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Detail of a letter on a page from a 14th Century Latin Vulgate Bible, written in England on vellum.  The capital letter is illuminated with gold and decorated with white tracery. (Fragment 13) From the Reed Rare Books Collection in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Hand lettered vellum from a 1490 edition of the Book of Hours.
A certificate border on a dirty and creased old paper background.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
An antique copy of the Hebrew scriptures and New Testament Bible from the 1800's.  Detail shot of the Lord's Prayer as taught to his disciples.
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
Old vintage handwriting, original, 1825, name, William Wigson, 19th Century ephemera
Text carved in sandstone 17th century Germany 1704
A closeup of an illuminated medieval manuscript on a  parchment with the historical Gregorian chant
A soiled and damaged  blank certificate with an ornamental border. All identifying details have been removed for you to add your own.
Page from a 15th Century Book of Hours, written in France on vellum, showing Joseph and Mary taking Jesus to Egypt. (Fragment 19) From the Reed Rare Books Collection in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Close-up of an old notebook cover (printed at the beginning of the 20th century) with a beautiful red ornamental frame.\nIdeal for Christmas cards, background for prints, websites and many other applications with a classic feel.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Leather Book Label , Italian, Monte Sancto, Dante, Petrercha
Old page of a medieval latin script
Campaign inscriptions in Pompeii at House of Aulus Trebius Valens\n( Lucreti ) Valentis fili
TURIN, ITALY - CIRCA MAY 2021: antique Medieval manuscript with ancient calligraphy.
High angle extreme closeup photo of 300 year old handmade paper with cursive handwriting in French in faded brown ink noting details of farm transactions in 1705, from Burgundy, France.
Illustration in 15th Century French Book of Hours, showing Joseph and Mary fleeing to Egypt. Photographed at the Dunedin Public Library, New Zealand and used with permission from curators of  the Reed Collection.
Ancient Traditional Chinese Manchu Script Books - Qing Dynasty
Ancient manuscript in codex, texture
Vintage handwriting on old paper, 1880s, 19th Century
Aged, 200 years old letter from ottoman empire
Close-up of an old notebook cover (printed at the beginning of the 20th century) with a beautiful red ornamental frame. Ideal for Christmas cards, background for prints, websites and many other applications with a classic feel.
Aged handwritten manuscript text. Calligraphy on old paper, vintage background
Detail of an old medieval  manuscript in sepia, shallow depth of field
folded paper relic to Saint Donatus isolated on white background
Old books on a white background
Free Images: "bestof:...Manuscript on parchment-; written in France in the xiiith cent., and ornameted with well-executed illuminated initials. Duodecimo. - Upper cover (Add Ms"
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BIBLIA Saera, cum interpretationibus nominum Hebraicorum. -Manuscript on parchment-; written in France in the xiiith cent., and ornameted with well-executed illuminated initials. Duodecimo. - Upper cover (Add Ms 28626).jpg
BIBLIA Saera, cum interpretationibus nominum Hebraicorum. -Manuscript on parchment-; written in France in the xiiith cent., and ornameted with well-executed illuminated initials. Duodecimo. - Lower cover (Add Ms 28626).jpg
HORae beatæ Mariæ virginis, et alia officia, scil.- Calendar, in French, f. 3; Commemoratio S. Anthonii, f. 16; Cursus Evangelii, f. 17 b; Commemorationes Sanctorum, f. 25; Horæ beatæ -Mariæ - Upper cover (Add Ms 23145).jpg
CALENDARIUM, f. 1; Horæ Sancti Spiritus, f. 2l; Horæ B. Mariæ Virginis; cum Psalmis Pœnitentialibus, Litania et precibus, f. 56. beginning of the XIVth cent.; illuminated, and with miniatur - Upper cover (Add Ms 17444).jpg
DIURNAL of the use of the Canons Regular of the Windesheim Congregation;. from the Priory of Our Lady and the Holy Apostle's at Utrecht. -Manuscript on parchment- - Upper cover (Add Ms 40153).jpg
"LA BIBLE Hystoriaulz, ou les hystoires escolastres;" translated from the Latin of Petrus Comestor by Guyart des Moulins, in the years 1291-1294. -Ms on parchment; written early in the XVth - Upper cover (Add Ms 18856).jpg
