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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 138
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1430
    Language
    Latin
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    • Apocalypse and Canonical Epistles with gloss of Augustinus of Ancona.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. e. 37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
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    • Illumination by the Master of the Queen Mary Psalter and his workshop. MSS.
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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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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • A German binder was able to reuse waste material from a liturgical manuscript rendered useless by the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Vet. E1 e.61
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1521
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • All-over blind tooling, probably Italian and contemporary with the book.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barocci 88
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1401–1500
    Language
    Greek
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    • Medical treatises and extracts.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 230.4, frame 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1458-1463
    Language
    Latin
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    • Scale c.2 miles to 1 inch
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. Bucks. b. 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1644
    Language
    English
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    • A True Mapp and Description of the Fortifications of Newport Pagnell, An. 1644
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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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    • England and Netherlands
    • Large blue initial P(uer natus est) decorated with red ink pen-work and flourishes in Temporale: Ad Magnam
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce Charters 62
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1450
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • England and Netherlands
    • The price of each kind was fixed by law and as the price of corn fluctuated, the size of loaves varied
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. ch. Berks. 504
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th October 1385
    Language
    Latin
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    • License to the Prior of Hurley (Berkshire) for the alienation in mortmain to the priory by John Terry
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 649
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1589
    Language
    English
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    • England and Netherlands
    • 'These armes were taken forthe of a verry auntyent Roll of Parchement so worn as they were scarcely to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 78
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1460-1465 (1460?)
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Gold initial C(VI DONO LEPIDUM) on blue and green ground with rose leaf-curl decorations form part border
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. poet. 125
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1590
    Language
    English
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    • England and Netherlands
    • selection of the engraved illustrations, mostly coloured, from early printed editions (both English and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. gen. c. 3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1534-1543
    Language
    Latin
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    • England and Netherlands
    • Bodleian exhibition Duke Humfrey's Library and the Divinity School, 1448-1988, Oxford, 1988.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 68
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1488
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    • Questions and answers and Mishnah Avot 6 (ff. 50v-54r).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. L 3.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1471
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Inscriptions include valuable information about early provenance and price.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 313
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
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    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • This manuscript was illuminated in Paris, in grisaille with coloured tints, and is of the school of Jean
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Inc. c.G5.1495.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1495
    Language
    Latin
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    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Erhard Ratdolt, 23 Feb. 1495)The Antiphonal (or Antiphoner) was the principal medieval choir book, and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 94
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1450
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • the 3rd quarter of the 15th century, perhaps at Florence or Rome, in a script which blends humanistic and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 36
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1450
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    • England and Netherlands
    • canonization (1201-2), in a mid 15th-century English copy for devotional use with illuminated initials and