Codex Amiatinus ‘Ezra Portrait’

Morgan Picture Bible (13th Century)

Detail of folio 16v

Douce Apocalypse

‘The Woman in the Sun’, 13th Century

Hildegard of Bingen

‘All Beings Celebrate Creation’

Lindisfarne Gospels’ Chi Rho

Folio from Blue Qur’an (Tunisia, 9th/10th century)

Christina of Markyate, St Albans Psalter

The Book of Kells, detail of Mark incipit 

Master Honoré de Amiens, Somme le roi (c1290)

al-Jazari, The Elephant Clock (Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices), 1315

Blemmyae, The Marvels of the East, Cotton Tiberius B (c1025-50)

Initial P, Corbie Psalter (early 9th century)

Capricorn, Queen Mary Psalter (c1310-20)

Jean Pucelle, Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux