Books in Calligraphy

The Aberdeen Bestiary
A pilot scheme for producing digitised images of manuscripts on the World Wide Web.

Bodleian Library
Images taken from the Bodleian Library's slide collection of manuscripts.

Calligraphy Examples from the Koran
Some examples of calligraphy drawn from the scriptures of the Koran, and some calligraphy animals

The Charrette Project
A complex, scholarly, multi-media electronic archive containing the medieval manuscript tradition of Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette.

DScriptorium
Devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts (D is for Digital).

Irish
Some sample illuminated pages of ancient Irish poems in eighth century Irish half-uncial script.

Lynda Hamilton
Images from this medieval book of hours.

Medieval Manuscript Leaves
Fifty one leaves from medieval manuscripts from Western Europe during the 12th through 16th centuries.

Persian
Old Persian sayings and philosophy with illuminations in the Persian style.

Trajan
The book lettering style of the late father Edward M. Catich as used in the Trajan Inscription in Rome.

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