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Detail of <n>Mompei leggings</n> in cotton and indigo-dyed plain-weave hemp.

Bible, MS M.111 fol. 17r - Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

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Illustration from <n>Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing</n> by <n>Zakariya al-Qazwini</n>, ca. 1280.

A page from <n>Beda Venerabilis</n>'s <n>De natura rerum</n>, illuminated by <n>Attavante degli Attavanti</n> c. 1485-90 for the <n>Bibliotheca Corviniana</n> of King <n>Matthias Corvinus</n>.

<n>Silver Fish-form Etui</n>, possibly late 18th/early 19th century, from <n>Bonhams Skinner</n> auction.

Book of Hours, MS M.754 fol. 96v - Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

A page from <n>Jacobus de Theramo</n>'s manuscript <n>Belial</n>, circa 1461.

Jacobus de Theramo, ›Belial‹, deutsch. Buchstabenkörper I als stehender grüner Drache mit blauen Flügeln, aus rosa und grünem Akanthus wachsend (2r     ) , from: Jacobus : Jacobi de Ancharano (alias de Teramo) Litigatio Christi cum Belial, verdeutscht - BSB Cgm 48  ([S.l.] 1461) Cgm 48 - Digitised Book from the copyright-free holdings of the Bavarian State Library Munich [Germany] 2007-2024 Image-based Similarity Search

How did the Heart Become the Symbol of Love anyway?

<n>Historiated initial 'S' of Seneca</n> from his Tragedies, c. 1480-90. By the <n>Master of the London Pliny</n>.