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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.
JAIPUR, INDIA - OCT 11, 2017 - Scenes from the Ramayana in antique manuscript,  Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Historical ancient manuscript Holy Quran
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
11th century copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle located in the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom in London, UK.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Top view of open holy bible
A book from the 1600s - in latin.
Vintage blank postcard background sent from Kyobashi, tokyo ofJapan in early 1900s, a very good background for any usage of the historic postcard communications.
A closeup of a book in the National Library of Madrid
Pompeii fresco painting decorative art
Detail of a letter on a page from a 14th Century Latin Vulgate Bible, written in England on vellum.  The capital letter is illuminated with gold and decorated with white tracery. (Fragment 13) From the Reed Rare Books Collection in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Toro, Spain, April 06, 2024: Old book to read mass from the interior of the Collegiate Church of Toro
Open old christian book in the Ipatievsky Monastery. Kostroma, Russia. May, 2013.
Holy Koran
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.
A framed version of the Ten Commandments 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.
Closeup of 10 Bulgarian lev banknote for design purpose
blank vintage Geman postcard sent from Hankow(Wuhan), China  in 1905, a very good Japanese colonial mail background of overseas postal service, can be used for any usage for any historic situation.
Ancient writing on a piece of paper
A double page spread  taken from a Home Physician book of 1880, photoshopped with an old poetry book and some nice borders.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Song Dynasty Book on Forensic Skills, Witness to a Prosecution.
Hand lettered vellum from a 1490 edition of the Book of Hours.
Vintage Edward VII Antique British half penny postage Stamp, postmark Cheltenham 1902
Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia
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
Antique black hardcover book.
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