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This is a festive and richly illuminated codex-type manuscript made of Persian and Italian watermarked paper. Written (or copied) in the Georgia Nuskhuri script by Zosime from Vale at Samtskhe Atabegs court scriptorium around 1514 CE, this...

An illustration of medieval falconry, a popular sport across Europe in the Middle Ages. (Codex Manesse, 14th century CE, Zurich, Switzerland)

A Latin version of Gynaecology by Soranus of Ephesus, showing positions of the embryo in the uterus. Codex 3714, fol. 28r. Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels.

Aztec temple of Huitzilopochtli, book illustration by unknown artist, included in the Codex Tovar by Juan de Tovar, p. 244, 1582. John Carter Brown Library, Providence.

A scene from the 16th-century Codex Telleriano-Remensis showing the death of Pedro de Alvarado (c. 1485-1541), the Spanish conquistador who became the first governor of Guatemala in 1527. Alvarado was killed in Mexico when his horse fell...

Mixcoatl, the Mesoamerican god of hunting and the Milky Way. Here he is depicted in familiar guise with red and white striped face paint, black mask, and a bundle of arrows. Codex Borgia, pre-Columbian. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

Page 66 of the 9th-10th-century manuscript of Codex 169(468), containing works by Isidore, Hucbaldus and Bernoldus as well as the Gospel of Nicodemus, copied at various times in Italy and Einsiedeln. Stiftsbibliothek, Einsiedeln.

Aztec supreme god Huitzilopochtli with hummingbird-inspired look, book illustration by unknown artist, included in the Codex Tovar by Juan de Tovar, p. 240, 1582. John Carter Brown Library, Providence.

Collection of poems (masnavi), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.625, fol. 51b A leaf from an elegantly calligraphed and illuminated copy of the collection of poems, known as Mas̱navī-i maʿnavī, by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d.672 AH / 1273 CE). This codex...

Collection of poems (divan), King Solomon and the hoopoe who brought news from Queen Sheba, Walters Manuscript W.636, fol. 84a An illustrated copy of the collection of poems (Dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī who flourished...