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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barlow 28
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 20 Nov. 1504
    Language
    Latin, English
    • Top edge of folio waved as in a chirograph.Illumination imitating Flemish style.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 287
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1485
    Language
    Persian, Chagatai
    • For the other three surviving volumes of a five volume set copied by the same anonymous scribe, see:
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 450
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1384
    Language
    French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
    • In lower margin: acanthus medallions with two soldiers on either side of a coat of arms.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 720
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
    • Bearded man stands on the back of a crouching figure, the former strikes the forehead of the latter with
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. C. 298
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
    • MEA) with green knotwork decoration against the gold and blue centre, with white patterns, all set in a
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 505
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1440
    Language
    Latin
    • Historiated 10-line initial in a rectangle of burnished gold, Q(voniam) showing Augustine enthroned with
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, 8° K 45 Art.BS.
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1557
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • At the centre of each cover is an elaborate panel stamp of a Biblical scene.Size: 160 x 100mm.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. Oxon b. 167
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1644
    Language
    English
    • Oxford was the Royalist headquarters of Charles I and this plan by Sir Bernard de Gomme depicts a scheme
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce Or. e. 4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1604
    Language
    Malay
    • A letter from Alauddin Ri'ayat Syah Sayyid al-Mukammal, Sultan of Aceh, to Sir Henry Middleton, authorizing
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 572
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    900
    Language
    Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), Cornish, Welsh
    • 'Codex Oxoniensis Posterior', a miscellany of booklets, mostly in Latin but including glosses etc. in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    before 1179 (?)
    Language
    Latin
    • The small size of the book shows that it was intended to be carried in procession by a single cantor
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 44
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
    • Pink 7-line initial S(CRIbere ) against blue ground set into an oval opening of a rectanglular frame
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, BOD: Douce O subt. 15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1606
    Language
    Latin
    • A reduction of Ortelius' 8-sheet map of Asia of 1567, which was largely copied from Giacomo Gastaldi's
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, pt. II
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1400
    Language
    French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
    • Alexander and Dindimus in this part was also responsible for one frontispiece (fol. 1r) to part I, a
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barocci 197*
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    10th century
    Language
    Greek
    • Palimpsest leaves which originally formed part of a 10th-century Gospel Lectionary.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 83.19
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    17th century AD
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • When official documents of great significance to a family (like this Patent of Nobility) were produced
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 295
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1167–1168
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The first chapter of Ḥulin is interrupted by a leaf containing the last two verses of Exodus with Onḳelos
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 32
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1200–1225
    Language
    Latin
    • Probably identifiable as C12 or a14 in the 1502 Eberbach library catalogue.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 35.12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1771
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • Red goatskin, decorated with gilt tooling in a classic 'wheel' design, one of the standard Scottish binding
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 55
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • Smith apothecary at Chertsey, who rescued it from the hands of the keeper of a chandler's shop', who