a. 3 (R)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1520-1530
    Language
    English
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • This pedigree is interesting as showing an early stage of the development of the 'drop line' pedigree
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Tanner 67
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1638
    Language
    English
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • A petition submitted to Archbishop Laud in 1638 by the milliners of the Royal Exchange on behalf of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 636
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1121-1140
    Language
    English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Additions in French ('The Peterborough Chronicle', E text).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G d.37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1481
    Language
    Latin
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Aristotelis de anima (Oxford: Theodoricus Rood, 11 Oct. 1481)This was a standard university textbook in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet. e. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1460-1480
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Anglicana script with musical notation in a ‘minstrel’s manuscript’, begins with Nowell, nowell, nowell
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 410
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, end
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Man initiated by witches paying homage to the devil in the form of a goat.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 133
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1512
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • The 'Digby Plays': the unique copies made in the early 16th century of three late medieval plays in English
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. ch. Gloucs. 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1136-1138
    Language
    Latin
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Writ of King Stephen (r. 1135-1154) to Roger, bishop of Salisbury, the sheriff of Wilts, and others granting
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 181
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century - 16th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Text page with coloured drawings added in the 16th century.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. B. 396
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, end
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • A copie of such armes and monuments of nobilitie and other gentlemen… within the collegiat church of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. C. 81
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, end
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • A tretys in Englyssh tong after the conseite of Ypocras, Avycenne, etc.'
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G f.6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1460-1470
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • The Agony in the Garden / The Last supper
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 8
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, end
    Language
    Latin
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Copied in the late 15th century by an Italian scribe (from the Italian colony in Bruges?).
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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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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • A binding made up from a piece of needlework in tapestry-stitch on a book dated 1657.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 9.8
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1543
    Language
    Latin
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • Brown calfskin, with 'Thomae Wotton et amicorum' (Thomas Wotton and his friends) tooled in gilt.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 35.9
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1760
    Language
    English
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    • Milbourn in Little Old-Baily.
    • The front cover has a centrepiece of crossed sabres and a ribbon with 'In memory of the Battles of Thonhausen
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 16.16
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1597
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • probably the Loire region
    • Gold-tooled red goatskin, with leather onlays in three colours, on a printed Book of Hours.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. b. 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Large blue initial P(uer natus est) decorated with red ink pen-work and flourishes in Temporale: Ad Magnam