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TURIN, ITALY - CIRCA MAY 2021: antique Medieval manuscript with ancient calligraphy.
Mongolian Horse Race Pattern Design on Mongolian Banknote
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Replica of an icelandic old text.
Robed and hooded female figure enclosed within a magic circle of mysterious pagan and runic symbols.
XIII century illuminated code from Virgil's Aeneid, National Library in Naples, Italy.
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.
Illustrated ornate book cover for Orlando Furioso, an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto, illustrated by Gustave Dore
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.
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
Dublin, Ireland - July 16, 1986: 1980s old Positive Film scanned, Inscription next to kilKenny shop at Nassau Street, Dublin, Ireland.    “I who have copied down this story, or more accurately fantasy, do not credit the details of the story, or fantasy. Some things in it are devilish lies, and some are poetical figments; some seem possible and others not; some are for the enjoyment of idiots.”\n\n― Thomas Cahill
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.
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.
Husite soldiers from old Czechoslovak money - Koruna
Old Victorian newspaper page, 1880s, 19th Century
Herd of sheep asking if you have herd in a speech bubble with a mobile phone held up in the foreground in a chalkboard drawing. This is for a concept for learning about herd behaviour and the manipulation of herds by mobile propaganda.
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
Lexington battlefield memorial plaque in granite. Engraved granite with selective focus showing Lexington and the April 19 1775 date, a sacred place of the start of the American revolution.
A closeup of a book in the National Library of Madrid
The first chapter of Don Quixote
Old manuscript in Burgos cathedral
Old Victorian newspaper page, Home, Theatre news, Scraps, 1870s, 19th Century
Illustration made with acrylic of an Arab horseman on a horse.
Sign with a message in a garden store
Girona, Spain - 18 July, 2024: Illustrated manuscript of the Beatus of Girona
Thomas the Rhymer - conversation with a fairy  from an 1886 antique book \
A piece of an eighteenth-nineteenth century alchemy text from an artefact
Illustration from 19th century.
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