Codex: Did you mean...?

This is a festive and richly illuminated codex-type manuscript made of Persian and Italian watermarked paper. Written (or copied) in the Georgia Nuskhuri script by Zosime from Vale at Samtskhe Atabegs court scriptorium around 1514 CE, this...

A medieval manuscript illustration depicting the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI (r. 1191-1197 CE). (Codex Manesse, 1305-1315 CE)

The Mesoamerican god Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli or 'Dawn Lord' who represented the planet Venus, especially as the morning star. From the 16th century CE Codex Telleriano-Remensis

An engraving from the St. Epure codex depicting Paulus Orosius (commonly known simply as 'Orosius') who lived in the 5th century CE and was a Christian theologian and historian of note.

Collection of poems (masnavi), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.625, fol. 51b A leaf from an elegantly calligraphed and illuminated copy of the collection of poems, known as Mas̱navī-i maʿnavī, by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d.672 AH / 1273 CE). This codex...

Jan Žižka leading his army, illustration from the Jena codex, c. 1490-1510.

Courtly Love is a literary genre of poetry that began in the south of France in the 12th century during the period known as the High Middle Ages. In this new genre of poetry, motifs were established that are still commonly used today in the...