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‡ Stamp seal with quadrupeds, on steatite or chlorite block [Near East, 5th or 4th millennium BC]
‡ Stamp seal with two horned quadrupeds, possibly antelope, each held by a large hand, carved in simple lines, floral zigzag motifs on reverse, on...
‡ Stamp seal with Ibex, carved on black steatite or chlorite [Near East, fourth millennium BC.]
‡ Stamp seal, with single large male Ibex with long curving horns, walking left, small half-moon marks denoting ground, and ridge worn into revers...
‡ The Kushim Clay Tablet, fine pictographic tablet [Sumer, Uruk III period (31st century BC.)]
‡ The Kushim Clay Tablet, a large and remarkably fine pictographic tablet recording beer production at the brewery at the Inanna Temple in Uruk, w...
Book of the Dead, written for the deceased Anchhap, son of Djedher and Shepsepedet, part of chapter 17, in Middle Egyptian in Heiratic script, dec...
‡ Homer, Iliad XI:1-5 (with Zeus sending Strife to the Achaean fleet, bearing a war-banner in her hands, at the break of dawn), in Greek, epic ver...
‡ Quotations from Isocrates and Menander, in Attic Greek, wooden tablet [Egypt, 4th or 5th century]
‡ Short quotations from Isocrates, Ad Demonicum, 9, and Menander, Sententia, in Attic Greek, in Greek cursive and capitals, manuscript on large po...
‡ Votive text, in Latin, punched with dots into thin gold plate [probably England, 3rd century AD.]
‡ Votive text appealing to Victoria Augusta, perhaps in the name of a Roman auxiliary stationed in England and named Aufilius or Aufidius, in Lati...
Record of testamentary charities, in Latin, manuscript on bronze [Mediterranean, dated 209 AD.)]
Record of testamentary charities by different testators, made to freeborn legitimate and illegitimate boys and girls in set proportions by an esta...
Ɵ Two leaves with a homily discussing adultery and citing a patristic text, in Greek, decorated manuscript on parchment[Greece (perhaps Constanti...
Coptic Psalter, manuscript on parchment [Egypt (probably White Monastery), 1st half of 5th century]
‡ Psalter, in Sahidic dialect of Coptic, in Coptic Uncials, manuscript on parchment[Upper Egypt (probably the White Monastery, Sohag), first half ...
Breviary, in Syriac, decorated manuscript on parchment [Near East (probably Syria), twelfth century]
Ɵ Breviary, in Syriac, decorated manuscript on parchment[Near East (probably Syria), twelfth century] Single leaf, with double column of 30 lines...
‡ Hebrew Bible, Amos 5:7-7:11, manuscript on parchment [Oriental (Near East), tenth or eleventh century] Single large square leaf, with three colu...
Hebrew Bible, with Kings Chronicles and Isaiah, manuscript on parchment [Germany, 12th/13th century]
Cuttings from a Hebrew Bible, with parts of Kings, Chronicles, and Isaiah, all with the commentary of Rashi and parts of the Haftaroth, manuscrip...
Ɵ Substantial fragment from two closely related codices of the Hebrew Bible, with the short weekly readings from 2 Kings and the Major and Minor P...
Yačaxapatoum čark, an extremely early sermon collection, in Armenian, manuscript on parchment[Greater Armenia, twelfth century] Six leaves, with ...
Ɵ Canon of Odes 3-7, in Middle Georgian, manuscript on parchment [Georgia, 13th or 14th century]
Ɵ Canon of Odes 3-7, celebrating the appearance of the Cross in the sky over Mount Golgotha in the reign of Emperor Constantius, son of Constantin...
Bede, Homilies, in Latin, cuttings from a manuscript in a fine Anglo-Saxon minuscule on parchment[most probably north-eastern France (perhaps Arra...
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Southern Italy, 11th century]
Ɵ Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, in Latin, large cutting from a manuscript on parchment, surviving in situ on the binding of a printed copy of...
Ɵ Augustine, Tractatus in Johannem, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Southern Italy, 11th century]
Ɵ Five small cuttings from Augustine, Tractatus in Johannem, 10:9-12, in Beneventan minuscule, in Latin, from a liturgical manuscript on parchment...
Collectarium, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [southern central Italy (perhaps Sulmona), c. 1200]
Ɵ Three small cuttings from a single leaf from a portable Collectarium with the Offices for St. Bartholomew and the Decollation of St. John the Ba...
Ɵ Passional, with an animal initial, manuscript in Latin, on parchment [Southern Italy, c. 1100]
Ɵ Leaf from a vast Passional, with a large and finely decorated animal initial, manuscript in Latin, written in Beneventan minuscule on parchment[...
Ɵ Gregory the Great, Homily, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Southern Italy, 13th century]
Ɵ Gregory the Great, Homily on Luke 13:6, in Latin, in Beneventan minuscule, decorated manuscript on parchment[Southern Italy (probably Montecassi...
Ɵ Leaf from a Missal, for the Sanctoral, with the Mass for the Feast of the Apparition of St. Michael (8 May) and for the Feasts of SS. Gordian an...
Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of St. Anthony the Great, in the Latin translation of Evagrius of Antioch, large cutting from a manuscript leaf on ...
Bede’s commentary on Luke, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [most probably Germany, 9th century]
Bede's commentary on Luke 8:4-12, with an unidentified commentary on 2 Corinthians 11:32-12:9, in Latin, manuscript on parchment[most probably Ger...
Ɵ Bifolium from a Bible, most probably a grand pandect, with Proverbs 30:23-31:31 and Ecclesiastes 1:1-7:20, in Latin, in early Carolingian minusc...
Ɵ Alcuin, Conflictus veris et hiemis, and other texts, manuscript on parchment [France, c.873]
Ɵ Conflictus veris et hiemis, a verse in hexameters on the debate between Spring and Winter, attributed to Alcuin of York, with the translations a...
Ɵ Passio sanctorum Petri et Pauli, manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably Bobbio), 10th century]
Ɵ Pseudo-Marcellus, Passio sanctorum Petri et Pauli, an apocryphal text based on the Acts of St. Peter, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchmen...
Ɵ Lectionary leaf, with readings from Luke 10:17-24 and John 15:12-16, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[probably Italy, tenth century] ...
Ɵ Early Medieval Penitential, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France/Low Countries, 11th century]
Ɵ Fragments of an otherwise unrecorded Early Medieval Penitential collection, evidently including an early draft of Burchard of Worms' Corrector s...
Ɵ Missal, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Low Countries or Germany, early to mid-11th century]
Ɵ Leaf from a Missal, from the Temporal, with Masses for the 3rd Sunday in Lent and the Monday following, in Latin, manuscript on parchment[Low Co...
Ɵ Lectionary in Latin, manuscript on parchment [southern Germany, 11th century (probably 1st half)]
Ɵ Leaf from a Lectionary containing Gospel and Epistle readings for the fifth Sunday after the Octave of Easter, Rogation Monday, and the Vigil of...
Augustine, Epistulae, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France (perhaps Loire), 11th century]
Augustine, Epistulae, in Latin, single gathering from a fine Romanesque manuscript on parchment[France (northern France, perhaps Loire valley), el...
Ɵ Augustine, Sermones, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Low Countries, 2nd half of 11th century]
Ɵ Leaf from a Augustine, Sermones, 233:2-3 and 242:1, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[Low Countries, second half of eleventh century] ...
Ɵ Paul the Deacon, Homiliary, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germany, early 11th century]
Ɵ Leaf from a copy of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary, with extracts from Leo the Great, tractate 82:4-5, and Pseudo-Maximus, sermon 68, in Latin, dec...
Ɵ Vita Sancti Stephani, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Germany (perhaps Rhineland), c. 1100]
Ɵ Bifolium from a Vita Sancti Stephani, including an abridgement of Evodius, Miracula Facta Uzali, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[Ger...
Ɵ Isidore of Seville, Etymologiarum, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France, 12th century]
Ɵ Two leaves with Isidore of Seville, Etymologiarum sive originum, book 20, with readings on wine, and Pubilius Syrus, Sententiae, in Latin, decor...
Ɵ Sulpicius Severus, Life of St. Martin, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [St Albans, 12th century]
Ɵ Small cutting from Sulpicius Severus, Life of St. Martin of Tours, in Latin, manuscript on parchment[England (St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire), m...
Ɵ Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [England, 12th century]
Ɵ Leaf from Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, for Psalm 41:6-8, in Latin, from large manuscript on parchment[England, mid-twelfth century] Compl...
