swap_horiz Florentine Codex Alternatives

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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

Grimani Breviary

The Grimani Breviary is an extensively illuminated book of hours and liturgical offices produced in the southern Netherl...

Renaissance Illuminated 16TH Century Flemish

9.12 Excellent

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Codex Mendoza

The Codex Mendoza is a sixteenth-century manuscript created in colonial Mexico, probably during the early 1540s and asso...

Colonial 16TH Century Aztec Mesoamerican

9.05 Excellent

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Hamzanama

The Hamzanama is an illustrated Mughal manuscript recounting the legendary adventures of Amir Hamza. Commissioned by Emp...

Illuminated Literary 16TH Century Mughal

9.02 Excellent

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Borgia Codex

The Codex Borgia is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican screenfold manuscript associated with the group of ritual books named a...

Ritual 15TH Century Aztec Mesoamerican

8.91 Great

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Akbarnama

The Akbarnama is the official Persian-language chronicle of the Mughal emperor Akbar, composed by his court historian an...

Historical Illustrated Persian 16TH Century

8.82 Great

14

Spinola Hours

The Spinola Hours is a richly illuminated Flemish book of hours made in the Ghent-Bruges region during the early 16th ce...

Illuminated 16TH Century Flemish Book Of Hours

8.78 Great

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Razmnama (Mughal Mahabharata)

The Razmnama, or Book of War, is a Persian translation of the Sanskrit Mahabharata commissioned by the Mughal emperor Ak...

Illuminated Persian 16TH Century Mughal

8.69 Great

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Hortus Deliciarum

Hortus Deliciarum, or Garden of Delights, was a 12th-century illuminated encyclopedia compiled under Herrad of Landsberg...

German Medieval 12TH Century Illuminated

8.55 Great

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Khamsa of Nizami (BL Or. 6810)

The Khamsa of Nizami catalogued as British Library Oriental 6810 is a 16th-century Persian illuminated manuscript contai...

Illuminated Literary Persian 16TH Century

8.54 Great

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Golf Book (Book of Hours)

The Golf Book is a richly illuminated Flemish book of hours made around 1530 and generally attributed to the workshop of...

Illuminated 16TH Century Flemish Book Of Hours

8.39 Great

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Da Costa Hours

The Da Costa Hours is an illuminated Flemish book of hours made around 1515 and now held by the Morgan Library and Museu...

Illuminated 16TH Century Flemish Book Of Hours

8.28 Great

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Liber Floridus

The Liber Floridus is a medieval Latin encyclopedia compiled by Lambert, a canon of Saint-Omer, in the early twelfth cen...

Medieval 12TH Century Illuminated Encyclopedic

8.21 Great