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Vintage page from an old book 1759
Nepali scriptures details from a buddhist bell in Kathmandu.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Illuminated antiquities and historical ruins at night - close-up - Ephesus Ancient City - İzmir / Turkey
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021: An historic manuscript, hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
Apollon Lairbenos Temple, dates back to 2nd century in Çal, Denizli, Turkey
Long inscription engraved in stone in uppercase letters in Latin in late renaissance script, 17th century monument in Bratislava
The sign on the school where the Bronte sisters taught in Haworth, Yorkshire, England, UK.
a vintage blank postcard sent from Japanese post office in Hankow, China in 1900s, ready for any usage of historic events background related to mail delievery description.
Detail with initial letter from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Old egyptian hieroglyphic carvings.
Old engraved writing found on the Greek island of Rhodes
Toronto, Canada - May 26, 2024: Ancient coat of arms symbol decorating the metal gate in Trinity Bellwoods Park.
Ancient manuscript in codex, texture
Sintra, Portugal - Oct. 3, 2023: The view of Pena Palace - Palácio Nacional da Pena, Sintra, Portugal.
Hand lettered vellum from a 1490 edition of the Book of Hours.
Admire the enigmatic allure of Old Slavic writings, preserved with care, narrating stories of a bygone era
10 23 2024 Vintage Old Afghan Church is The Church of St John the Evangelist, Navy Nagar Colaba Mumbai Maharashtra India
blank vintage Geman postcard sent from Hankow(Wuhan), China in 1905, a very good Japanese colonial mail background of overseas postal service, can be used for any usage for any historic situation.
Old marble placard with religious Latin text in a monastery, Lake Maggiore, Italy
Writing on the wall at the ruins of Ephesus, Turkey
Ancient Greek text. Ancient Greek is the language of the empire of Alexander and the kingdom of the Diadochi, the Roman Empire. Background on the theme of ancient culture, archeology and history.
Vintage book page, of Etymology, study of the history of words, English language, 18th Century
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.
Manuscript, drawings, inscriptions by Leonardo Da Vinci in the old book The Codice Sul Volo, by E. Rouveyre , 1940
ANTAKYA ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM, HATAY, TURKEY - May 25, 2008 - Ancient antique statues exhibited in the New Hatay Archaeological Museum. It is one of the leading museums in the world for its unique collection of the ancient history of Anatolia
A framed version of the Ten Commandments inside the pretty church of St Botolph in the village of Culpho, Suffolk, Eastern England. The church dates from the 14th century but has had much more recent sympathetic interior restoration.
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.
Text carved in sandstone 17th century Germany 1704
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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. - Lower 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. - Upper 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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
"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
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
Allegoriae super tabernaculum Moysi and Allegoriae super Leviticum - Lower Cover (Add ms 82947).jpg
Gallican Psalter with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter') - Lower Cover (Add ms 37768).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
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
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THE Four Gospels, in Latin ; with prefaces. Imperfect. Vellum. Written in Germany in the Xth or XIth cent. - Upper cover (Add Ms 21921).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
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 - Lower cover (Add Ms 17399).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. - Lower cover (Add ms 16961).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
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 - Lower cover (Add Ms 17426).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
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 - Lower cover (Add Ms 38820).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 - Lower cover (Add Ms 72460).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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
Gallican Psalter with canticles (the 'Lothar Psalter' or 'Lothaire Psalter') - Spine (Add ms 37768).jpg
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"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
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
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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
