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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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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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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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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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Rabbula Gospels

The Rabbula Gospels is an illuminated Syriac manuscript containing the four canonical Gospels. A scribal colophon dates...

Illuminated Gospel Syriac 6TH Century

9.0 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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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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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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Skylitzes Chronicle (Codex Matritensis)

The Madrid Skylitzes, also called the Codex Matritensis, is a twelfth-century Greek manuscript of the Synopsis of Histor...

12TH Century Byzantine Historical Greek

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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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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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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Tacuinum Sanitatis (Vienna Codex 2396)

The Tacuinum Sanitatis in Vienna, Codex 2396, is a late medieval illuminated manuscript concerned with health and daily...

Medieval Illuminated Botanical Medical

8.2 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