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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 13, pt. I
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1566
    Language
    Latin
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    • (designed by John Bereblock, fellow of Exeter College) of Oxford colleges and University buildings, to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 110.15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1486
    Language
    Latin
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    • Wood has been used by binders from the earliest time to the present.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 4Q 1.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1467
    Language
    Latin
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    • 94L4113: the giant Antaeus is lifted in the air and crushed to death by Hercules
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 1Q 4.27
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476-1478
    Language
    Latin
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    • A German binder was able to reuse waste material from a liturgical manuscript rendered useless by the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 83.15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    17th century AD
    Language
    Latin
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    • Limp vellum over satin, delicately cut to a lace design.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 196
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • the British islands and of the squiggle that represents the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, is peculiar to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 505
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1440
    Language
    Latin
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    • In the lower margin, Archbishop Laud’s inscription of donation to Oxford University, 1637.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 77
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1499
    Language
    Latin
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    • Text: dedication to Henry VII.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gibson 2 and Gibson 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Both these books apparently belonged to the same owner and each has silver ornaments with, on one side
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canonici Or. 71
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1375–1425
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    • Contents: Index to biblical passages (ff. 3r-18v).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. B f.53
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, first half
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Contemporary French binding for Pietro Duodo, the Venetian ambassador at Paris from 1504 to 1547, in
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 37.10
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1745
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bound by the craftsman working in Dublin and known to us as the 'College Binder', whose mastery of gold
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 78
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, end
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    • Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.Contents: Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus (ff. 1r-63v).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 103
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476–1500
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Commentary on the Song of Songs by Johanan ben Isaac Allemanno, divided into two parts: Introduction to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 47.12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1792
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Straight-grained red morocco with anchor tool work which are appropriate to the contents of the work,
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 154
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • hand border and gold 7-line initial P(Atri) has white stem interlace with green, pink and gold in-fill to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Mus. Sch. e. 422
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, middle
    Language
    English
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    • One volume appears to be lost.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 96
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1410
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The first and the last three leaves contain a list of different objects sold to various persons.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. Q. e. 20
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1025
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    • blackened fragment retrieved from the fire of the Cotton Library in 1731 and given by Browne Willis to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. B. 498
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1187
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    • 1363; with additions including a drawing of the Crucifixion, c. 1400 (fol. 211r), and documents up to