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Gospel Book
This manuscript Gospel book is believed to have been produced around 1150 in Passau, Germany. This codex and the Gospel of Passau (also in the World Digital Library) are outstanding manuscripts,...
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Literal Commentary on Genesis
De Genesi ad litteram (Literal commentary on Genesis) is an exegetical text on the first book of the Bible by Saint Augustine (354–430). This manuscript of Augustine’s commentary dating from between...
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Etymology, Books 1-9
Etymologiae (Etymology) by Saint Isidore of Seville (circa 560−636) is an extensive encyclopedia of the knowledge of Late Antiquity. The opus was widely circulated and read in the Middle Ages. Isidore...
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Gospel Lectionary
The illumination of this early 11th century lectionary is a late example of the Ottonian tradition of book illumination. The manuscript features 292 golden majuscule initials, 30 initials in gold, and...
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Pericopes (Sections) Book of Henry II
This Gospel manuscript, probably the most impressive work of the Reichenau school of illumination, was commissioned by Henry II (973–1024) for Bamberg Cathedral, which he founded in 1007 and dedicated...
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Southwest Arabia: Mecca, Sheet 8
This map is part of a series of nine large-scale depictions of the southwestern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. The map covers the region from Mecca and its port of Jeddah (now Jiddah) in the north...
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Southwest Arabia: Ebha, Sheet 4
This 1917 map is part of a series of nine large-scale depictions of the southwestern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. It was published by the British Ordnance Survey in cooperation with the...
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Southwest Arabia: Taiz, Sheet 1
This 1916 map shows the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula, an area in the present-day Republic of Yemen. The large scale allows for the display of detail about cities and towns, tribes,...
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Approximate Distribution of the Rites or Schools of Law and Religious Sects...
This map illustrates the varieties of religious affiliation in the Muslim populations of the Middle East. It shows the locations of adherents to the four schools of Sunni jurisprudence and the...
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Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf
This map of the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf emphasizes the physical terrain and transportation routes as surveyed in 1916 by the Survey of India, the cartographic branch of the British...
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A Map of North Western Arabia and Nejd
This map shows portions of present-day Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It was drawn by British traveler Charles Montagu Doughty (1843−1926) and published in 1884. A similar map accompanied the first edition...
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Northern Arabia
This highly detailed map was produced by the British War Office for the Royal Geographical Society with the permission of the controller of His Majesty’s Stationery Office in March 1922. It shows the...
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The Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf
This undated Italian map of the Middle East was published by the firm G.B. Paravia of Turin, Italy. It is a political map marking the boundaries of states and empires at the date of printing, probably...
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Central Arabia: Route from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea
This map sheet displays three views of the central Arabian Peninsula. It was created by the legendary Harry Saint John Bridger Philby (1885−1960), a British adventurer, political counsellor, author,...
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Travel Routes of Northern Arabia
Shown here is a rough map of the Bedouin grazing routes in the Arabian Desert from Palmyra, Syria, in the north to Hijaz (in present-day Saudi Arabia) in the south. The map was published by the...
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The Failure of the German Offensive at Kaunas
This print showing a battle scene is from the collection of World War I lubok posters held at the British Library. The caption explains, in the words of a Russian reporter for the newspaper Early...
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The Heroic Feat of Don Cossack Kuzma Kryuchkov During a Fight with German...
This print showing cavalry engaged in combat is from the collection of World War I lubok posters held at the British Library. The caption explains: “A small patrol of six Cossacks crossed the Prussian...
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The Russian-German War. 1914
This print showing the scene of a battle between Russians and Germans in 1914 is from the collection of World War I lubok posters held at the British Library. The caption explains: “On August 7, the...
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The Comprehensive Elucidation of the Interpretation of the Qurʼan
This is the earliest printed edition of Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari’s seminal commentary on the Qurʼan, known as Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī (The exegesis of al-Tabari). The text in 30 volumes is accompanied in...
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"The Daily Telegraph" War Map of Egypt and the Near East (Number 6)
This general map of the Middle East was published in London 1918. It shows Anatolia, Egypt, and the Arabian Desert. Despite the title, it is not focused on the region as a theater of battle. The...
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