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Page from a 15th Century Book of Hours, written in France on vellum, showing Joseph and Mary taking Jesus to Egypt. (Fragment 19) From the Reed Rare Books Collection in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Memorial brass in Norwich Cathedral, in Norwich, Norfolk, Eastern England. It commemorates Thomas Gooding and bears the grim warning, ‘All you that do this place pass bye: Remember death for you must dye: As you are now even so was I: And as I am so that you be: Thomas Gooding here do staye: Wayting for God’s judgement daye’. It attracts the attention of many fascinated and horriefied tourists!
Girona, Spain - 18 July, 2024: Illustrated manuscript of the Beatus of Girona
One of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.\nScratched into the wall of the hallway of house six (b) of insula nine, in region nine of the town\n\nPOEM : O utinam liceat collo complexa tenere\u2028braciola et teneris oscula ferre label(l)is\u2028i nunc, ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede\u2028crede mihi levis est natura virorum\u2028saepe ego cu(m) media vigilare(m) perdita nocte\u2028haec mecum medita(n)s: multos Fortuna quos supstulit alte,\u2028hos modo proiectos subito praecipitesque premit.\u2028sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum\u2028dividit lux et se...\nTranslation : Oh, if only I could hold your little arms wrapped around my neck\u2028and press kisses to your tender little lips.\u2028Go then, little doll, trust your happiness to the winds.\u2028Believe me, the nature of men[c] is fickle.\u2028Often I would lie awake, lost in the middle of the night,\u2028Thinking to myself: many whom Fortune has lifted up high,\u2028those, suddenly hurled away/abandoned and falling headlong, she then oppresses.\u2028So too, after Venus has unexpectedly joined the bodies of lovers,\u2028daylight divides them and...\nPhoto composition
Old page of a medieval latin script
Old Victorian newspaper page, 1880s, 19th Century
Open old christian book in the Ipatievsky Monastery. Kostroma, Russia. May, 2013.
St. Nicholas Church, located in the Demre district of Antalya, is a historic church. It's a significant pilgrimage site associated with Saint Nicholas, widely known as Santa Claus
Illustration in 15th Century French Book of Hours, showing Joseph and Mary fleeing to Egypt. Photographed at the Dunedin Public Library, New Zealand and used with permission from curators of  the Reed Collection.
An antique copy of the Hebrew scriptures and New Testament Bible from the 1800's.  Detail shot of the Lord's Prayer as taught to his disciples.
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Greek letters carved on a stone on tablet at Miletus.
Hand lettered vellum from a 1490 edition of the Book of Hours.
Old Victorian newspaper page, Home, Theatre news, Scraps, 1870s, 19th Century
Aged handwritten manuscript text. Calligraphy on old paper, vintage background
Campaign inscriptions in Pompeii at House of Aulus Trebius Valens\n( Lucreti ) Valentis fili
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
The old manuscript with handwriting
Admire the enigmatic allure of Old Slavic writings, preserved with care, narrating stories of a bygone era
Jerusalem, Israel - December 8, 2013: A Bible written in ancient Geez language in the in Ethiopian Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
Old page of text from a book on the history of Spain
Ancient manuscript in codex, texture
Roman text inscription on amphora found in Pompeii\nAb Apuleio Vero Nuce M (ille)? in parva amphora\nPL VIIII TP XII PLXLVII CEIAE GRATAE in amphora\nPhoto composition
New Orleans, USA - Dec 11, 2017: Ancient biblical text page opened on public display at the iconic St. Louis Cathedral at the French Quarter. Feature ornate decorative drawings and artful manuscripts.
Ancient greek script
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