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Cave painting from Lascaux
15,000-10,000bce
Prehistoric
Early sumerian pictographic tablet
C. 3100bce
Mesopotamian
Archaic tablet fragment
late fourth Millennium bce
Mesopotamian
Old Babylonian in Akkadian. World's oldest cookbook
C. 1850bce
Mesopotamian
The Blau monument
Early sumerian, third quarter, fourth Millennium bce
Mesopotamian
Stele bearing the Code of Hammurabi
1792-1750bce
Mesopotamian
Detail of the Code of Hammurabi
C. 1800bce
Mesopotamian
The Rosetta Stone
197-196bce
Egyptian
Alphabet placed beside hieroglyphs in cartouches of Ptolemy and Cleopatra
Egyptian
Old Kingdom palette, drawstring sack for dried ink cakes, Reed brush holder.
The weighing of the souls from the book of the dead
C.1420
Egyptian
Scarab of Ikhnaton and Nefertiti
1370bce
Egyptian
The Diamond Sutra
868ce
Chinese
The Book of Durrow, the man, symbol of Matthew
680ce
Celtic book design
The Book of Durrow,openkng page, the Gospel of Saint Mark
680ce
Celtic book design
The Lindisfarne Gospels, carpet page
698ce
Celtic book design
The Book of Kells, the Chi-Rho page
794-806ce
Celtic book design
The Book of Kells, symbols for authors of the four Gospels
C. 794-806ce
Celtic book design
Coronation Gospels, opening pages of Saint Mark's Gospel
C. 800ce
Carolingian
St. Matthew from the Ebbo Gospels
Ninth century
Carolingian
The Limbourg brothers, Jan-Feb pages from Les Tues riches hueres du duc de Berry
1413-16
Late Medieval
Jack of Diamonds
woodblock playing card
C. 1400
Saint Christopher
Woodblock print
1423
Letter K from a grotesque alphabet
Woodblock
C. 1464
Standebuch (Book of Trades)
Jost Amman
Woodblock illustrations
1568
Pages 146-147 of Guttenberg Bible
Johann Gutenberg
1450-55
Page 266 of Guttenberg Bible
Johann Gutenberg
1450-55
Renaissance
Page from Rationale Divinorum Officiorum
Jan Fust and Peter Schoeffer
1459