PSALTERIUM Latinum, cum Canticis sacris, Symbolo S. Athanasii, et Litania -ff. 218 and 238 are wanting-. On vellum, written early in the xvth century, and illuminated throughout; having smal - Upper cover (Add Ms 16999).jpg
HOURS, etc., of the Virgin and other offices, in Latin, viz.-- Cursus Evangelii, f. 1. "Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Johannem," f. 2. Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis, Sanctæ Crucis, - Upper cover (Add Ms 27698).jpg
S. AURELII AUGUSTINI, Episcopi Hipponensis, De Civitate Dei libri xxii. Manuscript on parchment, written in Italy, xvth cent. An illuminated border round the first page is executed in a supe - Lower cover (Add MS 14783).jpg
M. VALERII MARTIALIS Epigrammatum libri xiv., ex emendatione Torquati Genadii ;-Diversorum veterum Poetarum in Priapum lusus. On vellum, xvth cent., very elegantly written and ornamented. On - Upper cover (Add Ms 12004).jpg
THE Four Gospels, in Latin ; with prefaces. Imperfect. Vellum. Written in Germany in the Xth or XIth cent. - Upper cover (Add Ms 21921).jpg
HORAE B. Mariæ Virginis; cum litania, psalmis pœnitentialibus, memoriis Sanctorum, et officio mortuorum. Manuscript on parchment. Written in Flanders by two hands, of the middle of the xvth - Upper cover (Add Ms 19416).jpg
HOURS of the Cross and the Holy Spirit, with Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers. Lat. Vellum; with miniatures; written in France in the XVIth cent., - Upper cover (Add Ms 22751).jpg
HORÆ B. Mariæ Virginis; cum septem psalmis pœnitentialibus, litania, vigiliis mortuorum, et suffragiis Sanctorum. Vellum; finely illuminated for Francis I. of France. Some of the borders are - Upper cover (Add Ms 18853).jpg
SALOMONIS Liber Sapientiæ; with marginal notes from -the commentary of Rabanus Maurus, and an interlinear gloss. -Vellum; early XIIIth cent.; with an illuminated initial, and in -early bindi - Upper cover (Add Ms 24076).jpg
35,322, 35,323. ROTHSCHILD BEQUEST. Vols. XIII., XIV. The Decameron of Boccaccio, in French. Translated by Laurens de Premier fait from a Latin version made for him (as he says in his prefac - Upper cover (Add Ms 35323).jpg
DIURNAL of the use of the Canons Regular of the Windesheim Congregation;. from the Priory of Our Lady and the Holy Apostle's at Utrecht. -Manuscript on parchment- - Lower cover (Add Ms 40153).jpg
"LES NOMS des freres et seurs de la charite et confrarie du saint sacrement fondee en la grant eglise de nostre dame de Rouen- extrais des antiens registres et papiers;" 1435; containing a c - Lower cover (Add Ms 19743).jpg
HORae Beatæ Mariee Virginis et Officia varia, scil.- "Off-iciu-m b-ea-te marie uirginis secundum consuetudinem romane ecclesie," f. 1; "Officium defunctorum," f. 103; "Septem psalmi peniten - Upper cover (Add Ms 23774).jpg
A MORAL treatise, in Latin, by John Skelton, poet laureate, dedicated to Prince Henry, aterwards Henry VIII., and dated Eltham, 28 Aug. 150 1. Imperfect. Small Octavo.- - Upper cover (Add Ms 26787).jpg
27,929. "CANON Missae. Additæ sunt Præparatio ad Missam et Orationes que ab Episcopis -dicuntur- cum salemniter vel private celebrant; necnon gratiarum actiones Misse saerificio peracto. Jux - Upper cover (Add Ms 27929).jpg
"LES NOMS des freres et seurs de la charite et confrarie du saint sacrement fondee en la grant eglise de nostre dame de Rouen- extrais des antiens registres et papiers;" 1435; containing a c - (Add Ms 19743).jpg
"PARVA Cyrurgia Lanfranci Mediolanensis;" with marginal notes, f. 2. 2. Magna cyrurgia, of the same, in 5 books; with notes, f. 14. 3. "-Parva- cyrurgia Theodoii fratris ordinis, fratrum prc - Upper cover (Add Ms 26106).jpg
CALENDARIUM, f. 3; Horæ B. Mariæ Virginis, cum psalmis pœnitentialibus, litania, et vigiliis mortuorum, f. 19; Horæ S. Trinitatis, f. 156 b; Horæ Passionis Domini, f. 162 b; Horæ S. Spiritus - Upper cover (Add Ms 18192).jpg
TREATISES of Johannes de Sacro Bosco, in Latin, viz. 1. Nova compoti compilatio." f. 15. 2. Algorismus." f. 76. 3. Tractatus de spera." f. 97. A calendar, and solar, lunar, and other tables - Upper cover (Add Ms 30380).jpg
Allegoriae super tabernaculum Moysi and Allegoriae super Leviticum - Upper Cover (Add ms 82947).jpg
