swap_horiz Hengwrt Decameron Alternatives

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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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Codex Regius (Konungsbók)

Codex Regius, also called Konungsbók, is an Icelandic vellum manuscript written in the 13th century and preserved at the...

Icelandic Vellum 13TH Century Old Norse

9.5 Brilliant

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Très Riches Heures - Limbourg Brothers

The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is an illuminated Book of Hours commissioned by Jean, Duke of Berry, in the early...

French Illuminated Gothic 15TH Century

9.5 Brilliant

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Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp

The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp is a lavishly illustrated manuscript of Ferdowsi's Persian epic, produced at the Safavid c...

Illuminated Literary Persian 16TH Century

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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Blue Quran

The Blue Quran is a dispersed Quran manuscript written in gold Kufic script on parchment dyed a deep blue, with silver u...

Quran Arabic Vellum Gold Ink

9.1 Excellent

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Ellesmere Manuscript (Canterbury Tales)

The Ellesmere Manuscript is an early 15th-century illuminated copy of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and one of the...

Illuminated Literary English 15TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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Pearl Manuscript (Cotton Nero A.x)

The Pearl Manuscript, catalogued as Cotton Nero A.x, is a late 14th-century Middle English codex held by the British Lib...

Illuminated Literary 14TH Century Middle English

9.0 Excellent

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Flateyjarbók (GKS 1005 fol.)

Flateyjarbók, catalogued as GKS 1005 fol., is a large Icelandic vellum manuscript compiled between 1387 and 1394. Its Ol...

Saga Icelandic Vellum 14TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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Great Mongol Shahnameh

The Great Mongol Shahnameh, also called the Demotte Shahnameh, is an extensively illustrated Persian manuscript produced...

Illuminated Literary Persian 14TH Century

9.0 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

9.0 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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Belles Heures of Jean de Berry

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duke of Berry, is an illuminated book of hours made in the early 15th century by th...

French Illuminated Gothic 15TH Century

8.9 Great

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Hours of Catherine of Cleves

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is a richly illuminated Dutch Book of Hours made around 1440 for Catherine of Cleves, D...

Illuminated Gothic Dutch 15TH Century

8.9 Great

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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

8.9 Great

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Hours of Étienne Chevalier (Fouquet)

The Hours of Etienne Chevalier is a French Book of Hours illuminated by Jean Fouquet for Etienne Chevalier, treasurer to...

French Renaissance Illuminated 15TH Century

8.9 Great

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Maqamat of al-Hariri (BnF Arabe 5847)

BnF Arabe 5847 is an illustrated Arabic manuscript of the Maqamat, a collection of rhymed-prose tales by al-Hariri cente...

Illuminated Literary Arabic 13TH Century

8.9 Great

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Hengwrt Chaucer

The Hengwrt Chaucer is an early manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, copied around the beginning of the 15...

Literary English Vellum 15TH Century

8.8 Great

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Demotte Shahnameh

The Demotte Shahnameh, also called the Great Mongol Shahnameh, is a lavishly illustrated Persian manuscript produced und...

Illuminated Literary Persian 14TH Century

8.8 Great

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Decameron (Paris BnF It. 63)

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Italien 63 is an illustrated manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. Prod...

Italian Illuminated Literary 15TH Century

7.9 Good