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The Travels of Marco Polo. The Polo Brothers bid farewell to Constantinople en route to Trebizond and the Silk Route.
Le Livre des Merveilles,15th cent. Bibliotheque Nationale MS Fr. 2810.

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Head broken at neck. Framing the forehead “are three separate masses of hair…one in the center made up of two separate tiers, and two at the sides.…The forehead is plastically modeled with two horizontal bony masses.…Upon the surface are…

393 CE

Cut from a single block of marble, an inscription reads: "In fulfillment of a vow and for the salvation of the most glorious Anastasia." The style of the ciborium supports a date of the 6th century, which has allowed it to be identified with a noble…

This map of the Holy Land appears in Matthew Paris' Chronica Majora vol. 1, written and illustrated by Paris.

You can see the full manuscript here: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/rf352tc5448

In the style of the first half of the 15th century

From “Croniques abregies commençans au temps de Herode Antipas, persecuteur de la chrestienté, et finissant l'an de grace mil IIc et LXXVI”

Full manuscript: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b550069168/f1.item

Folio from a manuscript of Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa 'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Men's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi: Treasurer, money changer, courier and jeweler; tent, pavilion, drum, and banner; lion, onager,…

This painting is considered to be in the "Maniera Greca."

The Madaba Map is a floor mosaic that contains the oldest surviving cartographic depiction of the Holy Land. It dates to the 6th century and is found at the Church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. The presence and absence of various monuments has…