Public-domain manuscripts
200 public-domain plates · 9th century to 19th century · 162 attributed
200 public-domain manuscripts in the archive, every one released under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) or equivalent public-domain dedication spanning the 9th century to 19th century. Free to view, download and reuse for any purpose. Of these, 162 carry a named artist or maker.
Artists & makers in this set
Subjects covered
Museum sources
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Lines addressed to two particular friends on their Marriage
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Figure of Justice and Shield with Lions Rampant
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Viper in a Rocky Garden from Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu'
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Manuscript Cover from the Glorification of the Great Goddess (Devimahatmya)
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Manuscript Cover with Buddha, Two Bodhisattvas and Two Protective Deities (Lokapalas)
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Manuscript Cover from the Glorification of the Great Goddess (Devimahatmya)
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Manuscript Cover from the Five Protectors (Pancharaksha)
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One of a Pair of Manuscript Covers of the Five Transcendent Buddhas
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One of a Pair of Magical Charms (Dharani) Manuscript Covers
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One of a Pair of Magical Charms (Dharani) Manuscript Covers
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Manuscript Cover from the Five Protectors (Pancharaksha)
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Manuscript Cover with Six Seated Buddhas with Various Hand Gestures (Mudras)
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Bound Manuscript: The Miracles of Mary (Te'amire Maryam)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Christ Being Nailed to the Cross
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Fragment of an Antiphonary with Historiated Initial (A): Christ in Majesty
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Fragment of a Historiated Initial from a Choir Book: Christ in Majesty
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Historiated Initial (D) Excised from a Choir Book: Two Martyr Saints
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Historiated Initial (P) Excised from a Gradual: The Nativity
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One of a Pair of Manuscript Covers from the Five Protectors (Pancharaksha)
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Single Miniature: The Nativity
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Miniature Excised from a Compendium in historiae genealogia Christi by Peter Poitiers: The Sacrifice of Isaac
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Initial A from a Choral Book with King David
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Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Coronation of the Virgin (recto); Text (verso)
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Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis
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Text page from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides
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Persian Quatrains (Rubayi) and Calligraphic Exercises (recto); Persian Verse (khamriyya) (verso)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Christ in Judgment
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Three physicians preparing medicine, from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides
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Leaf from a Gradual: Decorated Initial (verso)
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Leaf from a Gradual: Decorated Initial (verso)
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Leaves from a Volume of Johannes Andrea's "Lectura super arboris consanguinitatis et affinitatis: Table of Affinity and Table of Consanguinity"
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Antiphonary: Initial, angel
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: King David
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Antiphonary: Initial A, Resurrection
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Bifolium from an Antiphonary: Initial M with Saint Dominic Preaching and Music
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Persian Quatrains (Rubayi) and Calligraphic Exercises (recto)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Text (verso)
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Full Page Miniature: The Agony in the Garden
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Leaves from a Book of Hours
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Initial "B" (eatus Vir) from a Choir Psalter
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Bifolium from an Antiphonary: Music
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Historiated Initial (E) Excised from the Colonna Missal: The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto)
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Leaf with Initial from a Latin Bible: Initial M: St. Paul with a Sword and a Book
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Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial A and Initial A: Judith Beheading Holofernes
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Cutting from a Missal: Initial O with Christ Performing an Exorcism
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Bifolium from an Antiphonary: Initial M with Saint Dominic Preaching
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Single Leaf with Scenes from the Last Supper
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Leaf from a Volume of Johannes Andrea's "Lectura super arboris consanguinitatis et affinitatis: Table of Affinity"
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: John on Patmos (1 of 2 Excised Leaves)
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Folio from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms
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Medallion from the Border of a Latin Bible: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
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Youth Seated by a Willow; Single Page Illustration
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Virgin and Child Enthroned
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Presentation in the Temple
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Visitation
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Coronation of the Virgin
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds
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Medallion from the Border of a Latin Bible: The Sixth Day of Creation
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Leaf from a Volume of Johannes Andrea's "Lectura super arboris consanguinitatis et affinitatis: Table of Consanguinity
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Youth Holding a Pomegranate; Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript
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Picnic in the Mountains; Single Page Illustration
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Leaf Excised from a Book of Hours: The Nativity
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Saint James the Greater
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Leaf Excised from a Book of Hours: Angel with a Banderole within a Flourished Border (Prayer to the Holy Trinity)
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Leaf from a Psalter: Historiated Initial D with The Trinity
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Initial I with Elimelech and Naomi: Leaf from a Latin Bible
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Fragment of an Antiphonary with Historiated Initial (S): The Stoning of St. Stephen
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Decorated Initial D[eus] with Foliated Border (Opening of Terce: Hours of the Holy Spirit)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: King David in Prayer (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)
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Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial P with St. Paul Holding a Sword (St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians)
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Leaf Excised from a Book of Hours: Decorated Initial H
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Frontispiece Miniature from the Manuscript of a Poem by Guillaume Crétin: Debate Between Two Women
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Crucifixion
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Leaf from a Choir Psalter: Initial B with King David in Prayer
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Initial R from a Choral Book with King David(?)
