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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
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    • volumes contain a large amount of curious observations and original work, and are of considerable value from
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 90
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1190–1200
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Provenance: ‘Possibly’ from the Eberbach scriptorium (Palmer).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 113
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1441–1600
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Extracts from Lilium medicinae by Bernard de Gordon (ff. 78r-96v).
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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
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    • 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, MS. Laud Lat. 41
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1190–1210
    Language
    Latin
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    • Letter from the cathedral chapter of Würzburg to the cathedral chapter at Mainz (f. 2r).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 46
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1340–1360
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Glossary to the Moreh Nevukhim by Samuel ben Judah Ibn Tibon (ff. 1-13r); Propositions and definitions from
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 158
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1150–1200
    Language
    Latin
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    • Extract from the Hypomnesticon (239r-239v).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 95.7
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1482
    Language
    German
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    • Gulden [German] (Ulm: [Johann Zainer, 1482])This leaf contains a warning against false coins coming from
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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
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    • Provenance: From the collection of Sir Gore Ouseley (1770-1844).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. misc. e. 22 (R)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, first half and 15th century, middle (added)
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Christ crucified on an oak tree, blood dripping from his wounds. Coat of arms (sable (?)
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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
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    • Note that English bindings had clasps from the upper to the lower boards.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 66
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • This treatise on the generation and development of human beings from conception to death is in fifty
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce 263
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1491
    Language
    German
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    • It was written by Stephan Fridolin (c.1430-1498), an Observant Franciscan friar from the city, and printed
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. D'Orville 301
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    888
    Language
    Greek
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    • Further notes were added from the 10th to the 14th centuries.Former shelfmark: Auct.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce S 528
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1540
    Language
    Latin
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    • patronised many of the best binders in Paris, such as the craftsman known as 'Cupid's Bow Binder' (named from
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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
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    • To the right is a pot/vase from which flowers grow. Landscape at the back with city.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce 215
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1487
    Language
    Latin
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    • Book of Famous Women, 1361-75) is shown by the number of early printed editions, including this one from
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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
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    • the age of eleven, Princess Elizabeth translated and wrote out The Mirror or Glass of the Sinful Soul from
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Gough Drawings Gaignières 8
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1700
    Language
    French
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    • These Oxford volumes were somehow separated from the rest of the collection now in the Bibliothèque nationale
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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
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    • Although this volume has suffered from the ravages of book-worms, the complexity of both design and execution