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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Aubrey 2
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1669
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • Sir John Danvers’ Italian garden at Chelsea. ‘A Draught of Sir John Danvers Garden at Chelsey …’.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Broxb. 45.11
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1783
    Language
    English
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    • The English garden
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. D’Orville 14
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    15th century, third quarter
    Language
    Latin
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    • Lady and youth talk together in a garden.Written in humanistic script.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Arch. G f.6
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1460-1470
    Language
    No linguistic content
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    • The Agony in the Garden / The Last supper
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, Filmstrip Roll 271.1, frame 17
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1797
    Language
    English
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    • Close-up of inset map of the city of Oxford with High Street, colleges and the Botanic Garden; and edging
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 21
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    c. 1500
    Language
    Latin
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    • In palace garden, Bathsheba bathing in pond with fountain, attended by woman, and watched by King David
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 263
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Language
    Arabic
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    • This is a copy of Nuzḥat al-hukamā’ al-rawḍat al-aṭibbā’ (The Delight of the Wise and the Garden of the
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. (E) C17:70 Oxford (12)
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    [1675]
    Language
    English
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    • The Physick Garden. 30. Christ Church Almshous. 31. St. Maries Church. 32. Carfax. 33.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Lyell 77
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1466
    Language
    Latin
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    • Lower margin has garden with roses, violets, strawberries and vines. St.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 79
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    14th century, 1308
    Language
    French
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    • In a phantasmagoric and allegorical setting, the lover seeks entry to a locked garden which conceals
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1461
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1620–1629
    Language
    English
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    • Watercolours of garden fruits: strawberry, gooseberry, cherries, plums, damsons, date, apricots, nectarines
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 254
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1595
    Language
    English, Persian
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    • emperor Akbar (1542-1605), containing stories by the Persian poet Jami (1414-1492), entitled Baharistan (Garden
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    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1436
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
    Date
    18th century, 1766/1778
    Language
    Latin, German
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    • Each poem is preceded by an emblem of a flower in a garden; the three sections each begin with a wreath
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    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.6
    Collection
    Cambridge Digital Library
    Library
    Cambridge. Cambridge University Library
    Date
    Second quarter of the fourteenth century, probably c. 1330-1340 C.E.
    Language
    French
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    • takes the form of an allegorical dream vision in which the Lover relates his journey into a walled garden
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 3694
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Low Countries, southern part ; Brabant (east)? ; Limburg?, 16th century, c. 1550-1560
    Language
    Dutch
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    • Illustration: Two coloured woodcuts: Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, with his disciples (p. 212
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    Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, LTK 315
    Collection
    Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)
    Library
    Leiden University Libraries
    Date
    Low Countries, northern part (east), 15th century, second half
    Language
    Dutch
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    • Incipit: "Inden garden syn bomen die boven schone syn ende onder ander wortel syn se leelich gestalt
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1551
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    1559
    Language
    ita
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    • / Covent Garden / 51" on the recto of the first free endpaper.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. pers. 21
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    16. Jahrhundert
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/per
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    • Particularly charming is the garden scene depicting a youth bending down a blossom branch while a second
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Persian MS 6
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    24 Rabi' II, 824 AH (1421 CE)
    Language
    fa
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    • Garden of green and rising gold hillside with a flowering tree. Blue sky with white clouds.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 39
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Language
    heb, yid, lad
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    • Top (large, oval medallion): Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, between them the Tree of Knowledge around