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French
Grandes Chroniques de France de Charles V
c. 1375-1380, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

Byzantine
Greek New Testament
c. 925-975, British Library, London

 

Islamic
Green Magpie (Folio from Manafi' al Hayawan)
c. 1300, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Anglo-Saxon
Grimbald Gospels
c. 1020, British Library, London

 

German
The Guntbald Gospels
1011, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

German
The Guntbald Sacramentary
1014-1022, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

Anglo-Saxon
Harley Psalter
c. 1010, British Library, London

     

German
The Hezilo Gospels
c. 975-1050, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

Frankish
Hincmar Gospels
c. 845-882, Bibliothèque Municipale, Reims

 

Italian
Historia Naturalis (The Jensen Pliny)
1476, private collection

 

German
Hitda Codex
c. 1000-1020, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Darmstadt

   

English
Hours of Elizabeth the Queen
c. 1420-1430, British Library, London

 

Flemish
Hours of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy
1406-1415, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

French
Hours of Marguerite de Foix, Duchess of Brittany
c. 1470-1480, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

   

French
Hours of Peter II, Duke of Brittany
1455-1457, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

Islamic
Illuminated Sarlauh to a Khamseh of Nizami
1494-1495, British Library, London

 

French
Ingeborg Psalter
c. 1195, Musée Condé, Chantilly

     

Italian
Initial G with the Glorification of Saint Dominic, from the Lehman Hymnal
c. 1430-1440, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Isfandiyar Reproaches his Father Gushtasp, Demotte Shahnameh
1336, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence

 

Islamic
Iskandar received by Nushabeh, from a Sharafnameh of Nizami
c. 1531-1532, British Library, London

 

Islamic
Iskandarnama
c. 1450, Bibliotecca Nazionale Marciana, Venice

 

Islamic
Jahangir weighs Khurram [later Shah Jahan] against gold on his birthday of 1607, from album painting
c. 1628 or 1629, British Museum, London

 

English
Jerome's Life of Saint Paul and Felix' Life of Saint Guthlac
c. 1025-1050, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

 

English
Josephus's Jewish Antiquities
c. 1130, University Library, Cambridge

 

Islamic
Khamsa of Nizami
c. 1400-1500, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Khamsa of Nizami
1537, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

   

Islamic
The Khamsa of Nizami
c. 1624-1625, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

 

Islamic
Khusrau visits the Qaysar of Rum, from Khusrau u Shirin of Shaykhi (Seyhi)
c. 1500, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
The Khwan-i Khalil (Table of the Friend of God) by Zuhuri
1669-1670, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Kitab-i Bahriye of Piri Reis
1688-1689, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Flemish
La Bouquechardiere of Jean de Courcy
c. 1460-1470, British Museum, London

 

English
Lambeth Bible
c. 1145-1155, Lambeth Palace Library, London

 

Spanish
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript
c. 1180, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Italian
Leaf from a Gradual: Initial A with the Last Judgment
c. 1270-1280, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

German
Leaf from a Model Book, with Christ and Zacchaeus, and Saint Theodore and Saint George
c. 1200-1300, Augustinermuseum, Freiburg

 

Italian
Leaf from a Psalter: Initial D with King David
c. 1485-1490, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
Leather Binding of a Divan
1452

 

Byzantine
Lectionary
c. 900, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg

 

Italian
Lehman Hymnal (Dominican Hymnal)
c. 1430-1440, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Frankish
Leiden Aratea
c. 825-850, University Library, Leyden

   

German
Leiden Maccabees
c. 925, University Library, Leyden

 

Hiberno-Saxon
Leningrad Gospels
c. 775-800, Public Library, Leningrad

 

French
Les Marchandes de Modes
1784, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

   

German
Liber Matutinalis
1206-1225, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn

 

French
Life and Miracles of Saint Denis
1317, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

English
Life and Miracles of Saint Edmund
c. 1130, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

   

Anglo-Saxon
Life of Saint Cuthbert
934-939, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge

 

English
Life of Saint Edward the Confessor
c. 1255, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge

     

Bohemian
Life of the Blessed Hedwig
1353, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Frankish
Lindau Gospels
c. 870-880, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

   

Hiberno-Saxon
Lindisfarne Gospels
before 698, British Library, London

                                                 

Islamic
Lion advised by his Mother, Kalilah wa Dimnah
1354, Bodleian Library, Oxford

 

Islamic
Lion Hunt
c. 1600-1700, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

German
Liuthar Gospels
c. 996, Aachen Cathedral

 

Frankish
Lothar Gospels
849-851, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Irish
Mac Durnan Gospels
c. 888-927, Lambeth Palace Library, London

 

Islamic
Mahmud bin Sebuktegin of Ghazni Crosses the Ganges, Jami al-Tawarikh
1306-1307, University Library, Edinbugh

 

German
Mainz Psalter
1457, private collection

   

Islamic
Manafi al-Hayawan of Ibn Bakhtishu
c. 1300-1350, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Manizheh watches Rustam rescue her lover Bizhan, Shahnameh made for Muhammad Juki
before 1444, Royal Asiatic Society, London

 

