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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. O inf. 1.31(1)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1499
    Language
    Latin
    • (Venice: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, 23 Apr. 1499)The manuscript inscription records that
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 374
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1456
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
    • Miniatures in grisaille by Jean Tavernier, executed for Philip the Good of Burgundy.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. gen. c. 24
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1665–1693
    Language
    English, Latin
    • contain a large amount of curious observations and original work, and are of considerable value from the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Holkham misc. 51
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1490
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
    • Written for a member of the Berlaimont family who married into the Ligne family (with the quartered arms
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: 70 c. 124
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1770
    Language
    English, French
    • giving details of size, shape, pattern and colouration, with accompanying illustrations; also details of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, OUM: 70 c. 124
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1773
    Language
    English, French
    • giving details of size, shape, pattern and colouration, with accompanying illustrations; also details of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Or. Richardson 47
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    • Densapa (Burmiok Athing) of Gangtok, Sikkim, in the early 1960s.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Don. f.211
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1592
    Language
    English
    • An example of the growing habit of printing tunes in score rather than in separate part-books.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. e Mus. 62
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
    • Richard of Saint-Victor, d 1173, Prior of the Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 459
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
    • Richard of Saint-Victor, d 1173, Prior of the Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 254
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1595
    Language
    English, Persian
    • Manuscript commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar (1542-1605), containing stories by the Persian poet
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. T. 2. 22
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
    • This sketch was added in the first half of the 12th century to a manuscript dating from the 11th
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Liturg. 258
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
    • The Adoration of the Magi.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 35.11
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1732
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • One of four standard designs recognizable as purely Scottish in the 18th century, the herring-bone style
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. B b.19
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1486
    Language
    Latin
    • 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. Laud Lat. 73
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1430-1440
    Language
    Latin
    • The vine-stem initial is typical of the date, though somewhat crude.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Add. C. 151
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
    • Ivy tendrils extend from the initial into the left border.Written for the abbey of St.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 42
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1190–1210
    Language
    Latin
    • probably the Loire region
    • Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 156
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a copy of the surgical portion of the medical encyclopaedia.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 5Q 4.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1478
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • Note bevelling of the boards along the hinges and the simple use of one tool.