The Zodiac Man

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

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)

Erbario: a 15th-century Herbal from Northern Italy

Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (ca. 1353)

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

The Unicorn Tapestries (1495–1505)

The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921)

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

Spells Against the Evil Spirits of Babylonia (1903)

Cosmography Manuscript (12th Century)

Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482)

The Book of Exposition: A Collection of 15th-Century Erotica from the Middle East (1900)

Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)

The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century

Miniatures from a 12th-century Medical and Herbal Collection

Rainbows in Art

The Human Alphabet

Details from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500)

The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams

Anatomical Illustrations from 15th-century England

15th-Century Illuminations for Dante’s Divine Comedy