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Leaf Excised from a Breviary of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York: The Martyrdom of Saint Denis
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Miniature from a Speculum Historiale: Claudius Designates Nero as His Successor
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Demon in chains
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Initial C Excised from a Choral Book: St. Anthony with Antonite Friars
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Initial D[omine] from a Choral Book: King Solomon
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Illuminated folio (verso) from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291)
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Gradual
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The Trinity: Leaf from a Gradual with Initial B
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Text (verso)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead: Two Devils (verso)
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Initial T from a Choral Book with Isaac and Esau
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Fragment from a Lectern Bible: Initial E[t fecit Josias] with Josiah Aspersing the Altar
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Illuminated Folio from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead with Psalm 5 (verso)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead Opening Prayers (recto)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead Opening Prayers (recto); Psalm 5 (verso)
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Single Leaf from an Antiphonary: Initial H[odie nobis] with The Nativity
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Leaf from an Antiphonary: Historiated Initial P with the Prophet Samuel; Arms of the Visconti Family and the Olivetan Order
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Initial S from a Gradual: Saint Augustine
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead: Angel Chasing a Devil (recto) and Two Devils (verso)
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Antiphonary
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Pair of Graduals: Initial (M) with St. Andrew (recto) and Mass for the Dead (recto)
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Miniature Excised from the "Potocki Psalter": The Deposition
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Gradual
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Initial S[alve sancta parens] from a Gradual: Madonna and Child
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Christ in Majesty with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist: Single Leaf from a Book of Rules
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Illuminated Folio from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291)
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Page from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)
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Illuminated folio from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291)
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Illuminated Folio (recto) from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291)
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Leaf from a Gradual: Initial P with the Nativity
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Last Judgment
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Leaf from a Gradual: Initial (R) with Mass for the Dead (recto)
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Title Page of St. Gregory's "Moralia": Job Visited by His Three Friends (above) and Gregory the Great and His Deacon Peter (below)
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The Visitation: Leaf from a Book of Hours (5 of 6 Excised Leaves)
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Leaf from a Gradual: Initial (M) with St. Andrew (recto)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto) and Text (verso)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead: Angel Chasing a Devil (recto)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi
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Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial P: St. Paul with a Sword and a Book
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Illuminated folio (recto) from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291)
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The Magi Follow the Star (folio 34 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
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Leaf from a Gradual: Initial (D) with John the Baptist
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation, Nativity and Two Prophets
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Saint Barbara (6 of 6 Excised Leaves)
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Angels bring food to Jesus in the wilderness (folio 55 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
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Aulad Tied to a Plane Tree, from a Shahnama by Firdausi
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)
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Adjoining Leaves from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms and King David in Prayer (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto) and Text (verso)
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Matthew
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Persian Couplets (recto); Sleeping Youth (verso)
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Cutting from a Gradual: Initial I with Departure of Tobias
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Miniature from a Book of Hours: The Pentecost
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Betrayal of Christ
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Initial M[issus est] Excised from an Antiphonary: The Annunciation
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Leaf from a Commission: St. Mark Giving the Keys of Venice to Francesco de Priuli
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Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto); Text (verso)
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Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)
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Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (Frontispiece for the Canon of the Mass)
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The Nativity: Leaf from a Book of Hours (3 of 6 Excised Leaves)
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Annunciation to the Shepherds: Leaf from a Book of Hours (1 of 6 Excised Leaves)
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Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)
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Single Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Presentation in the Temple with Roundels of the Casting of Lots, the Deposition, and Pietà (None, Office of the Virgin)
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Leaves from a Book of Hours: The Visitation and Christ in Judgment
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Leaf from the Wettinger Gradual: Historiated Initial (I) with Scenes from the Life of St. Augustine
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Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation
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Initial D[eus in loco] with a Prophet Excised from a Gradual
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Visitation
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Christ before Pilate: Leaf from a Book of Hours (2 of 6 Excised Leaves)
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The Annunciation (Matins, Office of the Virgin): Leaf from a Book of Hours (1 of 3 Excised Leaves)
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Pair of Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi and Coronation of the Virgin
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Sleeping Youth (verso), Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript
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The Ascension: Leaf from a Book of Hours (4 of 6 Excised Leaves)
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Initial G[audeamus omnes] from a Gradual: The Court of Heaven
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Leaf from an Antiphonary: Coronation of the Virgin
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Single Leaf from a Book of Hours: Pieta
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Illumination Excised from a Choir Book: Two Female Angels
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Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto)
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Single Miniature Excised from Boccaccio's Des Cleres et nobles femmes: Queen Medusa and Her Court
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Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)
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Qur'an
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Black and White Bird Perched on a Shrub
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Historiated Initial (P?) Excised from a Bible
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Historiated Initial (A) Excised from a Bible
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Historiated Initial (I) Excised from a Bible
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Historiated Initial (S) Excised from a Bible: Soldiers and Horses
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Historiated Initial Excised from a Bible: St. Paul Preaching
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Historiated Initial Excised from a Bible
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Historiated Initial Excised from a Bible: St. Paul and a Cleric
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Historiated Initial Excised from a Bible
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Historiated Initial (U) Excised from a Bible
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Single Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion
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Bahram Gur Visits the Princess of India in the Black Pavilion, Illustration and Text, Persian Verses (recto); Bahram Gur Visits the Princess of India, Text Page, Persian Verses (verso)
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Episodes from the Reigns of Khusrau Parviz and Nushirwan from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)
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Miniature Excised from a Book of Hours: The Annunciation
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Historiated Initial (A) Excised from an Antiphonary: Christ in Majesty with Prophets
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Historiated Initial (G) Excised from a Choir Book: St. Gregory the Great Celebrating Mass
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Leaf Excised from a Psalter: The Annunciation
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (verso)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (verso)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (verso)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (verso)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (verso)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (verso)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (verso)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (verso)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (verso)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (verso)
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Leaf from a Buddhist Manuscript (recto)
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