swap_horiz Vercelli Book Alternatives

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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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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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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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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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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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Lichfield Gospels

The Lichfield Gospels are a medieval Irish-Saxon manuscript dating to approximately 800 AD. This illuminated gospel book...

Medieval Insular Art Gospel Book Welsh

9.0 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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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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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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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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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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Gospels of Otto III

The Gospels of Otto III is an Ottonian illuminated Gospel book produced around the year 1000, probably at the monastery...

Illuminated Gospel Imperial 10TH 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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Junius Manuscript

The Junius Manuscript is a late tenth-century illustrated codex of Old English religious poetry, now held by the Bodleia...

Biblical Poetry 10TH Century Anglo Saxon

8.5 Great

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Piers Plowman (Trinity MS B.15.17)

Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17 is a late medieval manuscript containing William Langland's Middle English allegori...

Literary Religious 14TH Century Middle English

8.3 Great