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Historical Archive: Manuscripts, Detached seal impressions, and Prints book of wood/wax tablets w. Greek school exercises, Byzantine Egypt 4th-5th c., SMB EgMP P14000. For profile view see Berlin. Christ and Apostles during the storm at sea, Oxyrhynchus papyrus, 313-640, Florence MA Alexandrian World Chronicle fragment, papyrus, 7th c., Pushkin Clovis II charter of 654, papyrus, AN K2 no3, which has its own page Merovingian relic label, obverse, Sens CT library J55 (Chartraire 82). For details and reverse see Sens. Merovingian relic label, obverse, Sens CT library J53 (Chartraire 110). For reverse see Sens. Durham Casssiodorus, 8th c., Durham Cathedral Library MS B. II. 30 (Not available in higher resolution) Chilperic II (reg. 715-21) charter: 716 March 5, AN K3 no18. For seal see AN. Gundohinus Gospels, 754-55, Autun CGM 3, this opening of which has its own page Gellone Sacramentary, c.780-800, BN Lat 12048, which has its own page relic labels from portable reliquary Sens CT F.63.70, obverse (Merovingian label reversed). For reliquary, reverses, and individual labels see Sens reliquary. Carolingian relic label, obverse, Sens CT library J81 (Chartraire 154). For reverse see Sens. Carolingian relic label, obverse, Sens CT library J80 (Chartraire 155). For reverse see Sens. Carolingian relic label, obverse, Sens CT library J36 (Chartraire 156). For reverse see Sens. Collectio Canonum Conciliorum Gallia, c.800: Nov. 6, 513 letter from Pope Symmacus to Caesarius of Arles, Bibliothèque apostolique Vaticane Pal. Lat 574 ff. 15v-16r. For other views see Vat. Louis the Pious (reg. 814-40) charter: 820 Oct. 22, AN K8 no10. For seal see AN. Alcuin Letters, c.820, British Library MS Harley 208 (Not available at higher resolution) Charles the Bald (d.877) charter: 843 Aug. 30, AN K10 no7/2. For seal see AN. Charles III the Fat (reg. 876-87) charter: 882, Frankfurt Staatsarchiv Röhmer-Lau Ur I8, Urk. Bartholmäusstift Nr. 1a. For seal see Frankfurt Staatsarchiv. Charles III the Fat (reg. 876-87) charter: 882 Dec. 2, Frankfurt Staatsarchiv Röhmer-Lau Ur I8, Urk. Bartholmäusstift Nr. 1b. For seal see Frankfurt Staatsarchiv. Epistle of James, 9th to 10th c. White Monastery, Pushkin St. Artemon of of Laodikeia, MS Byzantine 10th c.; pendant reliquary, copper/glass Rome? 12th-13th c.; Vat 61918 11th c. relic label, obverse, Sens CT library J50 (Chartraire 33). For reverse see Sens. 11th c. relic label, obverse, Sens CT library J43 (Chartraire 63). For reverse see Sens. relic labels in reliquary tablet, 11th c?, Halberstadt, cathedral treasury 46 Old Church Slavonic psalter, linden wood/wax, prob. 1020s, Novgorod AM. For detail and oblique view see Novgorod. seal of Emperor Konrad, 19 May 1030, Archiv Uk. 5 in NaumburgCT, which has its own page with seal detail charter of Emperor Henry III, 10 Oct. 1039, Archiv Uk. 10 in NaumburgCT, which has its own page with seal detail Pandect of Antiochus the Blacksmith, c.1040-60, GIM Voskresenskij 30p, MSHM Cluny Lectionary: Ascension of Christ, Burgundy (Cluny) c.1100, Cluny Cl.23757. For details see Cluny. Yuriev (Apakos) Gospel, scribe Fedor Ugrinets, 1119-1128, MSHM Arkhangelsk Gospel, c.1200-50 northeast Rus (Rostov?), MSHM St. Francis preaching to birds, prayer book c.1230-40, Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, which has its own page private seal imprint, Marguerite de Constantinople, countess of Flanders 1244-80, Cluny Cl. 22299, Louvre OA 6691. For oblique view see Cluny. St. Catherine of Alexandria, fr. MS Golden Legend, north Italy? c.1265-1300, Cluny Cl. 23425 reliquary capsule, silver gilt, Trier poss. c.1270, Schn G645. For lid see Schn. relic labels: Tablet reliquary, late 13th-c. Mount Athos or Venice; cedar wood, copper alloy, horn, silver, manuscript, glass, beads, gems; MRAH 3225. This work has its own page. relic labels: panel reliquary, oak/horn/silver gilt/polychrome, late 13th c., poss. Cologne, Schn E216. For full work see Schn. liturgical chants and St. Francis legenda minor, Tongeren? late 13th c., the Hague, National Library of the Netherlands 70 E4, fols. 110v-111r, which has its own page miniature prayer/devotional book, 14th c., WienMus. For scale see WienMus. prayer/devotional book, 14th c., WienMus gathering: prayer/devotional book, 14th c., WienMus folded prayer/devotional book, 14th c., WienMus Golden Horde MS, Uighur script on birch bark, 14th c., Hermitage, which has its own page with 4 panels relic labels in reliquary icon: conversion to reliquary with horn 14th/15th-c. Germany; frame silver gilt on wood, Constantinople 11th/12th c.; Nativity ivory, Venice?, 12th/13th c. Louvre OA 11399. This work has its own page. undated relic label, obverse, Sens CT library J79 (Chartraire 31). For reverse see Sens. seal imprint of King Philippe IV le Bel of France, c.1300, Cl. 22297, Cluny: Louvre OA 6301. For full cords see Cluny. St. Francis legenda maior by Jacob van Maerlant, c.1300-50, Leiden University Library BPL 101, fol. 02r. For full opening see Leiden. Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Jean Pucelle c.1324-28, Met 54.1.2, which has its own page. Streeter-Picard Hours, fol. 77v, Flanders, second 1/4 15th c., Bryn Mawr College Library MS 27; for details see Bryn Mawr Ethiopian Gospels, late 14th-early 15th c., Met 1998.66, which has its own page. relic labels: reliquary of Pont-Saint-Esprit, 1429, wood/silver gilt: SS Caesarius, Blaise. Musée d'art sacré du Gard. For detail see Pont-Saint-Esprit. Annunciation, woodcut/paper, Oberrhein c.1430-40, WienMus charter of Abbess Katharina von Hoya authorizing construction of a chapel, Dec. 13, 1433, WienMus. For other views see WienMus. St. Bernward of Hildesheim with Cistercian nun, paper, Wienhausen, c.1450-1500, WienMus St. Barbara, parchment, north German, c.1450-1500, WienMus song book (Wienhäuser Liederbuch), paper, c.1470, WienMus Hs. 9 Wienhausen necrology 1474-1622, parchment, WienMus relic label 1481: Arm reliquary Charlemagne, AachenCT. This work has its own page. St. Bernard of Clairvaux with dogs, parchment, Wienhausen late 15th c., WienMus Stigmatization of St. Francis, copper engraving on paper, Netherlandish c.1500, WienMus writing board for Islamic school, wood, Egbira people in Nigeria 1960-75; IMA, lent by Children's Museum of Indianapolis 88.242.1 [F25a6] TR 9401/1 Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, Iran, mid 1520s-30s, Met 1970.301. This manuscript has its own page. Zaharija Orfelin, Serbian perpetual calendar, Vienna 1783, Belgrade MAA 608. For detail see Belgrade MAA. Robinson Crusoe in Serbian, Buda 1799, Belgrade MAA 4246. For detail see Belgrade MAA. Chang Ku-nien (1906–1987), Lone Rooster Summons the Spring, 1981, ink and color on paper, UMMA 2006/1.112. Art object copyright: artist/heirs. St. Francis poster displayed in Saint-Denis 2011. For full poster and another detail of graffiti prayers see Saint-Denis interior.