swap_horiz Skylitzes Chronicle (Codex Matritensis) 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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St. Cuthbert Gospel

The St. Cuthbert Gospel is an early medieval illuminated gospel book dating to approximately 700 AD. Produced in Northum...

Textbook Insular Art Gospel Book Northumbrian

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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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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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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Jami al-Tawarikh (Rashiduddin)

The Jami al-Tawarikh, or Compendium of Chronicles, is a universal history compiled under the direction of Rashid al-Din,...

Historical Illustrated Persian 14TH 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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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

8.8 Great

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Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus (BnF gr. 510)

The Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus, catalogued as Bibliotheque nationale de France grec 510, is a richly illuminated B...

Illuminated Byzantine Religious Greek

8.8 Great

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Khludov Psalter

The Khludov Psalter is an illustrated Byzantine manuscript produced in Greek around the middle of the ninth century. Now...

Byzantine Psalter Greek Illustrated

8.7 Great

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Chludov Psalter

The Chludov Psalter is a ninth-century Byzantine illuminated manuscript containing the Greek text of the Psalms accompan...

Illuminated Byzantine Psalter Greek

8.7 Great

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Nuremberg Chronicle (Schedelsche Weltchronik)

The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated world history compiled by the physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel and prin...

German Historical Illustrated Incunabulum

8.6 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

8.5 Great

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Theodore Psalter

The Theodore Psalter is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript produced in 1066 at the Studios Monastery in Constantinople....

Byzantine Psalter Greek Illustrated

8.3 Great

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Historia Regum Britanniae (Geoffrey of Monmouth)

Historia Regum Britanniae, or History of the Kings of Britain, is a Latin chronicle written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in t...

12TH Century Historical British Literary

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

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Sinope Gospels

The Sinope Gospels are surviving fragments of a 6th-century Greek Gospel book written in gold ink on purple-dyed parchme...

Illuminated Byzantine Greek 6TH Century

8.1 Great