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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Now at the Ashmolean, formerly Douce Portfolio 142(92)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    ca.1590
    Language
    Latin
    • A fool or jester with a world map in place of his face.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 44.15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1722
    Language
    German
    • Vellum, tooled and painted; depicting the Ten Commandments on the front cover, the Crucifixion on the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, BOD: Douce O subt. 15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1606
    Language
    Latin
    • Compiled by Francis Hogenberg from surveys of the 1560s and 70s, in Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 141
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1460
    Language
    Latin
    • The book was formerly chained and two sets of staple holes can be seen at the bottom of the upper cover
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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)
    • Miniatures in grisaille by Jean Tavernier, executed for Philip the Good of Burgundy.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 25
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • This manuscript was made in the city of Ankara and completed near the end of Mauahham in 694 AH (10-20
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 126
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    11th century, end
    Language
    Latin
    • England and Netherlands
    • Beginning of prologue.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 430
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, second half
    Language
    Latin
    • Germany, Cistercian abbey of Eberbach (?)
    • Text: Life of St. Elizabeth. Plain initials.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. O 5.32
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [c. 1470?]
    Language
    Latin
    • [Printer of Terentius 'Comoediae']
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • : Printer of Terentius 'Comoediae', c. 1470?])
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ital. c. 73
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Italian
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Prophecies of the Popes.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 227
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1461
    Language
    Latin
    • England and Netherlands
    • Missal of Benedictine use: the pars aestiualis of 'The Abingdon Missal'.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, B1 (1047)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1610
    Language
    English
    • Chart of the World on Mercator's "constant bearing" projection.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 144
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
    • Al-Sufi's Book of the Fixed Stars, a revision of Ptolemy's Almagest with Arabic star names and drawings
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 486
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, end
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • England and Netherlands
    • Start of text. Decorated initial 'S' with crown and penwork flourishing.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 11
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1000
    • England and Netherlands
    • 'The Cædmon Manuscript': parts of Genesis, Exodus and Daniel in Old English verse, illustrated with Anglo-Saxon
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. F. 3. 14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1120-1130
    Language
    Latin
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • England and Netherlands
    • List of books in the handwriting of William of Malmesbury, the celebrated historian who died about 1143
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 90
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1399-1400
    Language
    Latin
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the younger, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Huter as (fol. 1) the Novella Master and (remainder) Cristoforo Cortese.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. f. 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1405-1413
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin
    • England and Netherlands
    • Some miniatures attributed to the Master of the Beaufort Saints. Made in England.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 118
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1758
    • Shemuʼel ben Yosef, of Kale
    • Aharon's Mivḥar; completed by Simḥah Yitsḥaḳ after the author's death, and added a poem and a preface
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gough Maps Oxfordshire 19
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1797
    Language
    English
    • Davis, Richard of Lewknor, 1750-1814
    • Close-up of the inset map of the city of Oxford shows the western part from the River Isis with Osney