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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Tanner 56, pt. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1551
    Language
    English
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    • Child taken up to Heaven where ark and sun. Caryatids and masks in borders.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden A. 51
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1426–1475
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • In the margins: Sidur according to the Ashkenazi rite (ff. 1v-76r).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 660
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century (?)
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • The design is similar to contemporary gold-tooled work on leather.Upper cover: 150 x 100 mm.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 23a
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1125
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    • Part 1 bequeathed, perhaps already bound with Part 2, to Osney Abbey near Oxford by Master Henry of Langley
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1758
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1612
    Language
    English
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    • An exceptional element is the crosses pattée: 'To the crosses hath bin discovered, what beyond is by
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. K 1.17
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1462
    Language
    Latin
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    • Of 500 copies printed 26 are known to be extant.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 192
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, second half and 1456
    Language
    Latin
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    • MS. given by him in 1456 to the monastery of Ste-Croix-de-la-Brettonerie, Paris.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. F. 4. 32
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    850
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    • I, Wales, 9th century; additions related to St. Dunstan, Glastonbury, 10th century.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 271.1, frame 16
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1797
    Language
    English
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    • Close-up of the inset map of the city of Oxford shows the western part from the River Isis with Osney to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 92
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 832-842
    Language
    Latin, German, Old High (ca. 750-1050)
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    • Text: prologue to the Gospels. Decorated initial 'P(LURES)' with interlace.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 589
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century, middle
    Language
    Italian
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    • grandiloquent title the maps and charts suggest it was made for use by a boat trading from Venice or Trieste to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 251
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1190–1210
    Language
    Latin
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    • Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Liturg. 275
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Aurelian to whom the 'Te Deum' is traditionally attributed.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 231
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Humanistic script attributed to Piero Strozzi, a Florentine priest who copied a great many manuscripts
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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. 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, Broxb. 31.12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1557
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • A contemporary inscription records this as a presentation volume to Cardinal Reginald Pole (d. 1558),