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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Add. A. 188
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
    • Fol. 168 is another fly-leaf taken from the same manuscript.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. Glouc. a. 3 (R)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1520-1530
    Language
    English
    • This pedigree is interesting as showing an early stage of the development of the 'drop line' pedigree
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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, Inc. c.G5.1495.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1495
    Language
    Latin
    • The title is derived from the way the verses of the service were sung alternately by the two halves of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 235.5, frame 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1660
    Language
    English
    • John Burston's navigation chart: scale bars are of 100 leagues, at 20 leagues to 1degree; that is, on
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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
    • philosophorum [short edition] ([Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, not after 1473])A six-line initial ‘D’ is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. E. D. Clarke 14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Greek
    • The melody denoted "Servikon" is almost identical with its 13th century Byzantine original and is one
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1758
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1612
    Language
    English
    • An exceptional element is the crosses pattée: 'To the crosses hath bin discovered, what beyond is by
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington donat. 31
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a comprehensive medical encyclopaedia titled Kitāb Kāmil al-ṣinā’ah al-ṭibbīyah (The Complete
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 596
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a copy of Ḥall al-Mūjiz (The resolution of the Mūjiz) by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Āqsarā
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. class. d. 37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1413
    Language
    Latin
    • The style of script is still very close to Poggio. Note that yellow is used for the initial itself.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 102
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a commentary on the first book of the Qānūn, generally known as al-Kulliyāt (the Generalities
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 139
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is the Commentary of Galen on the Book of Hippocrates On Prognostics (Tafsīr Jālīnūs li-kitāb Buqrāṭ
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arab. d.221
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • The Cyranides is one of the works of the Hermetic corpus, the body of writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistos
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 6Q 3.25
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1481
    Language
    Latin
    • Missale Parisiense ([Paris]: Jean Du Pre and Desiderius Huym, 22 Sept. 1481)On this binding is hand-written
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 389
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, second half
    Language
    Latin
    • The average scale is 2 miles = 1 inch. Drawn to accompany Wey's manuscript Itineraries (MS.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rylands c. 29/1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    before 1685
    Language
    English
    • Harvey is William Harvey, Clarenceux (d. 1567), Philipott is John Philipot, Somerset (d. 1645).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 479
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, beginning
    Language
    German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
    • This section is written in German.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby Or. 17
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This is a large medical compendium written in 782 AH/1380 CE in Ephesus for ’Īsá ibn Muḥammad, the Sultan
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 15.10
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1550
    Language
    English
    • An example of the Victorian interest in reviving medieval aesthetics, the use of wooden boards here is