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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Ital. 12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1459
    Language
    Italian
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    • Decorated initial 'N(oi)' with penwork flourishing extending to the whole page.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 133
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    dated 1558
    Language
    Latin
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    • Chain remains which tied the manuscript to the bookshelf.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 710; MS. Laud Misc. 711
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1563
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Note the traces of the four original ties.Size of both manuscripts: 240 x 170mm.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Jap. b.2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1613
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    • The original vermillion-seal document of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, granting trade privileges in Japan to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce Or. a.3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1600–1799
    Language
    Persian
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    • An album of of 38 Indian paintings in three sets: (1) Fourteen portraits in the Mughal styles of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. D’Orville 147
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1460-1465
    Language
    Latin
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    • The various texts were written in humanistic script by three scribes (the last is probably Felice Feliciano
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. E. 1. 11
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, early
    Language
    Greek
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    • The volume is half red, half green and has an impression of two gems by Valerio Bello Videntino (d. 1546
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barocci 197*
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    10th century
    Language
    Greek
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    • They were re-used in the 12th century when lessons from an Old Testament lectionary were written over
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 300
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1450-1460
    Language
    Latin
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    • Vine-stem initial on coloured backgrounds with the rather exuberant vines drawn in ink, possibly by the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 131
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1576–1600
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    • glosses on Zerahiah ben Isaac ha-Levi Gerondi's Sefer ha-Maʼor, on Talmud Bavli Giṭin, Yevamot, Ketubot, the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canonici Or. 49A
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1375–1425
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    • Maḥzor according to the Romanite rite (Ḥanukah-Tishah be-Av) (ff. 7r-182v).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gough Maps Oxfordshire 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1728, 1578
    Language
    Latin, English
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    • Copy of the earliest map of Oxford by Ralph Agas, engraved by Augustine Ryther, in a reduced facsimile
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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
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    • 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. Bodl. 264
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1400
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    • (fols. 3r-208r) The Romance of Alexander in French verse, with miniatures illustrating legends of Alexander
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Mason BB 104
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1646
    Language
    Latin, English
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    • The first atlas of charts on Mercator's projection.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Tanner 56, pt. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1551
    Language
    English
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    • The only known copy of the June 1551 octavo edition.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. E. D. Clarke 25
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • This initial was added at Ferrara in the third quarter of the 15th century to a Florentine manuscript
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 468
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
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    • The manuscript was presented to the Bodleian Library by Archbishop Laud in 1636.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Liturg. 379
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    dated 1452
    Language
    Latin
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    • Related to the style of Zanobi Strozzi.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. A. 359
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
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    • Decorated initial with foliage extending between the columns and into the margins.