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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.
High resolution photograph of a detail from a portrait of an Turkish ottoman man with a handlebar moustache
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
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.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Illustration from 19th century.
old text letter as very nice hisroy texture
This is the original Joker playing card from the 'Shakespeare' 1895 deck, produced by Bernhard Dondorf in Germany for the London company C. W. Faulkner & Co. This card shows the Joker riding on the back of a donkey. Curiously, the quotation at the bottom 'Laugh and the world laughs with you' is not from Shakespeare, but from (Solitude) by 19th century poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. After 1902, this deck was published by Dondorf with different Jokers and plain Aces of Spades as 'No 192'. C. W. Faulkner and Co. operated from Golden Lane in London, EC1. From 1882 they worked as lithographers, and also printed in gravure. Their best-quality playing cards were those printed in Germany, some by Dondorf, prior to the First World War. C. W. Faulkner and Co. were best known for their postcards and greetings cards, including Misfitz, which they produced until about 1920. The company closed in 1956.
Old Victorian newspaper page, 1880s, 19th Century
Girona, Spain - 18 July, 2024: Illustrated manuscript of the Beatus of Girona
Replica of an icelandic old text.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
A closeup of a book in the National Library of Madrid
Thomas the Rhymer - conversation with a fairy  from an 1886 antique book \
Illustration made with acrylic of an Arab horseman on a horse.
Old Victorian newspaper page, notices and advert, 1870, 19th Century
King Solomon in the old book The Bible in Pictures, by G. Doreh, 1897
XIII century illuminated code from Virgil's Aeneid, National Library in Naples, Italy.
Durham, UK - 12 July, 2023: The shrine of St Cuthbert in Durham Cathedral, County Durham, England
This vintage engraving from a 15th century manuscript depicts the epic battle for Jerusalem led by Charlemagne, King of Franks (742 - 814) in the Crusades of the Middle Ages. He is often regarded as the Father of Europe. Engraved by an unknown artist, it was published in an 1878 history of the Middle Ages and is now in the public domain.
Sheikh Omar al-Mukhtar (about ca. 1860-1931), national hero of Libya. Portrait from Libya 10 Dinar 2015 Banknotes
Medieval Man on horse back with page boy, with framed area, from an 1886 antique book \
Jerusalem, Israel - December 8, 2013: A Bible written in ancient Geez language in the in Ethiopian Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
Old Victorian newspaper page, Home, Theatre news, Scraps, 1870s, 19th Century
Old manuscript in Burgos cathedral
250 years old legal document
medieval story telling painted on a white wall in Arhus cathedral, Denmark, June 21, 2015
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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
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