German
Mansuscript Leaf with Enthroned Virgin and Child
c. 1440, Städel Museum, Frankfurt

 

Bohemian
Manuscript Leaf with the Crucifixion and Man of Sorrows
c. 1425-1450, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

 

Islamic
Manuscript Leaf: King Kaykavus Attempts to Fly
c. 1630, private collection

 

Islamic
Manuscript Page in Naskhi Script
1199, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Bohemian
Martinice Bible
1430-1434, Academy of Sciences, Prague

 

Islamic
Miscellany Manuscript for Iskandar Sultan
1411, British Library, London

   

Bohemian
Missal from Brno
c. 1400, Archiv města Brna, Brno

 

Austrian
Missal from Lambach
1150-1175, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Italian
Missal from Messina
c. 1182-1195, Bibiloteca National, Madrid

 

French
Missal Leaf with the Crucifixion
c. 1270-1290, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

English
Missal of Henry of Chichester
after 1246, John Rylands Library, Manchester

   

Bohemian
Missal of Jan of Streda
after 1364, Cathedral of Saint Vitus, Prague

 

Bohemian
Missal of Zbynek of Hazmburk
1409, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

 

Spanish
Moralia in Job
c. 945, Bibiloteca National, Madrid

   

French
Moralia in Job
c. 1111, Bibliothèque Municipale, Dijon

 

English
Moralised Ovid
c. 1483, Magdalene College, Cambridge

 

French
Morgan Picture Bible
c. 1250, Morgan Library, New York

     

English
Mostyn Gospels
c. 1130, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

 

Frankish
Moutier-Grandval Bible
c. 840, British Library, London

     

English
New Testament with Narrative Picture Cycle
c. 1150, Pembroke College, Cambridge

 

French
Odbert Gospels
c. 1000-1050, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

 

German
Odbert Psalter
999, Bibliothèque Municipale, Boulougne

 

English
The Old Proctor's Book
c. 1390, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge

 

English
Oscott Psalter
c. 1265-1270, British Library, London

 

German
Ottobeuren Collectar
c. 1150-1180, British Library, London

 

Islamic
Papercut, from an Album of Murad III
c. 1550-1575, Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

 

Egyptian
Papyrus of Ani
c. 1295-1186 BCE, British Museum, London

         

Flemish
Parc Bible
completed in 1148, British Library, London

   

French
Paris Apocallypse
c. 1245-1255, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

French
Paris Hours of René of Anjou
c. 1410-1420, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

Byzantine
Paris Psalter
c. 975, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

   

Bohemian
Passional of Jan Kalivoda
1525, Zemský Archiv, Opava

 

Frankish
Pauline Epistles from Saint Gall
c. 850-900, Stiftsbibliothek, Saint Gall

 

Anglo-Saxon
Pembroke Gospels
c. 1000-1050, Pembroke College, Cambridge

 

German
Pericopes Book of Henry II
c. 1002-1012, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

         

Austrian
Philosophy and the Seven Liberal Arts
1150-1160, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

 

Islamic
Pilgrim Caravan, from the Maqamat of Al-Hariri
1237, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

French
Poetical Works of Guillaume de Machaut
c. 1355-1360, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Islamic
Poppy (Folio from Khawass Al-Ashjar)
c. 1250-1300, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Islamic
Portrait of a Painter
c. 1600-1625, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
The Portrait of Khusrau Shown to Shirin
c. 1494, British Library, London

 

German
Prayer Book with Twelve Woodcuts of the Passion
c. 1450, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

 

Islamic
The Prayer of 'Ukkasha
c. 1525-1550, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Anglo-Saxon
Prayerbook of Aelfwine
c. 1023-1035, British Library, London

 

French
Primer of Claude de France
c. 1505-1510, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

   

Islamic
Prince Khurram weighed in gold and silver
c.1615, British Museum, London

 

Bohemian
Prüfening Miscellany
c. 1158-1165, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

   

Bohemian
Psalter from Breslau
c. 1260, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

 

German
Psalter from Thuringia
c. 1200-1250, British Library, London

 

French
Psalter of Blanche of Castile
c. 1230, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris

 

English
Psalter of Henry of Blois
c. 1150, British Library, London

 

French
Psalter of Saint Louis
1260-1270, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

           

Byzantine
Psalter with Christ Praying, the Crucifixion, and an Iconoclast
c. 843, State Historical Museum, Moscow

   

Frankish
Psalterium Aureum of Saint Gall
c. 800-825

 

English
Queen Mary Psalter
c. 1310-1320, British Library, London

 

Islamic
Qur'an
1186, private collection

   

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1282-1283, private collection

   

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1370-1400, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1330-1340, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
1329, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1330-1340, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
1382-1383, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1453-1461, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
1489, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1450-1500, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1500-1550, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1560-1575, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
1552, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
1517, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
1577, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1700, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
1706-1707, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
1787-1788, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
1685-1686, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1600-1700, private collection

 

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1200-1250, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Qur'an
c. 1350, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

Islamic
Qur'an Manuscript (One of 20 Volumes)
c. 1200-1300, Rabat Bibliothèque Ben Youssouf, Marrakesh

