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About the University of Delaware Library
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- Archival Masters: 600 ppi 24-bit raw TIFF color image
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The documents on OPenn
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MSS 95, Item 13:
Two leaves from a Psalter
(France, Second half 13th century)
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MSS 95, Item 14:
Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum
(Italy, 15th century)
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MSS 95, Item 15:
Medical, alchemical, and craft materials recipes, 15th and 16th centuries.
(Italy, 15th and 16th centuries)
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MSS 95, Item 16:
Italian alchemical manuscripts and printed selections
(Italy, 16th century to mid-17th century)
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MSS 95, Item 17:
Secreta
(Italy, 16th century)
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MSS 95, Item 18:
Lapis philosophorum
(Italy, Second half 16th century)
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MSS 95, Item 29:
Receipt of Jehan d'Auxy, Maître des eaux et foréts for Picardie and Seneschal of Ponthieu, for salary paid for the term of Candlemas, 1459, March, 1459
(France, 1459)
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MSS 95, Item 30:
Will, Frauentag 1425 3 April 1425
(Linz, Austria?, 1425)
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MSS 95, Item 31:
Book of Hours, Use of Noyon
(Amiens?, France, Written in Northern France, possibly Amiens; circa 1480-1500)
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MSS 474, Item F2B:
Leaf from a Book of Hours
(Italy, Circa 1450)
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MSS 474, Item F4:
Sermones
(Buxheim, Germany, Written in 1434 in the Carthusian Monastery, Buxheim; 1434)
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