swap_horiz Paris Codex (Peresianus) Alternatives

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Book of Kells

The Book of Kells is a medieval Irish gospel book created around 800 AD. It’s notable for its exceptionally detailed ill...

Academic Collection Medieval Insular Art

9.9 Brilliant

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Lindisfarne Gospels

The Lindisfarne Gospels is a medieval illuminated gospel book created around 700 AD at Lindisfarne Priory. This remarkab...

Medieval Insular Art Gospel Book Northumbrian

9.8 Brilliant

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Book of Kells (Digital Study Edition)

While the physical object is famous, the high-resolution digital study editions are invaluable for modern scholars. This...

Academic Insular Art Illuminated Manuscript Digital Resource

9.6 Brilliant

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Book of Durrow

The Book of Durrow is an early Irish illuminated manuscript dating from around 700 AD. It’s notable for its highly styli...

Academic Collection Insular Art Gospel Book

9.5 Brilliant

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The Book of Lindisfarne (High-Res Facsimile)

This premium facsimile captures the breathtaking artistry of the Lindisfarne Gospels, allowing users to study the vibran...

High Resolution Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Hiberno Saxon Art

9.5 Brilliant

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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 (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

9.5 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

9.5 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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Archimedes Palimpsest

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a medieval parchment manuscript whose original Greek mathematical texts were scraped and ov...

Mathematics Greek 10TH Century Parchment

9.4 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

9.3 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

9.3 Excellent

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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

9.3 Excellent

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Papyrus of Ani (Book of the Dead)

The Papyrus of Ani is an ancient Egyptian funerary manuscript created around 1250 BCE during the Nineteenth Dynasty for...

Egyptian Funerary Papyrus Hieroglyphic

9.2 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

9.1 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

8.9 Great

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Madrid Codex (Tro-Cortesianus)

The Madrid Codex, also known as the Tro-Cortesianus Codex, is one of the few surviving pre-Columbian Maya screenfold man...

Maya Ritual 15TH Century Mesoamerican

8.8 Great

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Grolier Codex

The Grolier Codex, officially renamed the Maya Codex of Mexico, is a pre-Columbian Maya screenfold manuscript generally...

Maya Astronomical 13TH Century Mesoamerican

8.2 Great