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Macro of a page from a book.  With the word love in the centre of the photo, and other words slightly out of focus. You can clear see the texture of the paper.
Hand lettered vellum from a 1490 edition of the Book of Hours.
Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
Illuminated antiquities and historical ruins at night - Ephesus Ancient City - İzmir / Turkey
Detail with initial letter from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Christian Bible open to the poetic Ecclesiastes 3:1 declaring that to everything there is a season: a time to be born and a time to die.
TURIN, ITALY - CIRCA MAY 2021: antique Medieval manuscript with ancient calligraphy.
Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Ostroh, Ukraine, June 3, 2022. The text of the prayer Our Father in ancient Greek and in Old Slavonic in an ancient book
Ancient manuscript in codex, texture
Old Victorian newspaper page, 1880s, 19th Century
A possible first century Greek Manuscript of the New Testament, published as a facsimile by Constantine Simonides in 1861. Simonides was a convicted forger and although this facsimile was denounced as a forgery, it has never been proven.
Ancient greek script
Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Text carved in sandstone 17th century Germany 1704
Script from a 1684 Indenture.
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.
Background shot of a section of old English text
Vintage book page, of Etymology, study of the history of words, English language, 18th Century
A Shakespeare love sonnet as it was originally printed. Sonnet 119 is actually 116, but the original print had a typo.
Famous stanza about the despair and futility of prison life, from The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde. From a pre-1942 edition of The Works of Oscar Wilde (the writer, playwright and wit who lived from 1854 to 1900): The vilest deeds like poison weeds,/ Bloom well in prison-air;/ It is only what is good in Man/ That wastes and withers there:/ Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,/ And the Warder is Despair.
Old Latin text engraved on stone latin characters words
Classical Greek  inscription Background
Drollery on the lower margin of a medieval manuscript, showing a dragon
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
Fossacesia, Province of Chieti, Italy - 2 september 2024: Rest of a marble slab with Latin engravings located in the cloister - The abbey complex of S. Giovanni in Venere stands on a promontory overlooking cultivated fields and the Costa dei Trabocchi of the Adriatic Sea.
In brown marble, ancient Roman lettering makes this background image.
Gothic inscriptions on the stone
Do you mean it.. Of course, Close up a book page, Literature, Words
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