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Gallican Psalter with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter') - Upper Cover (Add ms 37768).jpg
41258. "HENR-ICUS- DE BRACTONE" (16th cent. title), De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae. -Manuscript on parchment Circ. A.D. 1300. -- - Upper cover (Add Ms 41258).jpg
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BREVIARY of the Vallombrosan abbey of San Salvi, Florence --Manuscript on parchment; ff. ii + 475. 6.1-2 in. x 4 in. xv cent. (after A.D. 1433). - - Upper cover (Add Ms 41050).jpg
BREVIARY, Pars Hiemalis, of Paris use; with a calendar and ther later additions. Music on a stave of four red lines. Manuscript on parchment- - Upper cover (Add Ms 37399).jpg
JUSTINIANI IMPERATORIS Digestum Novum... On vellum, xivth cent., finely written, with several miniatures skilfully executed by an Italian artist. Large Folio. - Upper cover (Add Ms 12023).jpg
"SERMONES discipuli -scil. Johannis Herolt- super epistolas" Dominicales- written by Johannes Segewynus, 1463, f. 1. 2. Ejusdem promptuarium exemplorum, ordine alphabetico; indice rerum subj - Upper cover (Add Ms 19909 ).jpg
THE APOCALYPSE, with commentary, in French. -See MSS. Reg. 15 D. ii. f. 104; 19 B. xv.; and Harl. MS. 4,972. Compare Harl. MS. 1,527- -Manuscript on parchment - with rudely painted miniatur - Upper cover (Add Ms 17399).jpg
Vitae patrum, in usum ministrorum verbi, quo ad eius fieri potuit repurgatae. - Upper cover (rb23a23914).jpg
SMARAGDI, Abbatis Monasterii Benedictini S. Michaelis in Lotharingia, Commentarius in Regulam S. Benedicti, in tres libros distinctus, cum præfatione metrica et tabula capitulorum præmissis. - Upper cover (Add ms 16961).jpg
QUERELLE entre le Duc d'Austrie -Maximilien- et Madame la Duchesse d'Austrie et de Bourgogne -Marie- et le Roy de France -Louis XI-, relating to claims of lands. Paper; XVth cent. Small Quar - Upper cover (Add Ms 17717).jpg
Christian Police- or, The Christian Common-wealth ... Written in Spanish, and translated into English -by J. Mabbe-. (pp. 481. Thomas Harper, for Edward Blount- London, 1632.) - - Upper cover (C53bb13).jpg
OFFICIA Octo, videlicet, Individve Trinitatis; Omnivm in Christo Defvnotorvm; Angelorvm; Sanctorvmque omnivm; Preciosissimi Corporis Christi; et Sancti Spiritvs; Alme crvcis; -Gavdiorvm sept - Upper cover (Add ms 21591).jpg
MYSTERE "des Actes des Apostres," by Arnoul and Simon Grebau ( imperf.), comprising the 2nd, 6th, 7th, and 8th days. Vellum, beginning of XVIth cent. In four volumes - Upper cover (Add Ms 17426).jpg
"CE SONT les Remonstrances que font Monseigneur -Pierre II., Duc de Bourbon- et Madame -Anne, daughter of Louis Xl. of France, his wife-, à cause delle, par devant Messrs. l'Evesque d'Alby - - Upper cover (Add Ms 15655).jpg
THOMÆ EBENDORFFER DE HASELBACH Directorium Historicum- A compendium of the history of the Emperor., of the West, preceded by a short account of the Four Monarchies; in seven books, the last - Upper cover (Add Ms 22273).jpg
-Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark, glossed. Ms- - Upper cover (Davis386).jpg
THEOLOGICAL and ethical compilations, viz.- Part 1. "Auctoritates pro virtutibus contra vitia" (so the modern title on the back) - a collection of biblical texts suitable for texts of sermon - Upper cover (Add Ms 38820).jpg
MISCELLANEOUS theological tracts 1-9, as follows--(1) "Officium de corpore Ihesu Christi"- a copy of the bull of Urban IV -11 Aug. 1264-, ...Vellum ms. - Upper cover (Add Ms 41196).jpg
PSALTER, Hymns, and Commune Sanctorum of Antiphonal, the last being followed by an Officium pro Defunctis, Venitare, part of a Te Deum, Offices of the Virgin, and the eight ecclesiastical To - Upper cover (Add MS 34263).jpg
Formulary of documents relating to the French royal exchequer, etc.; 1443-after 1515, n.d. Copies,circa early 16th cent. Latin and French. The formulary, which begins with a list of five ord - Upper cover (Add Ms 72460).jpg
A MORAL treatise, in Latin, by John Skelton, poet laureate, dedicated to Prince Henry, aterwards Henry VIII., and dated Eltham, 28 Aug. 150 1. Imperfect. Small Octavo.- - Lower cover (Add Ms 26787).jpg
Gallican Psalter with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter') - Spine (Add ms 37768).jpg
Gallican Psalter with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter') - Lower Cover (Add ms 37768).jpg
