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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. Ouseley Add. 175
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1521
    Language
    Persian
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    • Dīvān-i Maghribī (ff. 3b-124b, margin column, and 7a-12a, two centre columns).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 1.27
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1690
    Language
    Dutch
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    • Four volumes have been bound together back-to-back, in a style known as double 'dos-à-dos'.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. M 3.15
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1465-1470
    Language
    Latin
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    • A blockbook of 48 leaves, interleaved with manuscript pages of a German translation.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. 4Q 1.7
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1471
    Language
    Latin
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    • Decretum (Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, 1471)A miniature showing a pope with three cardinals and
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Or. 96
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1410
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The first and the last three leaves contain a list of different objects sold to various persons.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 352
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Manuscript written by or for a monk Rudolphus and presented by him to some German abbey dedicated to
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 83.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Latin
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    • Reddish brown sheepskin over wooden boards, decorated with a combination of individual tools depicting
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 61
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1081–1086
    Language
    Latin
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    • (P&A ii. 18, pl. II).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. Q sub. fen. 1.18
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476
    Language
    Latin
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    • This book belonged to a ‘chained library’ (probably in a religious house in Germany), where the books
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Barocci 22
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1501–1700
    Language
    Italian, Greek
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    • A collection of scholarly notebooks on Plato and Aristotle, mainly on Aristotle's Categoriae and De interpretatione
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Hamilton 15 ; MS. Hamilton 31
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Erfurt) 15th-century incised leather ("Lederschnitt" or "cuir ciselé") bindings on (1)a manuscript of
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Douce BB 225
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Gold-blocked binding on a Book of Hours in Spanish possibly done for the French bookseller Etienne Roffet
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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. Bodl. 317
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1130-1160
    Language
    Latin
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    • Intertwined with the florated stems, in the descender, are a winged dragon and a man, lion head ends
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, B 2.10 Th.Seld.
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1572-1618
    Language
    Latin
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    • Hogenberg), a collection of over 500 town plans and perspective views that present a landscape of architecture
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. K 1.17
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1477
    Language
    Latin
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    • Inscription: ‘Emptus idibus nouembris 1554 assibus xv a domino Jacobo C[a?]
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ouseley Adds. 16
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Dark brown goatskin, decorated with gilt-blocked panels with a scallopedged centrepiece, and a protective
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 52
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1542-1560
    Language
    English
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    • Her skirt bears a coat of arms (presumably her own), and she holds a thistle.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 827
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1100
    Language
    Latin
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    • Decorated initial 'A(mbrosio)' formed by curving tendrils and body of a bird.