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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Buchanan f. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, last quarter, after 1471
    Language
    Dutch
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    • Book of Hours in Dutch, mainly in the translation of Geert Grote.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS.Selden supra 105
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1620–1629
    Language
    Chinese
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    • The Selden Map of China, painted with watercolours and ink on Chinese paper, is a unique example of Chinese
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Dugdale 28
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    dated 1605
    Language
    English
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    • A consideration of the office and duty of heralds in England…'.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Oppenheim Add. 4° 194
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1530–1540
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    • Responsa concerning the dispute between David Vital and Benjamin of Arta
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canonici Or. 47
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1526–1575
    Language
    Yiddish
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    • Maḥzor in Yiddish for the Days of Awe, Yotserot, Ashkenazi rite
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 84.4
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century AD
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • For the Medici. Italian, c. 1565. Red goatskin over wooden boards.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Pococke 375
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • The 'book of pleasant journeys into faraway lands', or 'Book of Roger', Tabula Rogeriana. 16th-century
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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, MS. Auct. F. 2.13
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1150
    Language
    Latin
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    • Terence's Comedies, in Latin, with Romanesque drawings comprising the latest version of the Late Antique
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 292
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    11th century AD
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • The ivory, attributed to Liège in the early 11th century, shows Christ in triumph over personifications
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Liturg. 392
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • The earliest Western goldtooled binding. Italian (Florence), c. 1400.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1200–1210
    Language
    Latin
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    • probably the Loire region
    • All parts probably at Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, in the thirteenth century.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 387
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1532-1603
    Language
    Latin
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    • Ernest, Archduke of Austria, son of the Emperor Maximilian II, was made Governor of Antwerp after the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 45.5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1745
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • decoration made from wafer-thin, shaped pieces of paper applied as onlays, to give a heightened effect to the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gough Maps Oxfordshire 19
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1797
    Language
    English
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    • Close-up of inset map with the High Street, Holywell and St Clement's, in Richard Davis, A map of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Gough Maps Berkshire 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1761
    Language
    English
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    • The First Sheet of an Actual Survey of Berkshire, [1752].
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 235.5, frame 22
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1660
    Language
    English
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    • [Portolan chart of the North Atlantic Ocean by John Burston]
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lyell 24
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, middle
    Language
    Latin
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    • Office of the dead with other items. Use of Sarum.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 2Q inf. 1.45
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1488
    Language
    Italian
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    • manner of Dante’s Comedy, was extremely popular in the late fifteenth century.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arab. d.221
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • The Cyranides is one of the works of the Hermetic corpus, the body of writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistos