Literary illuminated manuscripts

German song manuscript of the Middle Ages

folio manuscript by Carl Gustav Jung

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poem by Amir Khusrow

5th century illustrated manuscript

early illustrated copy of Virgil

tenth century illustrated manuscript in the collections of the Bodleian Library

ancient Greek manuscript

manuscript of the early 14th century

15th century illuminated manuscript copy of the Canterbury Tales

icelandic manuscript

medieval Irish manuscript

The Marzbān-nāma () is an early 13th-century Persian prose work. It consists of "various didactic stories and fables used as illustrations of morality and right conduct", and belongs to the "mirror for princes" literary genre. It was written in 1210–1225 by Sa'ad al-Din Varavini, under the patronage of Abu'l-Qasem Harun, the vizier of the Eldiguzid ruler (atabeg) Muzaffar al-Din Uzbek (1210–1225).

Fragment of a 2nd-century Greek manuscript of an unknown romance

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5th-century papyrus fragment

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