[Verin Noravankʻ Gospels]
This beautifully illuminated gospel book was copied in 1487 AD at the Monastery of Verin Noravank in Armenia. The exact location of the monastery is unknown, although, since the late 1980s, it…
Chenghua er shi san nian hui shi lu : yi juan
成化二十三年會試錄 : 一卷 | Title on spine of case: Hui shi lu, Chenghua er shi san nian yi ce | Hui shi lu, Chenghua er shi san nian yi ce
This work is a collection of civil examination records dated the 23rd year of the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty (1487). The civil examination system in China officially began in the…
Contributor:
Wu, Kuan - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Yin, Zhi
Date:1487
Book/Printed Material
Antiphonarium Bratislaviense.
This illuminated folio with Metz Gothic musical notation comes from the liturgical codex of Canon Jan Han, who was a client of the Bratislava Chapter and the purchaser of this antiphonary. The…