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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.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 292
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1051–1100
    Language
    Latin
    • Engraved on the metal plate are portraits of the Evangelists themselves at their writing-desks, with
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1541–1650
    Language
    Spanish, Nahuatl languages, English, Latin
    • Provenance: The two parts of the manuscript were still separate after John Selden’s death and are
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. gen. c. 24
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1665–1693
    Language
    English, Latin
    • These volumes contain a large amount of curious observations and original work, and are of considerable
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Top. gen. c. 25
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1665–1693
    Language
    English, Latin
    • These volumes contain a large amount of curious observations and original work, and are of considerable
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Holkham misc. 48
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1350–1375
    Language
    Italian
    • Provenance: One or more inscriptions are erased at the end of the text, perhaps partly in red ink
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, S. Seld. e.2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1479
    Language
    Latin
    • fourteenth-century parchment manuscript of commentaries on civil law; see Ker, Pastedowns, no. 38; the front are