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Detail of an old medieval  manuscript in sepia, shallow depth of field
Litang is a famous town on national Highway 318, with nearly 4,000 m above sea level, so it calls itself the \
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
Vintage paper with Arabic script writing
Old handwritten letter
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Religious art and architectural details in Sacro Monte di Varallo, Italy
Sucre, Bolivia, April 12 2023 : close-up of the Bolivian Declaration of Independence in the Casa de la Libertad. Original manuscript.
Nepali scriptures details from a buddhist bell in Kathmandu.
Illuminated antiquities and historical ruins at night - Ephesus Ancient City - İzmir / Turkey
Ancient open book in arabic. Old arabic manuscripts and texts
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
Sera Monastery is one of three main Tibetan Temples in  Lhasa, built in 1419, by the follower of Tibetan Buddhist Master Je Tsongkhapa, Losang Dragpa (1357-1419). Prayers walked inside the Sela temple and prayed for the future life everyday,
Old postcards with handwritten text
Vintage Victorian bookplate, title, Atlas of Ancient Geography 19th Century
Close up of an old Tibetan manuscript. The kings’ minister Thonmi Sambhota developed the Tibetan script to accommodate the influx of the Buddha’s teachings, Sutra and Tantra manuscripts from India.
Illuminated antiquities and historical ruins at night - close-up - Ephesus Ancient City - İzmir / Turkey
Aged handwritten manuscript text. Calligraphy on old paper, vintage background
Wooden printing plate of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures, part close-up
LHASA, TIBET CHINA - July 3, 2022: Sign above the entrance of Sera Monastery. Colorful ornaments and figures assemble around the writing Sera Monastery (written in several different languages).
Hands of a Tibetan monk with an ancient prayer book while he is reading in the assembly hall of a monastery in Central Tibet.
Background shot of a section of old English text
Thimphu, Bhutan: Bhutan seeks Gross National Happiness (GNH) instead of GDP - sign in Dzongkha and English for the Perspective Planning Division, Gross National Happiness Commission, Royal Government of Bhutan - Gross National Happiness (GNH), sometimes called Gross Domestic Happiness (GDH), is a philosophy that guides the government of Bhutan. GNH, is a holistic and sustainable approach to development, which balances material and non-material values with the conviction that humans want to search for happiness. The objective of GNH is to achieve a balanced development in all the facets of life. It includes an index which is used to measure the collective happiness and well-being of a population, the Gross National Happiness Index is instituted as the goal of the government of Bhutan in the Constitution - Norzim Lam, downtown, bliss,
Worshippers  were praying in Sera Monastery, Lhasa, China. They walked around a buddha tower to pray for  a better future.
Nepal sacred stones mani with mantra written and carved on the surface. Prayer stones shire on the mountain trekking path on Everest Base Camp trek. Nepali buddhist mantra Om Mani Padme Hum on rock
A possible first century Greek Manuscript of the New Testament, published as a facsimile by Constantine Simonides in 1861. Simonides was a convicted forger and although this facsimile was denounced as a forgery, it has never been proven.
Text carved in sandstone 17th century Germany 1704
The Ancient Phœnician manuscript. The most first Alphabet in The World, The Middle East, c.1500–1200 B.C. || A sample of the Semitic text of the First Day of Creation (The Book of Genesis 1:1-5), the consonantal proto-writing [from right to left]: «In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness upon the face of the deep. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light…». — Real Ancient papyrus with applied the Ancient Phœnician Letters, sheet of parchment, Ragged scroll, handmade paper, textured canvas.
Vinatge handwriting on old blue paper background, Petit journal pour rire, french 19th Century
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