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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
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    • From Antonio Pigafetta, The Solomons from Mendana, 1568-69, in Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 791
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1425
    Language
    Cornish, Latin
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    • The Cornish Ordinalia, a trilogy of plays on the Creation, Passion of Christ and Resurrection, in Cornish
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gough Maps Oxfordshire 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1728, 1578
    Language
    Latin, English
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    • Copy of the earliest map of Oxford by Ralph Agas, engraved by Augustine Ryther, in a reduced facsimile
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Kennicott 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1476 (?)
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • The covers also form a box around the book.Size: 240 x 290mm.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 30
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1351–1375
    Language
    Latin
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    • Decoration: Fine historiated initial added in Lombardy, c. 1430.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 337
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Before 1463 (?)
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
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    • probably the Loire region
    • Acquired by Douce in April 1830.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 336
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Before 1463 (?)
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
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    • probably the Loire region
    • Universal history from the Creation to the birth of Christ. Vol. I.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Oxford University Archives NEP/supra/Reg F
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    5th November 1439
    Language
    Latin
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    • Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, brother of Henry V, (1390-1447), was a generous benefactor to the University
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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
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    • Compiled by Francis Hogenberg from surveys of the 1560s and 70s, in Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Ms Sherard 408, f. 100
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1793
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    • Drawing - colour-washed in monochrome - of Athens; signed by BauerAthens.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, S. Seld. c.9
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1535
    Language
    English
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    • probably the Dominican Monastery of Basel
    • The first English printed Bible.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Marsh 248
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • A copy of al-Kitāb al-Manṣūrī fī al-ṭibb (The Book on Medicine for al-Manṣūr) by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 144
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1190–1200
    Language
    Latin
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    • Provenance: Attributed by Palmer to the Eberbach scriptorium.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. f. 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Latin
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    • Painted in the style of Jean Fouquet. Close to the Jouvenel group.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 369
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1400
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Bible, Isaiah to the end (earlier Wycliffite version).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 448
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, beginning
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Commentary on the Psalter, Athanasian Creed and 'Magnificat'.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Don. c. 13
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century
    Language
    Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Sermons on the Sunday Epistles and Gospels, etc.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 180
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1265-70
    Language
    Anglo-Norman
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • Apocalypse with commentary (known as the 'Douce Apocalypse').
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 435
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, early
    Language
    Latin
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    • The Statutes of Eynsham Abbey, written in the 14th century by ‘Johannes de Wodetun’ (John of Wood
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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
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    • Map from manuscripts by Luis Teixeira of the early 1580s, in Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum