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Creator
- "ʻAbd al Raḥmān Jāmī" (2)
- "ʿAbduʾl Bahá, ‘Abbas Effendi" (1)
- Abd al Raḥīm "ʻAnbarīn Qalam Akbarshāhī [calligrapher]" (1)
- Abraham ben Jacob ben Tabya ben Sa'adah ben Abraham of the Pijma family [scribe] (1)
- Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra (1)
- Abu Bakr al Khallal al Baghdadi (1)
- Abu Bakr [master illuminator], also known as Sandal (1)
- Aimee McPherson (1)
- Albert Simpson (1)
- 'Ali ibn Muhammad al Husayni [calligrapher] (1)
- Alphonsus Complutensis [editor] (1)
- Alphonsus Zamorensis [editor] (1)
- Amritananda [scribe] (1)
- Anne Boleyn (1)
- Antonio de Lebrixa [editor] (1)
- Avraham ben Natan Yarhi (author) (1)
- Azar Kayvān (attributed to) (1)
- Bāb (né ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī) (3)
- Bahá’u’llah, Mirza Husayn ‘Ali Nuri (8)
- Banārasī Dāsa (1)
- Baruch (scribe) (1)
- Basilius [artist] (1)
- Beatus of Liébana (1)
- Binyamin (scribe) (1)
- Cotton Mather (1)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1)
- David Griffiths [translator] (1)
- David Jones [translator] (1)
- Demetrius Ducas [editor] (1)
- Desiderius Erasmus (1)
- Devacandrasūri (1)
- Durgashankar Pathak (1)
- Eliyahu Menaḥem ha Zaḳen (author) (1)
- Eznik Koghbatsʿi, Bishop of Bagrewand (1)
- Farīd al Dīn ʻAttar (1)
- Fernando de Guzman [editor] (1)
- Gerard Horenbout (1)
- Gershom ben Judah [punctuator of the rest of the codex] (1)
- Giovan Pietro Birago (1)
- Gregory (scribe) (1)
- Hayyim [scribe artist] (1)
- Ignacio Martins (1)
- Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (1)
- Increase Mather (1)
- Isaac Tyrnau (1)
- Isaac ben Dorbolo (Durbal) (author) (1)
- Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil (author) (1)
- Isaiah ben Elijah of Trani (1)
- Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al Naysābūrī (1)
- Jacob Rimini (1)
- Jacobus Stunica [editor] (1)
- Jahanara Begum (1)
- Jalāl al Dīn Rūmī (1)
- Japheth ben Ali ha Levi (1)
- Jean Maillart (or Mallard) (1)
- Johann Fust (printer) (1)
- Johann Gutenberg (1)
- John Siferwas [principal artist] (1)
- John Wesley (1)
- John Whas [scribe] (1)
- John Wycliffe (2)
- Jonathan Edwards (1)
- Juan de Vergara [editor] (1)
- Kamāl al Dīn Ḥusayn Gāzurgāhī (1)
- Kanakakīrti [artist] (1)
- Kay Kāʼus ibn Kay Khusraw ibn Dārā (1)
- Kayqubād, Bahman (1)
- King Henry VIII (1)
- Kokkinobaphos Master (illustrator) (1)
- Leṿi ben Yitsḥaḳ ben Karo of Salamanca [scribe] (1)
- Lucas de Heere (1)
- Mahmud ibn ‘Umar al Zamakhshari (1)
- Marcos Jorge (1)
- Martin Luther [author] (1)
- Master of the First Prayer Book of Maximillian I [artist] (1)
- Matisāra (1)
- Matthew Paris (1)
- Mesrop of Khizan [illuminator] (1)
- Miles Coverdale [translator] (1)
- Mirza ‘Ali Akbar Milani Muhibb al Sultan [calligrapher] (1)
- Mishkin Qalam [calligrapher] (1)
- Mordekhai Emendante [scribe] (1)
- Moses ben Maimon, known as Maimonides [author] (3)
- Mosheh ben 'Ezra (author) (1)
- Mubad Shah (1)
- Muhammad Azahari bin Abdullah (1)
- Muhammad Hasan (1)
- Muhammad ibn al Wahid [calligrapher] (1)
- Muhammad ibn Sulayman al Jazuli (2)
- Muḥyī Lārī [Muhyi Al Din Lari] (2)
- Murad [scribe] (1)
- Mustafa Efendi [scribe] (1)
- Mustafà, called Hikmet 'i San [scribe] (1)
- Myles Coverdale (1)
- Nahmanides [wrote the commentary] (1)
- Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi) (author) (4)
- Thomas Cranmer (2)
- Unknown (10)
- Various (2)
- William Tyndale [translator] (2)
Date
- to 99 (1)
- 100 to 199 (2)
- 200 to 299 (1)
- 300 to 399 (1)
- 400 to 499 (4)
- 500 to 599 (3)
- 600 to 699 (1)
- 700 to 799 (5)
- 800 to 899 (11)
- 900 to 999 (15)
- 1000 to 1099 (10)
- 1100 to 1199 (12)
- 1200 to 1299 (17)
- 1300 to 1399 (35)
- 1400 to 1499 (36)
- 1500 to 1599 (44)
- 1600 to 1699 (40)
- 1700 to 1799 (45)
- 1800 to 1899 (61)
- 1900 to 1999 (15)
- Post 2000 (1)
Formats
- Album (1)
- Artwork (1)
- Book (12)
- Booklet (1)
- Chinese woodblock printed book (2)
- Cloth (2)
- Codex (4)
- Concertina (1)
- concertina album (1)
- Drawing (3)
- Folio (1)
- Gouache (1)
- Illuminated manuscript (28)
- Illumination (12)
- Illustration (14)
- Image (14)
- Ketubah (3)
- Letter (1)
- Manuscript (246)
- Manuscript annotation (2)
- Map (2)
- marriage contract (3)
- Object (2)
- Painting (4)
- Paper folding book (9)
- Papyrus (2)
- Parchment Codex (2)
- Pen and Ink (1)
- Photograph (2)
- Prayer book (4)
- Print (2)
- Printed book (26)
- Scroll (18)
- Sound recording (3)
- Textile (1)
