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Hampshire, UK - September 17, 2021:  An historic manuscript,  hundreds of years old, handwritten in Norman French.
An antique copy of the Hebrew scriptures and New Testament Bible from the 1800's.  Detail shot of the Lord's Prayer as taught to his disciples.
Ostroh, Ukraine, June 3, 2022. The text of the prayer Our Father in ancient Greek and in Old Slavonic in an ancient book
Vintage photograph of two young woman singing Home, Sweet Home. by Lyddell Sawyer, Victorian.
Girona, Spain - 18 July, 2024: Illustrated manuscript of the Beatus of Girona
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.
Jerusalem, Israel - December 8, 2013: A Bible written in ancient Geez language in the in Ethiopian Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
A certificate awarded to a school child by a British county council in recognition of “good conduct, industry and attendance during the year 1916-17” as the awarding of medals had been suspended “during the Great War”. (All identifying details have been removed.)
TURIN, ITALY - CIRCA MAY 2021: antique Medieval manuscript with ancient calligraphy.
A print from an old 18th century Bible of the flight to Egypt from Bethlehem in the Christmas story, Mary riding on a donkey with the Christ child.  A key story in the Christian faith.
Choir Book about 1380 illumination by Don Simone Camaldolese. Made for monastery probably Tuscany.
Old Victorian newspaper page, 19th Century
Open old christian book in the Ipatievsky Monastery. Kostroma, Russia. May, 2013.
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Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
A closeup of a book in the National Library of Madrid
Unfilled marriage page in a Bible circa the 1880s.
Priestess Mucha a portrait from Czech money
Vicenza - The stone mosaic (Pietra Dura) of Resurrection of Jesus on the main altar in the chruch Chiesa di Santa Corona by Corbarelli  (1670-1671).
Vintage book page, of Etymology, study of the history of words, English language, 18th Century
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Detail with initial letter and musical notation from illuminated antiphonary manuscript from Ferarra
Ancient books, Marche region in central Italy
Page of the Christian Bible open to Mark 13:24, heralding the coming of Jesus.
Italy, Siena - December 26 2016: the view of the ancient books in biblioteca Piccolomini of Siena Cathedral on December 26 2016 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
Open Book, Title Page: The Paradiso (Dante)
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