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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.
Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs Ramesses II Portrait Pattern Design on 50 Piastres Egyptian Banknotes
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.
Girona, Spain - 18 July, 2024: Illustrated manuscript of the Beatus of Girona
The first chapter of Don Quixote
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
Old Victorian newspaper page, 1880s 19th Century, Rural notes, Legal, Theatres, Pastimes
this is very old Chinese traditional herbal medicine ancient book(Golden Mirror of Medicine),from qing dynasty have more than 200 years(maybe 18th century).the book records the use of acupuncture,herbal medicine and book of changes with chinese script.It is preserved complete by one chinese doctor of my grandfather.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Memorial brass in Norwich Cathedral, in Norwich, Norfolk, Eastern England. It commemorates Thomas Gooding and bears the grim warning, ‘All you that do this place pass bye: Remember death for you must dye: As you are now even so was I: And as I am so that you be: Thomas Gooding here do staye: Wayting for God’s judgement daye’. It attracts the attention of many fascinated and horriefied tourists!
Drollery on the lower margin of a medieval manuscript, showing a strange figure ringing two bells.
Text carved in sandstone 17th century Germany 1704
Yeha, Ethiopia - Feb 10, 2020: an orthodox priest shows a painted holy bible from the 14th century in the Great Temple of the Moon, privy to walia ibex in Yeha, Ethiopia
The Longmen Grottoes, located on bothsides of the Yi River to the south of the ancient capital of Luoyang, Henan province, comprise more than 2,300 caves and niches carved into the steep limestone cliffs over a 1km long stretch. These contain almost 110,000 Buddhist stone statues, more than 60 stupas and 2,800 inscriptions carved on steles. The grottoes and niches of Longmen contain the largest and most impressive collection of Chinese art of the late Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties (316-907). These works, entirely devoted to the Buddhist religion, represent the high point of Chinese stone carving. Here is the beautifl stone carvings of all kinds of Buddist figures.
Jerusalem, Israel - December 8, 2013: A Bible written in ancient Geez language in the in Ethiopian Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
Kings College Chapel grounds, Cambridge, England, UK. viewed from a public footpath on King's Parade. This image is heavily post processed to create a pencil drawing effect.
A closeup of a book in the National Library of Madrid
Vintage photograph of Woman dress as a medieval Queen, Victorian 19th Century. Berta Diosy, als Königin in Bank ban
Milan - The icon Jesus reproves the Scribes and Pharisees in the church Chiesa dei Santi Nereo e Achilleo by Iulian Rosu.
Campaign inscriptions in Pompeii at House of Aulus Trebius Valens\n( Lucreti ) Valentis fili
Durham, UK - 12 July, 2023: The shrine of St Cuthbert in Durham Cathedral, County Durham, England
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this is very old Chinese traditional herbal medicine ancient book(Golden Mirror of Medicine),from qing dynasty have more than 200 years(maybe 18th century).the book records the use of acupuncture,herbal medicine and book of changes with chinese script.It is preserved complete by one chinese doctor of my grandfather.
Old manuscript in Burgos cathedral
High resolution photograph of a detail from a painting of a Byzantine emperor in golden crown and jewels
Albaicin, Granada, Province of Granada, Andalusia, Spain. April 26, 2023. An ancient bible in the Granada Cathedral.
This vintage engraving depicts the ecclesiastical order of the Catholic Church in the 14th century. The Pope is shown at the center, flanked by cardinals, bishops, priests, and laypersons. Engraved by Huyot after the fresco painting at the Sienna Cathedral by Simone Memmi (1283 - 1349). Published in an 1878 history of the Middle Ages, it is now in the public domain.
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