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Magna Carta (1215 original copies)

The surviving 1215 Magna Carta manuscripts are engrossments, formally written copies of a royal charter issued after neg...

Medieval Historical English Legal

9.83 Brilliant

2

Beowulf Manuscript (Nowell Codex)

The sole surviving medieval witness to the Old English epic Beowulf forms part of the Nowell Codex. Copied around the la...

Epic Literary 10TH Century Anglo Saxon

9.50 Brilliant

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Codex Regius (Poetic Edda)

The Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda is a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript containing a major collection of Old Norse my...

Mythology Icelandic 13TH Century Old Norse

9.50 Brilliant

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Codex Regius (Konungsbók)

Written on vellum in thirteenth-century Iceland, Codex Regius, also called Konungsbók, is the principal manuscript sourc...

Icelandic Vellum 13TH Century Old Norse

9.50 Brilliant

5

Très Riches Heures - Limbourg Brothers

Commissioned by Jean, Duke of Berry, in the early fifteenth century, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is an illumi...

French Illuminated Gothic 15TH Century

9.50 Brilliant

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Diamond Sutra (Dunhuang)

The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is a Chinese woodblock-printed scroll bearing a colophon dated 868 CE. It contains a Chinese...

Chinese Buddhist 9TH Century Dunhuang

9.47 Excellent

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Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp

Produced at the Safavid court in the sixteenth century, the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp presents Ferdowsi's Persian epic t...

Illuminated Literary Persian 16TH Century

9.46 Excellent

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Archimedes Palimpsest

The Archimedes Palimpsest preserves ancient Greek mathematics beneath the writing of a medieval Christian prayer book. I...

Mathematics Greek 10TH Century Parchment

9.36 Excellent

9

Florentine Codex

The Florentine Codex records Nahua life in New Spain through a 16th-century project directed by Franciscan friar Bernard...

Colonial 16TH Century Encyclopedic Aztec

9.34 Excellent

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Nag Hammadi Library

The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of thirteen papyrus codices discovered near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt in 1945....

Religious Gnostic Papyrus 4TH Century

9.33 Excellent

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Herculaneum Papyri

Approximately 1,800 carbonized papyrus scrolls recovered from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, Italy, buried by V...

Philosophical Roman Papyrus 1ST Century

9.29 Excellent

12

Dunhuang Manuscripts (Stein Collection)

A large cache of Buddhist and other texts in multiple languages sealed in Cave 17 at Dunhuang, China, and discovered in...

Chinese Buddhist Silk Road Papyrus

9.28 Excellent

13

Cairo Geniza Manuscripts

The Cairo Geniza manuscripts are a collection of more than 300,000 fragments preserved chiefly in the geniza of the Ben...

Documentary Medieval Hebrew Arabic 9TH 19TH Century

9.25 Excellent

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Vergilius Vaticanus

The Vergilius Vaticanus is an illustrated Latin manuscript containing portions of Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics, produced...

5TH Century Illustrated Roman Latin

8.91 Great

15

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

8.69 Great

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Ilias Ambrosiana

The Ilias Ambrosiana is an illustrated Greek manuscript of Homer's Iliad produced in late antiquity, probably in the lat...

5TH Century Byzantine Greek Illustrated

8.47 Great

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Vergilius Romanus

The Vergilius Romanus is an illuminated manuscript of works by the Roman poet Virgil, produced during late antiquity and...

5TH Century Illustrated Roman Latin

8.35 Great

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Quedlinburg Itala

The Quedlinburg Itala consists of surviving fragments from an illustrated Latin biblical manuscript made in late antiqui...

5TH Century Illuminated Biblical Roman

8.18 Great

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Codex Veronensis

Codex Veronensis is a purple-dyed parchment manuscript of the four Gospels in the Old Latin, or Vetus Latina, tradition,...

5TH Century Gospel Latin Parchment

8.05 Great

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Leiden Magical Papyrus

The Leiden Magical Papyrus is a manuscript from Roman-period Egypt containing ritual, medical, divinatory, and alchemica...

Magical Bilingual Papyrus 3RD Century

7.92 Good