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Drollery on the lower margin of a medieval manuscript, showing a dragon
Facial Features Pattern Design on Banknote
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.
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.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
A closeup of an illuminated medieval manuscript on a  parchment with the historical Gregorian chant
Text carved in sandstone 17th century Germany 1704
Hand lettered vellum from a 1490 edition of the Book of Hours.
Texture Pattern Design on Banknote
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Leather Book Label , Italian, Monte Sancto, Dante, Petrercha
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.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Old Turkish islamic sultan symbol.  Tugra.
peace dove, detail of a wooden medieval altar in Langenzenn, Germany, franconia
Islamic Pattern Design on Banknote
Old manuscript in Burgos cathedral
Vintage Victorian bookplate, title, Atlas of Ancient Geography 19th Century
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
Old map.
Girona, Spain - 18 July, 2024: Illustrated manuscript of the Beatus of Girona
Campaign inscriptions in Pompeii at House of Aulus Trebius Valens\n( Lucreti ) Valentis fili
Jerusalem, Israel - December 8, 2013: A Bible written in ancient Geez language in the in Ethiopian Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
Cloud Texture Pattern Design on Banknote
Closeup of 20 Pound sterling banknote for design purpose
Hands of a Tibetan monk with an ancient prayer book while he is reading in the assembly hall of a monastery in Central Tibet.
A closeup of a book in the National Library of Madrid
An engraved stone plaque on a tomb in the floor of St Nicholas’ Chapel in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Eastern England. The current St Nicholas Chapel was built in the early 15th century as a ‘chapel of ease’ granted to the monks of the priory church of St Margaret (now King’s Lynn Minster).
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