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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.
holy koran
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
Hofburg Brixen Bressanone, Italy
Ancient Greek text. Ancient Greek is the language of the empire of Alexander and the kingdom of the Diadochi, the Roman Empire. Background on the theme of ancient culture, archeology and history.
11th century copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle located in the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom in London, UK.
A closeup of an illuminated medieval manuscript on a  parchment with the historical Gregorian chant
Codex Calixtino inside the Church of the Collegiate Church of Santillana del Mar, Cantabria, Spain
Hand lettered vellum from a 1490 edition of the Book of Hours.
Old egyptian hieroglyphic carvings.
TURIN, ITALY - CIRCA MAY 2021: antique Medieval manuscript with ancient calligraphy.
Antique Quran Page
Choir Book about 1380 illumination by Don Simone Camaldolese. Made for monastery probably Tuscany.
The Holy Quran over Muslim Prayer Carpet
Pages of an ancient musical book written by hand by scribe monks in the south of Italy
Witness the artistry of Old Slavic writings, a testament to the rich cultural heritage of the monastery
Nepali scriptures details from a buddhist bell in Kathmandu.
Hebrew Jewish torah close up with Yad
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Top view of open holy bible
Historical ancient Inscriptions of Islamic language carved on the stone walls at Qutb Minar complex at Delhi.
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Ancient writing on a piece of paper
Page from old antique book, The Preface, That the English Langauge is as copious.  18th Century.
Sofer writing a sefer Torah in Hebrew. In the Torah's 613 commandments, the second to last is that every Jew should write a Sefer Torah in their lifetime.
Greek letters carved on a stone on tablet at Miletus.
A closeup of ancient greek inscriptions on a surface of a rock
Toro, Spain, April 06, 2024: Old book to read mass from the interior of the Collegiate Church of Toro
The Ancient Phœnician manuscript. The most first Alphabet in The World, The Middle East, c.1500–1200 B.C. || A sample of the Semitic text of the First Day of Creation (The Book of Genesis 1:1-5), the consonantal proto-writing [from right to left]: «In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness upon the face of the deep. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light…». — Real Ancient papyrus with applied the Ancient Phœnician Letters, sheet of parchment, Ragged scroll, handmade paper, textured canvas.
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
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