-Gospel book- - Lower Cover (Add. ms 11848).jpg
Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1496 =-l 461-=- l 1206-) - Lower cover (Add MS 37008).jpg
Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1496 =-l 461-=- l 1206-) - Lower cover, inside. (Add MS 37008).jpg
New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 2484), with Euthalian apparatus - Lower cover, inside (Add MS 38538).jpg
New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 2484), with Euthalian apparatus - Lower cover (Add MS 38538).jpg
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
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
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
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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 - Lower cover (Add MS 89074).jpg
Vitae patrum, in usum ministrorum verbi, quo ad eius fieri potuit repurgatae. - Upper cover (rb23a23914).jpg
P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon - Lower cover (c131a6).jpg
VALERII MAximi Romanorum exterorumque factorum et dictorum Memorabilium libri ix., cum libri decimi fragmento. On vellum; written by " Filipinus de Gandinonibus, fil. domini Zamboni," in the - Lower cover (Add Ms 14095).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
Gregorio XIII. Pont. Max. Pontificale Romanum ad omnes pontificias cæremonias, quibus nunc utitur sacrosancta R. E. accommodatum ... Nuper summa diligentia reuisum, emendatum & impressum. - lower cover (c47l10).jpg
-Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark, glossed. Ms- - Upper cover (Davis386).jpg
Gospel Lectionary in Modern Greek in the translation of Maximos Kallioupolites (d.1633), whose New Testament was printed posthumously in 1638 -17th century - Lower cover (Add MS 47774).jpg
GASPARINI BARZIZII, Pergamensis, philosophi et Oratorio, Epistolæ ad exercitationem accommodatæ, et Missiva;-Guiniforti Barzizii, -filii Gasparini,- juris civilis et artium doctoris, ac duca - Lower cover (Add Ms 14786).jpg
Almagetum - Lower cover (Davis406).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
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
Hore ad vsum trecensem. G.L. On vellum. -Paris - -Jean Morand- pour Ioffroy de marnef, 1493, le xiii. iour daoust. - Upper and lower cover and spine (IA40625).jpg
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ANTIPHONS, verses, and responses, for processions at various festivals. Latin. At f. 5 b is " Memoria passionis domini nostri Jesu Christi, incepta in ecclesia beate Marie ad gradus Colonien - Lower cover, low resolution (Add Ms 31386).jpg
JOHANN BUSCH, treatises relating to the order of canons regular of Windesem or Windesheim, in the form found in all MSS. except that at Gaesdonk, representing a revision of the original work - Lower cover (Add Ms 40882).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
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HORÆ B. Mariæ Virginis et alia Officia, ordine sequenti -Manuscript on parchment- - (Add Ms 14804).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
Part 1; Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter'), with a calendar, imperfect (lacking July and August), canticles, litany, and prayers Origin France, N. Date 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th centu - Lower cover (Sloane manuscript 2400).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
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
Moralia Hieronimi ab Hangesto- philosophi sacretheologie professoris. G.L. MS. notes. (ff. 74. Verundantur ab Joanne Paruo; impressum in Alma Parrhysiorum academia, 1521.) - - Lower cover (C54f7).jpg
Liber Ezechialis -manuscript on vellum- - Upper cover (Davis80).jpg
Bref et sommaire recueil de ce qui a este faict, & de-lordre teue-a la ioyeuse & triumphante Entree de tres-puissant ... Prince Charles IX. - Lower cover (c33m1).jpg
Voyage en divers etats d'Europe et d'Asie, entrepris pour découvrir un nouveau chemin à la Chine. Contenant plusieurs remarques curieuses de physique, de geographie, d'hydrographie & d'histo - Lower cover (G.16048).jpg
Presentation of a book to a king; the royal arms of England (France and England quarterly) in lower border; two female figures before a fire, and a kneeling figure beside a black-draped bed (f. 9r) Cropped.jpg
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
Historie Fiorentine di Niccolo Machiauelli, etc.- -Vinegia - In casa de' figliuoli di Aldo, 1540.- - Upper and lower cover and spine (C27d3).jpg
Le Livre des Statuts ... de l'Ordre du -Benoist Sainct Esprit, etc. - Lower cover (c29k3).jpg
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Les_Bygarrures_de_Cythe?re,_ou_les_caprices_de_l'amour._E?trennes_galantes_sur_les_airs_con?ues_et_choisie._-With_a_calendar_for_1787_and_with_plates.-_(2_pt._Paris,_-1786.-)_-_Lower_cover_(c97f6-6).jpg
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