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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 667
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Of the original eight books, 1-4 survive in Greek, 5-7 are preserved only in Arabic translation, and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 95.7
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1482
    Language
    German
    • Single sheets printed on one side only, were often intended as posters and are generally very rare: small
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. c. 7903, fols. 38-49
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1616–1622
    Language
    English
    • All of the letters are written from Warwick, with the exception of (fols. 38-39), which was written from
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. B. 502
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1100
    • Fols. 105-171, further blank leaves of Ware's time, are not reproduced here.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 13, part I
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1566
    Language
    Latin, Hebrew
    • Queen and her favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (her host as Chancellor of the University) are
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ouseley Add. 173
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1500–1800
    Language
    English, Persian
    • Many of the borders are 19th-century coloured paper pasted to the pages.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. th. e. 7
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1460-1468
    Language
    Latin
    • Round this are 21 similar stamps of a griffin with floriated beak and tail, and outside this a border
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 84.4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century AD
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • At the centre of the front cover is a seascape painted in grisaille; on the back are the arms of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 2Q 3.46(1)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1470-1473
    Language
    Latin
    • Other initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in blue or red
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Liturg. 272
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, end
    Language
    Latin
    • On scroll above the heart are the letters 'B.P.T.A.'.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 514
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, end
    Language
    Latin
    • English manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth Gesta regum Britanniae with fine stemwork initials which are
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 133
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1512
    • The plays, not uniformly written, are bound with other miscellaneous booklets of the 16th to early 17th
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Cherry 36
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1544
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • Stitched over padding in the corners are pansies (pensées), a favourite flower of the future queen.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arab. d.221
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Under each letter are represented a plant, a bird, a stone and a sea animal, all of whose names begin
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce 163
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1487
    Language
    French
    • Initials are supplied in red with reserved white decoration.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G e.2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [c.1499]
    Language
    English
    • shelfmarked Th. 4° N 1; see James, Catalogus (1620), 357; in Hyde, Catalogus (1674), II 13, two copies are
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 138
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1458
    Language
    Latin
    • with round heads and weekly drawn hands and feet and the birds, with white brests spotted in pink, are
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 83.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Latin
    • Folded into many of these letters are pencil rubbings of binding tools, related illustrations, booksellers
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 58
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1490-1520
    • cord), tonsured, and with a halo, kneeling in the foreground to the right, and with his hands, which are
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 101
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1100–1150
    Language
    Latin
    • Laud Lat. 100, 101, 103, 266 are all plain text books of the Bible marked up for reading aloud.