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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canonici Or. 9
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476–1500
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Meir ben Solomon Alguadez, Introduction to Aristotle's Ethics (ff. 29r-33v).Meir ben Solomon Alguadez's
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 572
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    900
    Language
    Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), Cornish, Welsh
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    • and Old English, 9th and 10th centuries with 11th-century additions, later belonging at least in part to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Jap. b.2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1613
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    • The original vermillion-seal document of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, granting trade privileges in Japan to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 123
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Humanistic script and probably also the illumination attributable to Felice Feliciano.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 133
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    dated 1558
    Language
    Latin
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    • Chain remains which tied the manuscript to the bookshelf.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS.Selden supra 105
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1620–1629
    Language
    Chinese
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    • The map, thought to date from the 1620s, arrived at the Bodleian in 1659 with the bequest of the London
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, BOD: 8' Z 251 Th.
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1705
    Language
    English
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    • creation of the world, the causes and effects of the deluge and the dissolution of the world, according to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 161
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1457
    Language
    Latin
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    • Illuminations attributed to Leonardo Bellini or circle. Humanistic script.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 710; MS. Laud Misc. 711
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1563
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Manuscripts issued to M. Bono in 1563.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet. a. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1381–1400
    Language
    Latin, Anglo-Norman, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • extent of its vernacular Middle English texts whilst its plentiful decoration and illumination serve to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 454
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1375–1400
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • fragments from Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda's Al-Hidāja ʼilā farāʼid al-qulūb (The book of direction to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 45.14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1786
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Heraldry was often used for presentation bindings, to flatter the recipient.
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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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    • and are of considerable value from the numerous illustrations and the first-hand information relating to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, second half
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Start of text: epistle to 'Lityl lowys my sone' on the use of the astrolabe.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 374
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1456
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
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    • Related to Paris, Bibl. Nat., MS. Fr. 9198 and Fr. 9199.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 397
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    after 1511
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Panels were used chiefly in England, France and Belgium from about 1490 to 1535.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canonici Or. 49A
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1375–1425
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    • Maḥzor according to the Romanite rite (Ḥanukah-Tishah be-Av) (ff. 7r-182v).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Vet. A1 e.125
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1535 (?)
    Language
    English
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    • Ordered to be burnt as a prohibited book in 1546, only this complete copy exists today.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. T. 2. 22
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
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    • This sketch was added in the first half of the 12th century to a manuscript dating from the 11th
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 58
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1490-1520
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    • saint is portrayed in his habit (with cord), tonsured, and with a halo, kneeling in the foreground to