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Holkham Bible Picture Book - ADD MS 47682

An Anglo-Norman 14th century illuminated manuscript with sections in English on 42 leaves of Parchment, 285 x 210mm. (The British Library: Digitised…

Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur

A Middle French Mid-late 15th Century illuminated manuscript with Latin quotations on 166 leaves of parchment. (Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford…

Gospels of St Augustine, folio 165r

Manuscript on vellum of Jerome's vulgate translation of the gospels, 245x190mm, possibly brought to Canterbury by Augustine himself in the late 6th…

f.161r (detail

see f.160v-161r

The Death of Zahhak

This folio illustrates a scene from Abolqasem Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh which “recounts the history of Iran before Islam” (Canby 13). This scene is…

f.162v (detail)

see folio 162v-163r

f160r (detail)

See folio 159v-160r