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Synodal Statutes in Latin

Synodal statutes in Latin, issued in 1287 by Peter Quivel, Bishop of Exeter 1280-91, in a copy of the first half of the 15th century.

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St Dunstan's Classbook

Eutyches, with Old Breton glosses, 9th century; Homily on the Invention of the Cross in Old English, 11th century; 'Liber Commonei' and Ovid's Ars amatoria, Bk. I, Wales, 9th century; additions related to St. Dunstan, Glastonbury, 10th century.

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Quattuor principalia musicae

A Latin prose work of musical theory composed by an anonymous Franciscan at Oxford in 1351, in a copy presented to the Franciscan convent there in 1388.

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Oracula by Francesco Barozzi

16th-century Latin manuscript. Shelfmark: MS. Barocci 170

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Opusculum de ratione spere

From mid-12th century England, an anonymous Latin compilation on astronomy, geography and astrology in four books, incorporating excerpts from Hyginus, Isidore, etc.; with diagrams, maps, and drawings of constellations and Zodiac signs.

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Two 15th-century Hebrew manuscripts

Yalkut Shimʻoni and Midrash Raba on the Five Scrolls in MS. Selden Super. 102

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Le Roman de la Rose illuminated French manuscript

From MS. Selden Supra 57 dated 1348

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Latin texts on St Gilbert of Sempringham

Illuminated manuscript from 1450. Shelfmark: MS. Digby 36

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Latin Gospels from Landévennec

From MS. Auct. D. 2. 16. Latin Gospels with beast-headed evangelist portraits made at Landévennec, Brittany, late 9th or early 10th century, supplemented in the 11th century with conventional portraits in the style of Northern France or Flanders

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Five English manuscripts (MS. Arch. Selden B. 26)

Miscellany of five separate manuscripts, all of English origin and bound together c. 1660, comprising: in Latin and Middle English, (fols. 3-33) 'The Selden Carol Book', polyphonic music including (fol. 17v) The Agincourt Song, 2nd quarter of the 15th century; in Latin, (fol. 34) one leaf of Gregory's Pastoral Care, 8th century, and two 15th-century items, (fols. 35-94) Wycliffite tracts by John Tissington and others, and (fols. 95-102) a Calendar, with tables for 1459-76, etc.; and in English, (fols. 103-134) William Cartwright, The Royall Slave, a play performed at Oxford in 1636

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  Music from "The Selden Carol Book"
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  Music from "The Selden Carol Book"
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  Characters in "The Royall Slave"
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  Calendar
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Caedmon manuscript

Scenes from the Old Testament, with Anglo-Saxon drawings

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Comedies of Terence

From mid-12th century Latin manuscript Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. F. 2.13

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Sites of pilgrimage in Jerusalem and Palestine

From MS. Canon. Gr. 127, dated 1693

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  The Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem; the Cave in Bethlehem
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  The Temple Sanctuary
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  Six monasteries in Jerusalem: St. Theodore, St. Thekla, St. Euthymios, St. Anna, St. Katharina, St. Archangelos
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  The Monastery of the Holy Sabas and the Holy Ascetics

Bookbindings

113 bookbindings from the Bodleian collection

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  Preston's Illustrations of Masonry adorned with Masonic symbols
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  The Poems of Henry Constable: a striking Art Deco binding
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  Qu'ran in a leather satchel with Arabic letters
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  A scientific book with astronomical markings so it can be used as a sundial!

Handbills

...advertising events most diverting and astonishing!

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  Handbill announcing two stupendous and royal ostriches
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  Handbill announcing the surrender of Calais
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  Dr Katterfelto's new Solar Microscope
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  Announcing a (automaton) girl of ten or twelve years of age, sitting on a stool and playing on a harpsichord
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  A most stupendous live elephant
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  Announcing a most surprizing large Warwickshire hog
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  Handbill announcing a model of the Battle of the Nile
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  Handbill announcing a most beautiful dog

Writing blanks

“Engraved writing blanks or ornamented writing sheets were designed to encourage the art of elegant handwriting in children. The blank would be completed rather in the manner of a sampler and was usually given to parents at Christmas.” – Julie Anne Lambert (2001) A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s in the John Johnson Collection

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  Elizabeth; or, The exiles of Siberia. A tale founded upon facts
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  Joan of Arc, the maid of Orleans
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  The progress of Education
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  Agricultural employment
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  Cinderella or The little glass slipper
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  Bombardment of Algiers
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  Christ's miracles
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  Emblems for the improvement of youth

Board games

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  New game of human life
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  Hunt the ghost
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  New game of elopement or A trip to Gretna Green
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  Cross Roads to Conqueror's castle
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  Game of German tactics
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  Wolf and Lamb game
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  Halma board
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  Game of Swanhopping
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  Historical pastime or a new game of the history of England from the Conquest to the Accession of George the Third
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  Alphabetical dominoes
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  Belagerungs Spiel
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  New game of the siege of Paris
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  Calculator puzzles. Two games in one.

Gospel authors depicted in head-pieces of Armenian gospels

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  Matthew
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  Mark
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  Luke
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  John

More Kalighat paintings

from India in the 1870s. Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 22

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Codex Selden

A mid-16th-century Mixtec manuscript densely packed with historical narrative.

