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Detail of an old medieval  manuscript in sepia, shallow depth of field
Myanmar alphabet on stone
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.
Vintage paper address book or notebook. The paper is handmade
Collage using books, journal and Paint
Hand-written medical notes. Medical writing or publishing.
11th century copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle located in the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom in London, UK.
Jerusalem, Israel - December 8, 2013: A Bible written in ancient Geez language in the in Ethiopian Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
Sheet of old slightly yellowed lined note paper
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Old vintage handwriting, original, 1825, name, William Wigson, 19th Century ephemera
Drollery on the lower margin of a medieval manuscript, showing a dragon
Vintage paper with Arabic script writing
Vintage style paper texture background for decoupage crafting scrapbooking
Book Open to Title Page: The Decameron
A spread from my sketch book, inkwash and graphite with hand writing on the left side.
Handwriting from guest book 1916
Manuscript, drawings, inscriptions by Leonardo Da Vinci in the old book The Codice Sul Volo, by E. Rouveyre , 1940
Part of an old British handwritten cookery book with recipes for spring salad, meat burgers with April salad and potato cakes. The recipes date from World War Two when rationing was strict and food supplies were precious.
Pile of old papers with almost illegible handwriting. The paper and writing are more than eighty year old
An old leather cover of a vintage book with a gold border, isolated on a white background.
Aged handwritten manuscript text. Calligraphy on old paper, vintage background
Overhead view of a vintage journal open-wide with a full-page decoration,  on top of old scattered letters from the beginning of the 20th century.
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Antique brown leather hardcover book.
Ancient writing on a piece of paper
One of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.\nScratched into the wall of the hallway of house six (b) of insula nine, in region nine of the town\n\nPOEM : O utinam liceat collo complexa tenere\u2028braciola et teneris oscula ferre label(l)is\u2028i nunc, ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede\u2028crede mihi levis est natura virorum\u2028saepe ego cu(m) media vigilare(m) perdita nocte\u2028haec mecum medita(n)s: multos Fortuna quos supstulit alte,\u2028hos modo proiectos subito praecipitesque premit.\u2028sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum\u2028dividit lux et se...\nTranslation : Oh, if only I could hold your little arms wrapped around my neck\u2028and press kisses to your tender little lips.\u2028Go then, little doll, trust your happiness to the winds.\u2028Believe me, the nature of men[c] is fickle.\u2028Often I would lie awake, lost in the middle of the night,\u2028Thinking to myself: many whom Fortune has lifted up high,\u2028those, suddenly hurled away/abandoned and falling headlong, she then oppresses.\u2028So too, after Venus has unexpectedly joined the bodies of lovers,\u2028daylight divides them and...\nPhoto composition
A possible first century Greek Manuscript of the New Testament, published as a facsimile by Constantine Simonides in 1861. Simonides was a convicted forger and although this facsimile was denounced as a forgery, it has never been proven.
A blank notepad on a wooden table
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