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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.
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Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Fossacesia, Province of Chieti, Italy - 2 september 2024: Rest of a marble slab with Latin engravings located in the cloister - The abbey complex of S. Giovanni in Venere stands on a promontory overlooking cultivated fields and the Costa dei Trabocchi of the Adriatic Sea.
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.
TURIN, ITALY - CIRCA MAY 2021: antique Medieval manuscript with ancient calligraphy.
Text carved in sandstone 17th century Germany 1704
Hand lettered vellum from a 1490 edition of the Book of Hours.
Old Victorian newspaper page, 1880s, 19th Century
Ancient manuscript in codex, texture
Dublin, Ireland - July 16, 1986: 1980s old Positive Film scanned, Latin inscription concerning Jonathan Swift in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.
Drollery on the lower margin of a medieval manuscript, showing a dragon
St. Nicholas Church, located in the Demre district of Antalya, is a historic church. It's a significant pilgrimage site associated with Saint Nicholas, widely known as Santa Claus
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Famous stanza about the despair and futility of prison life, from The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde. From a pre-1942 edition of The Works of Oscar Wilde (the writer, playwright and wit who lived from 1854 to 1900): The vilest deeds like poison weeds,/ Bloom well in prison-air;/ It is only what is good in Man/ That wastes and withers there:/ Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,/ And the Warder is Despair.
Engraving from 1884 featuring the Japanese Buddhist monk from the 13th century, Nichiren.  He was miraculously saved from death by a shining light.
A closeup of an illuminated medieval manuscript on a  parchment with the historical Gregorian chant
Gothic inscriptions on the stone
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Background shot of a section of old English text
In brown marble, ancient Roman lettering makes this background image.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Roman text inscription on amphora found in Pompeii\nAb Apuleio Vero Nuce M (ille)? in parva amphora\nPL VIIII TP XII PLXLVII CEIAE GRATAE in amphora\nPhoto composition
Woman kept in a prison cell from an 1886 antique book \
old text letter as very nice hisroy texture
Colorful Medieval Bayeux Tapestry Bayeux Normandy France. Created 11th century right after Battle Hastings 1066 AD showing Norman Conquest England. Shows English King Harold
Facial Features Pattern Design on Banknote
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.
Admire the enigmatic allure of Old Slavic writings, preserved with care, narrating stories of a bygone era
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