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Part of a journal detailing a voyage made by a young man travelling to Argentina in 1863. He left Paisley, Scotland, in May and travelled by sailing ship to Buenos Aires, arriving in July. Here he described porpoises and other wildlife seen at sea.
Old page of a medieval latin script
mysterious hand-written French letter, black on white and on a paper background, romantic mail / postage, handwriting, Paris or calligraphy themed background or texture, portrait format, fictive document, my own handwriting
One of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.\nScratched into the wall of the hallway of house six (b) of insula nine, in region nine of the town\n\nPOEM : O utinam liceat collo complexa tenere\u2028braciola et teneris oscula ferre label(l)is\u2028i nunc, ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede\u2028crede mihi levis est natura virorum\u2028saepe ego cu(m) media vigilare(m) perdita nocte\u2028haec mecum medita(n)s: multos Fortuna quos supstulit alte,\u2028hos modo proiectos subito praecipitesque premit.\u2028sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum\u2028dividit lux et se...\nTranslation : Oh, if only I could hold your little arms wrapped around my neck\u2028and press kisses to your tender little lips.\u2028Go then, little doll, trust your happiness to the winds.\u2028Believe me, the nature of men[c] is fickle.\u2028Often I would lie awake, lost in the middle of the night,\u2028Thinking to myself: many whom Fortune has lifted up high,\u2028those, suddenly hurled away/abandoned and falling headlong, she then oppresses.\u2028So too, after Venus has unexpectedly joined the bodies of lovers,\u2028daylight divides them and...\nPhoto composition
Ostroh, Ukraine, June 3, 2022. The text of the prayer Our Father in ancient Greek and in Old Slavonic in an ancient book
Old love letters World War II
Mezuzah with Jewish prayer Shema Yisrael in hebrew to fulfill Biblical commandment, quill and stack of shabby old jewish books. Low key
Vintage paper with Arabic script writing
Old vintage manuscript writing in cursive
bits and pieces of antique French handwriting / calligraphy, letters, documents and ephemera from the 19th Century, isolated over a white background, cut out retro journaling or collage design elements
A page of an old, stained, exercise book with a handwritten recipe for ‘Savoury Cheese Toasts’.
Kayak expedition journal with a cup of tea on a rustic picnic table- handwriting and drawing in pencil. Travel log from paddling trip across north eastern Poland written by me, photographer, in August 1974.
old 18th letter
A book with incomprehensible symbols in the form of question marks, unreadable text in the book.
I'll know better next time.. you want it now ?, Close up a book page, Literature, Words
Undefined text with french words. Handwritten letter. Handwriting. Calligraphy. Manuscript. Script. Font. Abstract texture background
Famous stanza about the despair and futility of prison life, from The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde. From a pre-1942 edition of The Works of Oscar Wilde (the writer, playwright and wit who lived from 1854 to 1900): The vilest deeds like poison weeds,/ Bloom well in prison-air;/ It is only what is good in Man/ That wastes and withers there:/ Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,/ And the Warder is Despair.
Hand-written medical notes. Medical writing or publishing.
Top view of open holy bible
Old postcards with handwritten text
Detail of an old medieval manuscript in sepia, shallow depth of field
Manuscript, drawings, inscriptions by Leonardo Da Vinci in the old book The Codice Sul Volo, by E. Rouveyre , 1940
11th century copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle located in the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom in London, UK.
Open ancient handwritten book with pictures lies on a wooden table. Near the book inkwell with quill pen. Vintage still life.
Financial figures from fire damage insurance claim on paper from 1962.
old copybook with nib isolated on white background
Simulated medieval manuscript in gothic blackletter with illuminated drop cap at the beginning, making a frame of text around space for your copy.
Vintage handwritten letter
Carpe diem written in the dictionary
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