Ancient Manuscript Pages

A collection of vintage text pages featuring Latin script. Includes inhabited initials and various manuscript styles, with a historical and scholarly aesthetic.

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Landrecht book 3

MILAGROS DE NUESTRA SEÑORA, PÀGINA CXVII. Author: GONZALO DE BERCEO (1190-). Location: ACADEMIA DE LA HISTORIA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPANIEN.

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Large opening initial with miniature of Jerome and border design. 3-line blue and red initials, placemarkers.. 1450 - 1475. text. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division

Folio 287v, Bavaria, Germany, created in 1402

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Decorated Initial E. Unknown

Chart; Virgil Master (French, active about 1380 - 1420); Paris, France; about 1405; Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 39 x 30.5 cm (15 3,8 x 12 in.)

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Landrecht book 3

Illuminated manuscript of the Georgian-language Gospels by Anonymous master Bibliotheque Nationale de France Between 1201 and 1300 Ink on parchment Georgia Medieval art History Book Art

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Sheet 147.A from: The Dresdner's handwriting of the chronicle of the Thietmar of Merseburg. 1012-1018; Facsimile pressure 1905. Dresden: Slub Hist.Germ.Univ.119-2

MS B.R.20 - CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA - Nº246 - F1V - TEXTO - ESTROFA EN VERSO GALAICO PORTUGUES - SIGLO XIII. Author: Alfonso X of Castile. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL COLECCIÓN. Florenz. ITALIA.

Folio 323r, Bavaria, Germany, 1402

TRATADO DE ASTRONOMIA DE AZARQUEL Y OTROS ASTRONOMOS-MS 10009- S XI. Author: AZARQUEL. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

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Landrecht book 3

Decorated Text Page; Nicomedia (or), Turkey; early 13th century; Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment; Leaf: 20.6 x 14.9 cm (8 1,8 x 5 7,8 in.)

Decorated Initial N. Unknown

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Country law book 2

Landrecht book 3

Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript. 14th century

Landrecht book 3

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LATIN MANUSCRIPT: SIGNATURA 10016. TABLES OF AL-JWARIUZMI. SHEET 8 RO. THE CANONES BEGIN. MEDIEVAL DOCUMENT. (EXHIBITION THE SCIENTIFIC LEGACY OF AL-ANDALUS) (LOCATION: NATIONAL LIBRARY).

MTI1 - CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA Nº8 - 15R - TEXTO -ESTROFA EN VERSO GALAICO PORTUGUES - SIGLO XIII. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Folio f 143r. Codex Madrid II (Ms. 8936) "Treaty of fortification, statics and geometry". 158 folios with 316 pages. Internal format: 210 x 145 mm. APPLIED MECHANICS (MACHINES AND WITS). OBSERVATION OF NATURE. TOPOGRAPHIC REFERENCES. SCULPTURE AND FOUNDRY. MENTION OF MATERIALS. METALLURGY. Museum: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA, MADRID. Author: LEONARDO DA VINCI.

BEATO DE SILOS-MAS ANTIGUO CONSERVADO-S X-FOLIO SUELTO-APERTURA 5ºSELLO-. Author: BEATO DE LIEBANA. Location: MONASTERIO. BURGOS. SPAIN.

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Moralia, sive Expositio in Job, Magna Moralia, siglo X.

Biblia de Sant Pere de Rodas, siglo XI. Museum: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

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Lectionary of the Acts and Epistles. text. Religious books, Manuscripts. 1375 - 1400. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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York Missal C. 1400-1450 Manuscripts Vellum On Card The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA

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Chart; Virgil Master (French, active about 1380 - 1420); Paris, France; about 1405; Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 39 x 30.5 cm (15 3,8 x 12 in.)

Opening page of the Gospel, fol. 3., 1401 - 1500 ., Russia

A manuscript page from Bavaria, Germany, dated 1402. The page is labeled as fol. 205v

Canon Table Page. Date/Period: Ca. 1120 - 1140. Folio. Tempera colors, gold, and silver on parchment. Height: 229 mm (9.01 in); Width: 165 mm (6.49 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

Country law book 2

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Canon Table Page. Date/Period: Ca. 1120 - 1140. Folio. Tempera colors, gold, and silver on parchment. Height: 229 mm (9.01 in); Width: 165 mm (6.49 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

MIsal San Juan Abadesas, S.XII. Sacramentario de Ponce de Mulnells, obispo de Tortosa (1165-1193).

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BIBLIA DE AVILA - CODICE SIGLO XIII - LETRA J. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Decorated Incipit Page. Unknown

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Lectionary of the Acts and Epistles. text. Religious books, Manuscripts. 1375 - 1400. Manuscripts and Archives Division

Libbretto nouellamete composto per maestro Domenico da Sera...lauorare di ogni sorte di punti, page 22 (recto) April 12, 1532 Domenico da Sera French Published by Domenico da Sera Lyons.From top to bottom, and left to right:Poem printed in black.. Libbretto nouellamete composto per maestro Domenico da Sera...lauorare di ogni sorte di punti, page 22 (recto) 662881

Chart. Virgil Master (French, active about 1380 - 1420)

COMENTARIOS AL APOCALIPSIS. Author: BEATO DE LIEBANA. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

HOMILIES D'ORGANYA (finales s. XII-inicios s. XIII) Primer texto importante, en prosa, de la lengua catalana. Se trata de un sermonario de ocho hojas explicando y comentando el evangelio. Se ha relacionado con las disposiciones de los Concilios de Reims y Tours (813), que pedía a los clérigos que predicasen en la lengua que entendiesen y hablasen los feligreses. Biblioteca de Cataluña. Barcelona.

