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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Lat. 50
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, beginning
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Cornelio) with head and shoulders of bearded man wearing ermine trimmed collar and hat, on gold ground
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. class. c. 7
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, first half
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Letters to Brutus, Quintus, Octavian, and Atticus (Ps.-Cicero).
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Reggio 25
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1476–1500
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Neḥunya ben ha-Kanah (attributed to)
    • Abraham ben David, of Posquières (attributed to)
    • Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel (attributed to)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. O 5.32
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [c. 1470?]
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Scholars have debated where this book was printed, with some using linguistic evidence to assign
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canonici Or. 25
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1570–1580
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel (attributed to)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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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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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The very square vine-stem initial is akin to some found in the manuscripts written for Poggio in the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 213
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1428-1436
    Language
    French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), Italian, Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • 15th-century polyphonic music: 325 secular and religious pieces.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 135
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1400-1405
    Language
    Latin
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    • Aristotle (attributed to)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Author-portrait attributed to the Novella Master, non-figurative decoration to Cristoforo Cortese.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. a. 5
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1300
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • John the Baptist to the left and angel with cloth to the right.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 29
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1530-1538
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Illumination, by the papal illuminator Vincenzo Raimondi (Raymond of Lodève, miniaturist to the Sistine
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. D’Orville 91
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Blue 8-line initial M(ORTUO PTOLOMEO) with penwork scrolls in blocks of yellow, lilac and red.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 19
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Start of Dialogue of Michrotyrus and Theogenius.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 259
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1400
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Fine borders, historiated and other initials, attributed to Cristoforo Cortese.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 154
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Left hand border and gold 7-line initial P(Atri) has white stem interlace with green, pink and gold in-fill
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Holkham misc. 48
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1350–1375
    Language
    Italian
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • blue with red and purple penwork at the start of Purgatorio and Paradiso (pp. 57, 113); three-line initials
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Auct. Q 2.12
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1491-1492, 16th - 17th century
    Language
    Latin
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    • Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Opera (Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1491-2)Sixteenth/seventeenth-century
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Misc. 127
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    Dated 1455
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Decorated initial 'Q(uoniam)' with floral and foliated motifs.Related to the Lombard style.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 291
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    14th century, end
    Language
    Latin
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    • Aristotle (attributed to)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 99
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1415-1425
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • The vine-stem initial with the background predominently in dark blue and tiny patches of olive green
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. c. 1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1200
    Language
    Latin
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    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Decorated initial 'D(eus)' with dragons and foliage.