- Vellum roll (1)
- View (1)
- Watercolour (12)
- Woodblock printed scroll (1)
- Woodblock printed sheet (3)
- Woodcut (1)
Language
- Ancient Greek (1)
- Anglo Norman (5)
- Arabic (51)
- Aramaic (3)
- Ardhamagadhi Prakrit (2)
- Armenian (4)
- Avestan (3)
- Bengali (1)
- Burmese (5)
- Chinese (12)
- Coptic (2)
- Eastern Slavic (1)
- English (26)
- French (7)
- Gandhari (1)
- Geez (3)
- German (2)
- Greek (14)
- Gujarati (5)
- Hebrew (48)
- Hindi (1)
- Italian (1)
- Japanese (5)
- Khotanese (1)
- Kikongo (1)
- Korean (2)
- Latin (39)
- Malagasy (1)
- Malay (1)
- Manchu (1)
- Maori (1)
- Middle English (2)
- Mongolian (1)
- Oghuz Turkic (1)
- Old English (4)
- Old French (1)
- Old Gujarati (1)
- Old Hindi (1)
- Ottoman Turkish (2)
- Pahlavi (5)
- Pali (8)
- Persian (29)
- Portuguese (1)
- Prakrit (4)
- Samaritan (1)
- Sanskrit (20)
- Sinhalese (1)
- Sogdian (1)
- Syriac (5)
- Tai languages (1)
- Tamil (2)
- Thai (1)
- Tibetan (8)
- Urdu (1)
- Various Panjabi dialects (1)
- Yiddish (1)
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10th-century Qur’an
ManuscriptProbably copied in Egypt, this 10th-century Qur’an is written in Eastern kufic script on vellum. The manuscript The desi...
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11th-century Qur'an from Iraq or Persia
ManuscriptThis elegant, detailed Qur’an is one of the earliest dated examples of naskhi script. What is special this script? This...
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13th-century English Book of Hours
ManuscriptAn early Book of Hours from England. Popular in the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, Books of Hours were pra...
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14th-century Mamluk Qur’an
ManuscriptThis 14th-century Qur’an from Egypt. The manuscript This Qur’an is written in muhaqqaq script, with ornamental chapter ...
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14th-century pilgrim's travel guide
ManuscriptThis is a 700-year-old traveller’s guidebook: a practical manual for pilgrims walking St James’s Way to Santiago de Comp...
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14th-century Wycliffite Bible
ManuscriptThis is a manuscript copy of the ‘Wycliffite Bible’ – the first complete copy of the Bible in the English language. Why...
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15th-century Wycliffite Bible
Manuscript, Illuminated manuscriptA manuscript containing the Later Version of the Middle English translation of the Bible produced by followers of the re...
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17th-century Chinese Qur’an
ManuscriptThis 17th-century Chinese Qur’an shows how Islamic styles of calligraphy and illumination were combined with local style...
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17th-century depiction of the Holy Shrine of Mecca
IlluminationThe Haram at Mecca with the Kaʻbah in the centre, from a manuscript of Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn, a poetical description of the...
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A 17th century textbook on comparative religion
ManuscriptWhat is the work about? This important 17th-century encyclopaedia, the Dabistān-i Maz̲āhib (‘School of Religions’) can b...
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A 17th-century Ashkenaz Torah Scroll
Manuscript, ScrollA 17th-century Ashkenaz Torah Scroll. What is the Torah Scroll? The Torah Scroll is the holiest object in Judaism. It i...
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A Buddhist scroll with illustrated cover
Manuscript, ScrollThis very long scroll was copied in the mid-10th century for a Buddhist patron, who requested long life for himself and...
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A Chinese-Tibetan manuscript of the Lankavatara Su...
Manuscript, ConcertinaThis concertina manuscript contains a Chinese commentary on the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, with the text of the sūtra also writt...
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A collection of Shaker hymns
BookThis is the first published collection of Shaker hymns, written and collated to convey the Shaker religious philosophy t...
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A guide book for pilgrims, including a 17th-centur...
ManuscriptA 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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