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Probably copied in Egypt, this 10th-century Qur’an is written in Eastern kufic script on vellum. The manuscript The desi...
This elegant, detailed Qur’an is one of the earliest dated examples of naskhi script. What is special this script? This...
An early Book of Hours from England. Popular in the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, Books of Hours were pra...
This 14th-century Qur’an from Egypt. The manuscript This Qur’an is written in muhaqqaq script, with ornamental chapter ...
This is a 700-year-old traveller’s guidebook: a practical manual for pilgrims walking St James’s Way to Santiago de Comp...
This is a manuscript copy of the ‘Wycliffite Bible’ – the first complete copy of the Bible in the English language. Why...
A manuscript containing the Later Version of the Middle English translation of the Bible produced by followers of the re...
This 17th-century Chinese Qur’an shows how Islamic styles of calligraphy and illumination were combined with local style...
The Haram at Mecca with the Kaʻbah in the centre, from a manuscript of Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn, a poetical description of the...
What is the work about? This important 17th-century encyclopaedia, the Dabistān-i Maz̲āhib (‘School of Religions’) can b...
A 17th-century Ashkenaz Torah Scroll. What is the Torah Scroll? The Torah Scroll is the holiest object in Judaism. It i...
This very long scroll was copied in the mid-10th century for a Buddhist patron, who requested long life for himself and...
This concertina manuscript contains a Chinese commentary on the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, with the text of the sūtra also writt...
This is the first published collection of Shaker hymns, written and collated to convey the Shaker religious philosophy t...
A 17th-century copy of the Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn, a poetical description of the holy shrines of Mecca and Medina and the rit...
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