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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. B b.19
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1486
    Language
    Latin
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    • The transmission of Ptolemy in Europe began with the Latin translation by Jacopo d’Angelo (c.1360-1410
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arab c. 90
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1190–1210
    Language
    Arabic
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    • Contents: Divided into two books, one on celestial matters, one on the Earth.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barocci 16
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1294
    Language
    Greek
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    • Basil the Great, De renuntiatione; De ascetica disciplina.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 156
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • This is a copy of the surgical portion of the medical encyclopaedia.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Add. A. 188
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Fol. 168 is another fly-leaf taken from the same manuscript.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 93
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1400
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    • Astronomical texts, in Latin but including translations from the Arabic, primarily an English compilation
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. D. inf. 2. 13
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • between Tournai and The Hague
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 231
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Vespasiano called him the most beautiful scribe of his day.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, BOD: Auct. K 1.17
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1477
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Bologna edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1462[1477]: Portugal, Spain and the Balearics
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 104
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    9th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
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    • The archetype of this text was damaged at the beginning, and in this copy spaces were left for the words
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 47.8
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1689
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • The work of an unknown binder, called the Naval Binder, because of the number of books bound for wealthy
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 88
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1200–1210
    Language
    Latin
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    • Possibly identifiable as d 24 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. K 1.17
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1462
    Language
    Latin
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    • The first printed atlas, and the first copper engraved maps.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, fol. theta 446
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1501
    Language
    Latin
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    • The works of a poetess who entered the Benedictine abbey of Gandersheim, diocese of Hildesheim,
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 610
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1453
    Language
    Irish, Latin
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    • The two main scribes copied out earlier materials including genealogies and legends, partly from the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 80
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1181–1204
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Corrected with the original, as confirmed by Maimonides in an autograph.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Jav. b. 3 (R)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1500
    Language
    Sundanese
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    • Describes the wanderings of a Hindu-Sundanese hermit named Bujangga Manik through West, Central and East
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 99
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1415-1425
    Language
    Latin
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    • Humanistic script by scribe who signed other manuscripts: 'Nicolaus'.The scribe may be identifiable
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 61
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1081–1086
    Language
    Latin
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    • Capitals coloured with brush strokes, many large initials; a full-page initial at the opening of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, BOD: Gough Maps 86
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1693
    Language
    English
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    • Cartouches from the main chart and inset of the River Thames