 

Islamic
Qur'an of Ibn al-Bawwab
c. 1000-1001, Chester Beatty Library and Oriental Art Gallery, Dublin

     

Islamic
Qur'an of Sha'ban
c. 1368, National Library, Cairo

     

Islamic
Qur'an of Uljaytu
1313, National Library, Cairo

 

Islamic
Qur'an Volume
c. 1175-1225, private collection

 

Islamic
Rider in the Rain
c. 1620, British Museum, London

 

Spanish
Ripoll Bible
c. 1000-1100, Vatican Library, Rome

 

English
The Rochester Bestiary
c. 1225-1250, British Library, London

               

Roman
Roman Virgil
c. 500, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome

         

Byzantine
Rossano Gospels
c. 500-550, Cathedral of Rossano

           

French
Ruskin Hours
c. 1300, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Spanish
Rylands Beatus
c. 1175, John Rylands Library, Manchester

   

German
Sacramentary from Corvey
c. 980-990, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

 

French
Sacramentary from Mont Saint-Michel
c. 1050-65, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

 

French
Sacramentary from Saint-Amand
c. 1150, Bibliothèque Municipale, Valenciennes

 

German
Sacramentary of Bishop Abraham of Friesing
c. 980-990, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

 

Frankish
Sacramentary of Marmoutier
c. 844-845, Bibliothèque Municipale, Autun

 

English
Saint Albans Psalter
c. 1120-1135, Saint Godehard Church, Hildesheim

 

Anglo-Saxon
Saint Dunstan's Classbook
c. 950, Bodleian Library, Oxford

 

German
Salzburg Pericopes
c. 1020, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

 

English
Sawley Map
c. 1190, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

 

Islamic
Scribe, Zenannameh (Qualities of Women) of Fazil Husayn Andaruni
c. 1750-1800, British Museum, London

 

French
Second Bible of Saint-Martial, Limoges
c. 1050-1150, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

English
Shaftesbury Psalter
c. 1130-1140, British Library, London

 

Islamic
Shahnama of Firdausi
c. 1300-1400, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Shahnameh, Sleeping Rustam
c.1514, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Shapur makes his report to Khusrau, from a Khamseh of Nizami
1543, British Museum, London

 

Egyptian
Sheet from a Book of the Dead (Re in the Netherworld)
c. 1075-945 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Egyptian
Sheet from an Amduat: What is in the Netherworld
c. 1075-945 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Anglo-Saxon
Sherborne Pontifical
c. 970-985, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Islamic
Silsilename of Yusuf ibn Abd al-Hadi
c. 1600, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Byzantine
Sinope Gospels
c. 500-600, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

       

English
Six Comedies by Terence
c. 1150, Bodleian Library, Oxford

 

Islamic
Siyar-i Nabi of Darir
1595, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
Slaying of an Elephant-headed Creature
c. 1575-1600, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

French
Souvigny Bible
c. 1150-1200, Bibliothèque Municipale, Moulins

 

German
Speculum Virginum (Jungfrauenspiegel)
c. 1200, Staatsbibliothek, Munich

 

German
Speier Golden Gospels
1045-1046, Escorial Library, Madrid

 

Flemish
Stavelot Bible
c. 1093-1097, British Library, London

 

Anglo-Saxon
Stockholm Codex Aureus
c. 750, Kunigliga Bibliotheket, Stockholm

   

Frankish
Stuttgart Psalter
c. 820-830, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart

 

Frankish
Stuttgart Psalter
c. 750, Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart

     

Islamic
Subhat al-Abrar of Jami
1525-1550, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Islamic
A Sufi discourses in a garden, from a Divan of Hafiz
c. 1610, British Library, London

 

Islamic
Sultan Ibrahim 'Adil Shah holding castanets
c. 1615, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Sulwan al-Muta of Ibn Zafar
c. 1325-1350, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

English
The Theyer Bestiary
c. 1200-1210, British Library, London

         

English
Thorney Computus
c. 1102-1110, Saint John's College, Oxford

 

Anglo-Saxon
Tiberius Psalter
c. 1050, British Library, London

 

Bohemian
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
c. 1400-1415, British Library, London

                 

Islamic
The Treatise on the Spectacles of the Chameleon
1669-1670, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

 

German
Tree of Consanguinity
c. 1200-1225, Menil Collection, Houston

 

Anglo-Saxon
Trinity Gospels
c. 1000-1100, Trinity College, Cambridge

 

German
Troper from Reichenau
1001, Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg

 

Islamic
Tugra of Selim II
c. 1555-1560, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

German
Uppsala Gospels
1050

 

German
Uta Codex
c. 1025, British Library, London

                       

Frankish
Utrecht Psalter
2nd quarter of 9th c, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Utrecht

               

Islamic
Varqah and Gulshah
c. 1225

 

Roman
Vatican Virgil
c. 400, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome

           

Frankish
Vienna Coronation Gospels
c. 800, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

       

Byzantine
Vienna Genesis
c. 500-533, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

                   

English
View of Venice, from the Travels of Marco Polo
c. 1400, Bodleian Library, Oxford

   

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