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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 52
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1542-1560
    Language
    English
    • With him is his wife, Mary of Guelders.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lyell 84
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century, early and late (for central circular miniature)
    Language
    Latin
    • Each is represented by a coloured drawing in a medallion and its subdivisions are written in smaller
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 893
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500), Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • In its branches is a two-faced king holding sceptre.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Liturg. 392
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • According to recent scholarship it is the earliest gold.tooled bookbinding in the West
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, A 5 10 Th.
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1588
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • The fore-edge is gilt and gauffered with designs in red.Size: 420 x 300mm.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 17.4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1526
    Language
    Latin
    • centre tool (in this case a panel stamp) with corner tools in a frame formed by the use of a roll tool is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 44.15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1722
    Language
    German
    • While indicating the pious purposes of this devotional volume, the style of decoration suggests this is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 83.20
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1603
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • The central panel is cut away to reveal goatskin filigree strapwork overlaying green silk.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. C d.56
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1791
    Language
    English
    • The staining is in terracotta and black, with a gilt Greek key roll border, inner frame of stencilled
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 70
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Jābir (Geber) is usually considered the father of Arabic alchemy, though mystery surrounds his identity
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 76
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1250
    • science and mathematics, assembled from several 13th-century booklets of which the last (fols. 110-122) is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 22.12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1547
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • Each volume is bound and gauffered in a different pattern of interlacing with open, floral tools; interlacing
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. L 4.3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1498-1502
    Language
    Latin
    • manuscript additions by Guillaume Budé derived from a copy of the 6th-century MS. of which a fragment is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G d.37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1481
    Language
    Latin
    • Little is known about the printer, Dietrich Rode or Theodoric Rood, named here in the colophon, except
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. C. 888
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, beginning
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
    • King wearing a cloak with fleur-de-lys and holding a sceptre is seated on a raised throne.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 403
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Latin
    • This is part of three single-sheet woodcuts on paper, bound at the front of a manuscript collection of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. Q sup. 2.7
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1488
    Language
    Latin
    • (Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 22 Sept. 1488)A nine-line southern German initial ‘V’ is supplied in blue
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 214
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Al-Khuwārizmī is famous for introducing the Indian numerals and method of numeration by position into
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. T. 1. 27
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
    • Part of the MS. is in Paris.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. C. 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    Latin
    • This is the only known example of the eagle panel.Size: 150 x 100mm.