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    Der Naturen Bloeme: The Flower of Nature (ca. 1350)
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    Der Naturen Bloeme: The Flower of Nature (ca. 1350)

    Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)
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    John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (1868)
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    John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (1868)

    The Unicorn Tapestries (1495–1505)
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    The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921)
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    Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus (9th Century)
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    Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus (9th Century)

    Highlights from The Cleveland Museum of Art’s release of more than 30k images of public domain works
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    Highlights from The Cleveland Museum of Art’s release of more than 30k images of public domain works

    Spells Against the Evil Spirits of Babylonia (1903)
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    Spells Against the Evil Spirits of Babylonia (1903)

    Cosmography Manuscript (12th Century)
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    Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482)
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    Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482)

    The Book of Exposition: A Collection of 15th-Century Erotica from the Middle East (1900)
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    Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)
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    Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)

    The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)
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    Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century
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    Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century

    Miniatures from a 12th-century Medical and Herbal Collection
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    Miniatures from a 12th-century Medical and Herbal Collection

    Rainbows in Art
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    The Human Alphabet
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    Details from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500)
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    Details from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500)

    The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams
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    Anatomical Illustrations from 15th-century England
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    15th-Century Illuminations for Dante’s Divine Comedy
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    The Art of Dreams
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