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Aztec military dress

From the 16th century Codex Mendoza

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Aztec glyphs for places

From the 16th century Codex Mendoza

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  Queçalmacan. pueblo ("Place Where Quetzal Feathers are Captured")
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  Yztepec. pueblo ("On the Hill of Obsidian")
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  Yztla. pueblo ("Place of Much Obsidian")
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  Amacoztitla. pueblo ("Among the Amacoztic Trees")

Armillary Spheres from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

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Kitāb-i-Samak 'Iyār, a Persian 14th century manuscript

Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 381

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  Battle between Farrukhruz and Mardan-dukht, with spear emerging from frame.
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  Bahlan brought captive before Samak, under a fruiting tree.
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  The marriage of Mardan-dukht.
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  The Wazir reading a document to Farrukhruz.

Scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin, from a 14th century Greek menologion

Shelfmark: MS. Gr. th. f. 1

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Geometry and Astronomy from a 15th-century manuscript

Shelfmark: MS. Pococke 368

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Pages from the Kennicott 2 Hebrew Bible

Shelfmark: MS Kennicott 2

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19th century Burma: music and entertainment

From a book of watercolour paintings, shelfmark Ms. Burm. a 5

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Armenian gospels with Eusebian canons

Shelfmark: MS. Arm. d.13.

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World map and portolan charts from a 16th century Arabic manuscript

Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 294

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The story of Laila and Majnun (16th century Indian paintings)

Shelfmark: MS. Pers. d.102

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  The father of Majnūn taking him to the Ka‛bah
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  Majnūn redeeming the deer from the huntsman
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  Ibn Salām lying senseless on the floor in Lailā's bedchamber after being struck by her
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  Majnūn dying on Lailā's tomb

Book of the Fixed Stars (early 11th century book by Al-Sufi)

Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 144

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  Cassiopeia
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  Serpentarius
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  Pegasus
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  Aquila

Old maps of the world

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Japanese folk tale of Urashima the fisherman

Shelfmark: MS. Jap. c.4(R)

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  Urashima saves a turtle's life
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  He is transported to the kingdom under the sea and greeted by Princess Otohime
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  Otohime gives him a box that will bring luck but tells him not to open it
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  He opens the box and the spell is broken, advancing him to his real age

Indian gods (from 19th century Kalighat paintings)

Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 21 [Arch. O. a. 7]

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  Karttikeya (Skanda) the god of war, riding on a peacock
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  Ganga, goddess of the river Ganges, riding on an alligator.
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  Rama, Sita and Lakshmana
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  Garuda (Vishnu's bird mount) with Krishna and Balarama

Old nautical maps

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  Portolan chart: India, Persia, Arabia, Palestine, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, East Africa, Madagascar, Indian Ocean. Map with portraits of rulers, late 16th century
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  Indian Ocean and Madagascar, 1684
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  South China Sea and the Gulf of Tonkin (portolan chart), 1701
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  Gulf of Guinea (coast of East Africa), 1849

Hebrew Bible with Aramaic translation

From MS Kennicott 3.

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The Palace of Minos in Knossos, Crete

From the Evans Fresco Drawings section of the Sir Arthur Evans archive.

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Ragamala paintings

From a book of Indian watercolours, shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 166

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  A woman and her attendants, with boats in the background
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  A couple approach a bed at dusk
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  Women visiting a female ascetic seated on tiger skin.
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  A woman eloping with her lover on an elephant

The Baharistan of Jami

From Shelfmark MS. Elliott 254

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Women in the penal system

From the Crime theme of the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. See individual files for links and shelfmarks.

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  Social reformer Elizabeth Fry reading to prisoners (please help adding this, with caption, to non-English articles about Elizabeth Fry)
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  Mothers with their children exercising at Tothill Fields Prison
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  Veiled female prisoner at the Surrey House of Correction
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  Elizabeth Brownrigg in prison

Royal life in 19th century Burma

From a 19th century Burmese Parabeik (picture book) showing a royal procession. Shelfmark: MS. Burm. a. 6. Panorama stitched together from multiple scans

Kings of Egypt

From Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia, Shelfmark SAC:333 Ros

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Military equipment of the Late Roman Army

From the Notitia Dignitatum, Shelfmark MS. Canon. Misc. 378.

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Buddhism in 19th century Burma

From a book of watercolour paintings, shelfmark Ms. Burm. a 5

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The life of the Buddha

From a Burmese watercolour parabeik (picture book) illustrating scenes from the life of Gautama Buddha. Shelfmark: MS. Burm. a. 12.

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Panorama stitched together from multiple scans

The Fossils of the South Downs (1822 book by Gideon and Mary Ann Mantell)

Shelfmark: OUM: 1 d. 67.

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Entertainers in the 19th century

From the Entertainment theme of the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera

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  Jessie Millward
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  Rosemond Mountain
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  Henriette Sontag
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  The many characters performed by Emma Stanley (no Wikipedia article yet) in her one-woman show

The life of Krishna

From an album of 18th century Indian watercolours. Shelfmark: MS. Douce Or. a.3

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Astrology

From a manuscript known as Kitab al-bulhan or "Book of Wonders". Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 133

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  Libra from the Book of Wonders
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  Cancer
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  Aries
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  Gemini

The Magna Carta

Photographs taken by the Bodleian Communications team

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The Conics of Apollonius of Perga

Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 667

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Military insignia of the Late Roman Army

From the Notitia Dignitatum, Shelfmark MS. Canon. Misc. 378.

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Western women's clothing in the 18th & 19th centuries

From the Political Cartoons theme of the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera

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  "Miss Shuttlecock"
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  "A poser for a bloomer": a bloomerist (proto-feminist) asks her fiancé's father to approve their marriage.
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  "Fatal effects of tight-lacing"

Demonology in Islam

From a manuscript known as Kitab al-bulhan or "Book of Wonders". Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 133

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