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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.
Negro Primero(Pedro Camejo) Portrait Pattern Design on Venezuelan Bolivar Currency
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.
TURIN, ITALY - CIRCA MAY 2021: antique Medieval manuscript with ancient calligraphy.
Hands of a Tibetan monk with an ancient prayer book while he is reading in the assembly hall of a monastery in Central Tibet.
Niccolo Machiavelli a closeup portrait from Italian money - lire
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
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
A print from an old 18th century Bible of the flight to Egypt from Bethlehem in the Christmas story, Mary riding on a donkey with the Christ child.  A key story in the Christian faith.
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.
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!
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
Vladimir the Great Portrait Pattern Design on Ukrainian Banknote
Policarpa Salavarrieta portrait from Colombian money
Old Victorian newspaper page, Home, Theatre news, Scraps, 1870s, 19th Century
Scene in the olden time at Bolton Abbey engraved George Zobel after painting by Edwin Henry Landseer. Published in London on May 16, 1865 by William Tegg, Pancras Lane.
Famous astronomical clock and calendar, originally from 1425, in Lund Cathedral. \nLund Cathedral in Skåne, Sweden was opened in 1145 AD at a time when Skåne was a part of Denmark (until 1658). Denmark - and thus Lund - was catholic up until the protestant reformation in 1536. The cathedral was built in romanesque style.
Medium Shot of the Drawing of the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci Resting on an Easel in Renaissance Art Studio. Famous Piece Representing Science, Art, Health and Fitness. Scientist Studying it
Replica of an icelandic old text.
A closeup of a book in the National Library of Madrid
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Gomel, Belarus - April 20, 2013: Postage stamp. A stamp printed in UK shows image of The Angel Praying, circa 1998.
Old antique book with damaged cover, scuffed and torn, Manners customs sports of England, 1820s
Open old christian book in the Ipatievsky Monastery. Kostroma, Russia. May, 2013.
Admire the enigmatic allure of Old Slavic writings, preserved with care, narrating stories of a bygone era
Choir Book about 1380 illumination by Don Simone Camaldolese. Made for monastery probably Tuscany.
A framed version of the Apostles’ Creed 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. The Apostles’ Creed refers to the belief that each of the Twelve Apostles contributed towards its composition.
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