Gospel Book with Commentaries: Portrait of Matthew, c. 1000-1100. Byzantium, Constantinople, 11th century. Ink, tempera, gold and vellum; leather binding; sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.).

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Bible. Date/Period: Ca. 1280 - 1290. Manuscript. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with modern red velvet. Height: 375 mm (14.76 in); Width: 248 mm (9.76 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

Russia, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Goritzy. Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, founded in 1397 by St. Cyril. Icon & Monastery Museum, original 1736 manuscript.

Manuscript Leaf with Initial I, from an Antiphonary 15th century Italian. Manuscript Leaf with Initial I, from an Antiphonary 466786

Decorated Incipit Page.

MANUS DE OSUNA SXV LIBRO DE ALEXANDRE PAGINA. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Inhabited Initial V. Unknown

Folio f 31r. Codex Madrid II (Ms. 8936) "Treaty of fortification, statics and geometry". 158 folios with 316 pages. Internal format: 210 x 145 mm. PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS, CINEMATICS, DYNAMICS. CIVIL ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION. MILITARY ENGINEERING, FORTIFICATIONS. Museum: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA, MADRID. Author: LEONARDO DA VINCI.

PRIVILEGIO OTORGADO POR LOS REYES CATOLICOS A RODRIGO PONCE DE LEON MARQUES DE CADIZ Y CONDE DE ARCOS EN 1484. Location: ARCHIVO HISTORICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Decorated Text Page.

Decorated Initial Is. Unknown

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Decorated Incipit Page; Lake Van, Turkey; 1386; Black ink and watercolors on paper bound between wood boards covered with dark brown kidskin; Leaf: 24 × 16.5 cm (9 7,16 × 6 1,2 in.)

Noah's Ark; Master of Jean de Mandeville (French, active 1350 - 1370); Paris, France; about 1360 - 1370; Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 34.9 x 26 cm (13 3,4 x 10 1,4 in.)

Folio 160, Recto. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

Landrecht book 3

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Explicit of text and date of copying in scribe's hand. 1375 - 1399. Boethius, -524. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division

The Book of Kells, 8th cent. Qui Fuit page, IRELAND.

CODICE ALBELDELSE O VIGILANO AÑO 974-976 - MOZARABE FOL 17V - PROCEDENTE DE SAN MARTIN DE ALBELDA. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

MS B.R.20- CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA - Nº271 - F58V - TEXTO - ESTROFA EN VERSO GALAICO PORTUGUES - SIGLO XIII. Author: Alfonso X of Castile. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL COLECCIÓN. Florenz. ITALIA.

PENTATEUCO ARAMEO. "TARGUM DE ONGELOS". Manuscrito copiado en parte por Alfonso de Zamora en el siglo XIV con adiciones del siglo XVI. Universidad Complutense. Madrid.

Chart; Virgil Master (French, active about 1380 - 1420); Paris, France; about 1405; Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 39 x 30.5 cm (15 3,8 x 12 in.)

Junius Brutus (); Zodiacal Sign of Gemini; Hildesheim, Germany; probably 1170s; Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 28.2 × 18.9 cm (11 1,8 × 7 7,16 in.)

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Canon table with decorative arches.. 865 - 899. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Arches

CANÇONER JARDINET DE GROTS - MS 151 - F 125. Location: UNIVERSIDAD BIBLIOTECA. Barcelona. SPAIN.

Country law book 2

Four Young Birds in a Nest. Unknown

Compendium, manuscript, USA, Chicago, Newberry Library

LA REPUBLICA-PAGINA CON NARRACIONES-PALIMPSESTO. Author: MARCO TULIO CICERON (106-43 A. C.). Location: BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA-COLECCION. VATICANO.

Decorated Incipit Page. Date/Period: 1637/1638. Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf on parchment. Width: 18.3 cm. Height: 25.2 cm. Author: UNKNOWN.

Edict of the Lombard King Rothari of the year 643, the oldest manuscript of the Lombard Laws, written between 671 and 736, preserved in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen, woodcut, Switzerland, Europe

Canon Table Page. Date/Period: Ca. 1120 - 1140. Folio. Tempera colors, gold, and silver on parchment. Height: 229 mm (9.01 in); Width: 165 mm (6.49 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

The two boys and the butcher cont.; The fox and the monkey king.. 1480. Aesop. Manuscripts, Illuminations, Miniatures (illuminations). Spencer Collection

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LIBER IUDICIORUM POPULARIS - VISIGODO. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

A Dove. Unknown

Aelianus, De instruendis;Illum.

GENEALOGIA DE LOS REYES DE ESPAÑA - ATAULFO REY GODO (410-415). Author: CARTAGENA ALONSO DE. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. ATHAULF. SIGERICO.

Lectionary of the Acts and Epistles. text. Religious books, Manuscripts. 1375 - 1400. Manuscripts and Archives Division

Sticherarion Ornamented initial.. 1690 - 1725. text. Religious books, Manuscripts. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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