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A manuscript of the second chapter of the ancient biblical book of Amos by a scribe in the 6th century CE copying a c. 750 BCE original. (University of Pennsylvania Library, USA)

A 1310-1320 CE manuscript illustration of the Nativity. Made in East Anglia. (National Library of Wales)

Part of a Taoist manuscript, ink on silk, 2nd century BCE, Han Dynasty, unearthed from Mawangdui tomb 3, Chansha, Hunan Province, China. Hunan Province Museum.

This 13th Century CE Arabic manuscript is the earliest manuscript from the Abbasid era (750-1258 CE). The Abbasids initiated a cascade of translation activities to preserve and further aggrandize western and eastern knowledge. Part of the...

Miniature of King Arthur, holding a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Virgin and Child. 14th-century CE manuscript from England. Peter of Langtoft and others: Drawings with various inscriptions, distichs and poems (ff. 1-9v), verse...

A manuscript of the Beowulf. 11th century CE. (British Library, London)

The Codex Runicus (AM 28 8vo), a manuscript from c. 1300 CE, contains one of the oldest texts of the Scanian Law (Skånske lov), here written exclusively in the Medieval Futhork runic script. It resides at the University of Copenhagen in...

This is a 14th century CE manuscript in Armenian on the discoveries made by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. The text of this document was first translated from Greek into Armenia in the 6th century CE. (Mesrop Mashtots Institute...

Illustrated Buddhist manuscript cover narrating tales of Jataka. It was created in the late 11th century CE in Bihar, India. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.)

This is a parchment fragment from an Armenian manuscript created in the 10th century CE. (Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan, Armenia)