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Beowulf Manuscript (Nowell Codex)

The Beowulf manuscript is the sole surviving medieval witness to the Old English epic poem Beowulf. It forms part of the...

Epic Literary 10TH Century Anglo Saxon

9.5 Brilliant

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Exeter Book

The Exeter Book is a late tenth-century manuscript and the largest surviving collection devoted to Old English poetry. I...

Literary Poetry 10TH Century Anglo Saxon

9.2 Excellent

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Vienna Dioscurides

The Vienna Dioscurides is an early sixth-century Byzantine illuminated manuscript containing Dioscorides' De materia med...

Illuminated Byzantine Botanical Greek

9.2 Excellent

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De Materia Medica (Juliana Anicia Codex)

The Juliana Anicia Codex is an early sixth-century Byzantine illuminated copy of Dioscorides' pharmacological work De ma...

Byzantine Botanical Medical Greek

9.2 Excellent

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Leningrad Codex (Codex Leningradensis)

The Leningrad Codex is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in the Masoretic textual tradition that remain...

Biblical Hebrew Parchment 11TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Bodmer Papyri P75

Papyrus 75, commonly called P75 and now catalogued as Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV, is an early Greek papyrus codex containing...

Greek Biblical Papyrus 3RD Century

9.1 Excellent

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Chester Beatty Papyri P45-P47

The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri are early Christian manuscripts in Greek acquired by collector Alfred Chester Beatty...

Greek Biblical Papyrus 3RD Century

9.1 Excellent

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Sana'a Quran Manuscript

The Sana'a Quran manuscripts are early Quranic fragments discovered in 1972 during restoration work at the Great Mosque...

Quran Arabic Parchment Palimpsest

9.1 Excellent

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Bodmer Papyri P66

Papyrus 66, also called P66 and included among the Bodmer Papyri, is an early Greek papyrus codex containing most of the...

Greek Biblical Papyrus 2ND 3RD Century

9.0 Excellent

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Fra Mauro Map

The Fra Mauro Map is a large circular world map produced in Venice around the middle of the 15th century and traditional...

Venetian 15TH Century Parchment Cartographic

9.0 Excellent

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Rossano Gospels (Codex Purpureus Rossanensis)

The Rossano Gospels, or Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, is a 6th-century Greek Gospel book written in silver and gold ink o...

Illuminated Byzantine Greek 6TH Century

8.9 Great

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Papyrus P52 (Rylands Library Papyrus)

Papyrus P52, also called the Rylands Library Papyrus, is a small Greek fragment from a codex of the Gospel of John. It p...

Greek Biblical Papyrus 2ND Century

8.9 Great

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Vienna Genesis

The Vienna Genesis is a fragmentary illuminated Greek manuscript of the Book of Genesis, usually dated to the 6th centur...

Illuminated Byzantine Greek 6TH Century

8.9 Great

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Mappa Mundi (Hereford)

The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a large medieval world map made on a single sheet of animal skin around 1300 and preserved a...

Medieval English 13TH Century Parchment

8.9 Great

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John Rylands Papyrus (P52)

The John Rylands Papyrus P52 is a small Greek papyrus fragment containing portions of John 18:31-33 and 18:37-38. Common...

Greek Biblical Papyrus 2ND Century

8.9 Great

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Paris Psalter (BnF gr. 139)

The Paris Psalter, catalogued as Bibliotheque nationale de France grec 139, is a Byzantine Greek manuscript conventional...

Illuminated Byzantine Psalter Greek

8.9 Great

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Menologion of Basil II

The Menologion of Basil II is an illuminated Byzantine manuscript commissioned for Emperor Basil II around the turn of t...

Illuminated Byzantine Greek 11TH Century

8.9 Great

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Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus

Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus is a fifth-century Greek biblical manuscript and a palimpsest, meaning its original writing wa...

5TH Century Greek Biblical Christian

8.7 Great

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Codex Washingtonianus

Codex Washingtonianus is a Greek parchment manuscript of the four canonical Gospels, generally dated to the fourth or fi...

Gospel Greek Biblical Parchment

8.3 Great

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Joshua Roll

The Joshua Roll is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript produced in the 10th century and preserved in the Vatican Apostoli...

Byzantine Greek Illustrated 10TH Century

8.3 Great