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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 318
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1553
    Language
    Persian, Chagatai
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    • The fourth mathnawī of Navāʼī's Khamsah.Hand: Small Nastaʻlīq.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce d. 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1250
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    • Tristan romances in Anglo-Norman verse, with other short texts: (fols. 1r-12v) the longest surviving
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Liturg. 265
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Latin
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    • One fine miniature on an added leaf, by the school of Attavante, fol. 15a.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1131
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    17th century
    Language
    English
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    • Twenty-six founders of the Order of the Garter, identified by scrolls with inscriptions (other drawing
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Tanner 226
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1659
    Language
    English
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    • Inscription at the top: 'Taken out of a piece of an old roll taken out of the old booke of armes'.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. class. d. 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
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    • Unusual smaller initial on a blue ground with the first word of the text written inside in white.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Buchanan e.13
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1499
    Language
    Latin, Greek
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    • the repeated foliate tool, as on the upper cover; within the first frame a repeated scroll tool, gilt
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, B1 (1046)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1599 (?)
    Language
    English
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    • Chart of the World on Mercator's "constant bearing" projection.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 20
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • By the same artist and scribe as Durham Cathedral Library, MS. Hunter 100.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 78
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 109
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1100
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 243
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Oxford University Archives WPBeta/N/5b
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    27th June 1335
    Language
    Latin
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    • Charter of new privileges granted to the University of Oxford. Dated from the Tower of London.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 782
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    English
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    • Payments made for destroying the abbey church of Barking and providing stones for the King's manor at
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. class. d. 37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1413
    Language
    Latin
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    • One of the earliest dated examples of humanistic script.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Add. C. 138
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1450-1460
    Language
    Latin
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    • Annotations in the early hand of Bartolomeo Sanvito of Padua.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 164
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Judaeo-Arabic
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    • (Guide of the perplexed)Hand: Hebrew
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 194B, frame 11
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1570
    Language
    Portuguese
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    • Lower left-hand quarter, showing Central and part of South America and the West Indies
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, S. Seld. e.2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1479
    Language
    Latin
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    • [Printer of the Expositio in symbolum apostolorum]
    • The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 215b
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1601–1700
    Language
    Judaeo-Arabic
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    • A late completion of the missing beginning of MS. Pococke 215b, 216 in a Sephardi hand.