Ɵ Vergil, Georgics, in Latin, leaves in situ in an Oxford binding by D. Pinart [England, c. 1200]
Ɵ Vergil, Georgics III:259-458 and IV:393-564, in Latin didactic hexameter verse, leaves from a decorated manuscript on parchment in situ in an Ox...
Matthaeus Platearius, De Medicinis, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [England or France, 12th centu
Ɵ Matthaeus Platearius, De Medicinis Simplicibus, a medieval herbal, in Latin, manuscript on parchment[England or France, second half of the twelf...
Atlantic Bible leaf with white vine initial, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Italy, 12th century]
Ɵ Leaf from an Atlantic Bible with a large white vine initial, text from Job 1:1-4; 1:7-3:2 with prologue of St. Jerome, in Latin, decorated manus...
Ɵ Sermons on the Annunciation of the Virgin, manuscript in Latin on parchment [Italy, 12th century]
Ɵ Sermons on the Annunciation of the Virgin attributed to Augustine, with a large decorated initial, manuscript in Latin on parchment[Italy, mid-t...
Ɵ Vast white vine initial on a leaf from an Atlantic Bible, with 2 Samuel 1:1-12 and capitula, in Latin, manuscript on parchment[Italy (probably T...
1001 Nights, in Arabic, on reused Christian manuscripts [Europe & Holy Land, 12th and 13th century]
Kitab Alif Laila, the Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in Arabic, short quotations added to twelve cuttings recovered from Christian manuscrip...
Leaf from a collection of Homilies on St. Peter and the Ascension by SS. Augustine and Jerome, in Latin, leaf from a monumentally large lectern ma...
Ɵ Leaf from a Glossed Bible, with Hosea 8:12-9:6, in Latin, from a decorated manuscript on parchment[Northern France (doubtless Paris), second hal...
Leaf from the Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Bible, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France, 13th century]
Ɵ Josias censing the altar in Jerusalem for the Passover,in a historiated initial on a leaf from the Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Bible, with Nehemiah a...
Ɵ Leaf from a commentary on Matthew 2:11-18, in Latin, from a large decorated manuscript on parchment[England, c. 1200] Single leaf, with double c...
Aristotle, Priora Analytica, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France/England, thirteenth century]
Ɵ Aristotle, Priora Analytica, 1:32, 2:5, in Latin translation of Boethius, manuscript on parchment[France or England, thirteenth century] Two lea...
Ɵ Lectern Bible, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [southern Flanders (perhaps Tournai), c. 1275]
Ɵ Two leaves from a monumental Lectern Bible, with Leviticus 25:40-26:26 and Deuteronomy 12:31-14:19, in Latin, from a vast decorated manuscript o...
Commentaries on Luke, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [France/Low Countries, 13th or 14th century]
Ɵ Commentaries on Luke 24:15-24 by various writers including Bede, Theophilius, Gregory the Great, Augustine and John Chrysostom, with a rhyming s...
Ɵ Leaf from a collection of Bulls of Pope Boniface VIII, in Latin, from a large manuscript on parchment[northern France (probably Paris), c. 1300]...
Ɵ Leaf from a copy of the Decretals, in Latin, from a large manuscript on parchment[Italy, fourteenth century] Single vast leaf, with main text in...
Ɵ Guillelmus Durandus, Repertorium juris, manuscript on parchment [Italy & England, 14th century]
Ɵ Opening leaf of Guillelmus Durandus, Repertorium juris canonici (Breviarium aureum), a collection of citations from canonists on controversial q...
Ɵ Hercules Oetaeus (a play on the death of Hercules on Mount Oeta), 688-710, 714-735, 953-974, 979-1000, in Latin, large cutting from a decorated ...
Ɵ Vitae sanctorum, including parts of the lives of SS. George, Agapius, Secundinus, Marianus, Iacobus and their associates in Numidia, in Latin, i...
Ɵ Confraternity of the Archangel Michael, in Spanish, manuscript on parchment [Valencia, c.1400]
Ɵ Statutes of the Confraternity of the Archangel Michael, Valencia, in Spanish, leaf from a decorated calligraphic manuscript on parchment[Spain (...
Ɵ Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[Germany, fifteenth century] Bifolium, each leaf with double column of 32 lines in a large fo...
Ɵ Bible manuscript on parchment [Austria or southern Germany, second half of fifteenth century]
Ɵ Prologue to Job, in Latin, leaf from an illuminated Bible manuscript on parchment[Austria or southern Germany, second half of fifteenth century]...