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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 140
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
    • Note in margin points out that the scribe should have written Book XI here, and not Book XII.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 41.18
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1785
    Language
    No linguistic content
    • Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, 65 BC-8 BC, also known as Horace
    • They also made a speciality of painting landscapes on the fore-edges of books: this volume shows a painting
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 683
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    • Initial RSee also MS. Bodl. 253 which is part of the same manuscript.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. C. 6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    Latin
    • A strikingly natural panel of an eagle, a bird only found in formal heraldic designs, used here with
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. e Mus. 42
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c.1467-1469
    Language
    English, Middle (1100-1500)
    • The roll has here been adapted to book form – a sort of ‘roll codex’ – by folding in concertina fashion
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G d.37
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1481
    Language
    Latin
    • Little is known about the printer, Dietrich Rode or Theodoric Rood, named here in the colophon, except
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 15.10
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1550
    Language
    English
    • An example of the Victorian interest in reviving medieval aesthetics, the use of wooden boards here is
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 753
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Latin, French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
    • The quires of this manuscript have been bound out of sequence.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ash. Rolls 40
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century or 17th century
    Language
    Latin, English
    • See also MSS. Ash. Rolls 52 and 53.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ash. Rolls 52
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    16th century or 17th century
    Language
    Latin, English
    • See also MSS. Ash. Rolls 40 and 53.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Nich. Newsp. 52a
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    April 1723
    Language
    English
    • Extract, Beginning: 'Then the entered Mason says what follows: An enter'd Mason I have been….'
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ash. Rolls 53
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1600
    Language
    Latin, English
    • See also MSS. Ash. Rolls 40 and 52.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 180
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    12th century, early
    Language
    English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
    • Alfred, 848/9-899, King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons; also known as 'the Great'
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 850
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1664-1666
    Language
    Latin, English
    • Part of three volumes compiled and written by Elias Ashmole (see also MSS.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 167
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, end
    Language
    Latin
    • Three monophonic tenors in stroke notation: one, designated ‘Quene note’ and ascribed to ‘Frank’, is also
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 851
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1666
    Language
    English
    • Part of three volumes compiled and written by Elias Ashmole (see also MSS.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 287
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    13th century
    Language
    Latin
    • Douce 330. (12th and 13th centuries) also come from its library.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 315
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1622-1623
    Language
    Latin
    • A Latin comedy believed to have been performed at Cambridge in March 1622/3.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. d. 42
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
    • Divided into four volumes of fragments, see also MSS. Lat. liturg. e. 6, e. 37, and e. 39.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1522
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, second quarter
    Language
    Latin
    • Masha 'Allah Ibn Athari, 740-815, also known as Messahala