SUMMA super Gratiani decretum; beginning, "Operis cuiuslibet prius sunt indaganda principia." At the beginning and end are glosses in a different hand, apparently French. -Manuscript on parc - (Add Ms 24659).jpg
Allegoriae super tabernaculum Moysi and Allegoriae super Leviticum - Lower Cover (Add ms 82947).jpg
Allegoriae super tabernaculum Moysi and Allegoriae super Leviticum - Spine (Add ms 82947).jpg
Ottheinrich_Bible_WDL4106.jpg
M. TULLIUS CICERO, Orationes Philippicae xiv; followed (f. 168 b) by 'Somnium Scipionis e VI -libro- De republica excerptum', which has the colophon (f. 175) in red 'Haud amplius comperi et - Upper cover (Kings Ms 20).jpg
-Gospel book- - Upper Cover (Add. ms 11848).jpg
Sanctiss. D.N.D. Benedicti divina providentia Pap- XIII. - Upper cover (c26m8).jpg
Letras decissorias de Nicolas Mathias de Ona, Senor de Bunales -Illuminated manuscript on parchment- - Upper cover (Davis710).jpg
Biblia Latina -Manuscript on parchment- - Upper cover (Davis654).jpg
Koran -with Persian translation-, -Persian illuminated manuscript written in Naskhi script- - Upper cover (Davis652).jpg
La joyeuse & magnifique entree de Monseigneur Francoys, fils de France, ... - Upper cover (c22c12).jpg
Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1496 =-l 461-=- l 1206-) - Upper cover (Add MS 37008).jpg
CICERO- 'De Officiis', written by Bartolomeo Sanvito; 1494. Latin . Origin- Italy. - Upper cover (low resolution) (Add Ms 6051).jpg
Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 272) - Upper Cover (Add ms 15581).jpg
-Letters. Letters written in Italian - Delle lettere - Upper cover (c65e17).jpg
"HENR-ICUS- DE BRACTONE" (16th cent. title), De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae. - Upper cover (Add Ms 41258).jpg
Title PARHAM MS III- Octateuch (Rahlfs 426), imperfect - Upper cover (Add MS 39585).jpg
Journal of the Extraordinary Embassy of his Excellence the Earl of Portland in France - Upper cover (c48l5).jpg
PARHAM MS XXVII- Isaiah of Scetis (Isaiah of Gaza), Asceticon (CPG 5555) - - Upper cover (Add MS 39609).jpg
Title Lectionary of the Acts and the Epistles (Gregory-Aland l 257, Scrivener apost. 69) - Upper cover (Add Ms 29714).jpg
Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia de sangre en propiedad apedimjento de Francisco Calderon -Manuscript on parchment- - Upper cover (Davis711).jpg
-Metamorphoses. Latin and French - Dispute des Armes d’Achille, tire´e du XIII - Upper cover (c48c15).jpg
New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 2484), with Euthalian apparatus - Upper cover (Add MS 38538).jpg
New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 2484), with Euthalian apparatus - Upper cover, inside (Add MS 38538).jpg
John Chrysostom, In Genesim homiliae 1-11, 21-33 (TLG 2062.112), imperfect - Upper cover. (Add MS 30518).jpg
"LIBER MISSALIS secundum consuetudinem sedis Valentie"- Missal of the see of Valencia in Spain, written (see f. 1 b) in 1477. - - Upper cover (Add MS 34663).jpg
Horae dive Virginis Mariae secundum verum usum Romanorum - Upper cover (Davis755).jpg
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The St Cuthbert Gospel of St John. (formerly known as the Stonyhurst Gospel) is the oldest intact European book. - Upper cover (Add Ms 89000).jpg
Horae - Upper cover (Davis500).jpg
Perspectiva corporum regularium. - Upper cover (c113hh2).jpg
Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland 2278 e) -possibly originated in Cyprus- with illuminated headpieces and portraits of the evangelists, and decorated canon tables. - Upper cover (Add Ms 37002).jpg
"AN Establishment of the numbers of men and of the numbers and natures of ye guns fitt to be made and confirm'd upon euery of his majesty's ships, according to ye opinion of ye principall o - Upper cover (Add Ms 29733).jpg
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Catholicon Anglicum -The manuscript contains the only known complete copy of the Catholicon Anglicum, a bilingual English-Latin dictionary compiled anonymously at some point during the fifte - Upper cover (Add MS 89074).jpg
Kurtze und warhaffe Beschreibung der Badenfahrt- welche ... Friderich, - Upper cover (c32e21).jpg
Bucolica - Upper cover (682f3).jpg
P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon - Upper cover (c131a6).jpg
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