ID: PFH1182248

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No. 7: Kaigaya Zaemon Tomonobu [Kaida] shielding himself with a cloth-covered koto. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862)

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: PFH1182262

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No. 21: Otaka Gengo Tadakatsu [Otaka] readying for a fight. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862)

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: PFH1182251

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No. 10: Tominomori Suke'emon Masayori [Tominomori] fending off a burning brazier with his sword. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862)

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: PFH1182254

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No. 13: Yada Goroemon Suketake [Yata] attacking through the shattered wall of a shoji with raised sword. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862)

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: PFH1182266

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No. 25: Onodera Junai Hidekazu [Onodera] shading his eyes while kneeling on one knee. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862)

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: BL70070

Add 10546 f.25b Moses receiving and transmitting the Law of God on Mount Sinai, from the Moutier-Grandval Bible, illuminated in the Carolingian Abbey of St. Martin, Tours, c.834-843 (vellum)

French School, (9th century)

ID: CND160493

Ms 722/1196 fol.372r St. Dominic and the test by fire of the heretic books and the orthodox book, from Le Miroir Historial, by Vincent de Beauvais (vellum)

French School, (15th century)

ID: XIR162167

View of the interior courtyard, 1443-51 (photo)

French School, (15th century)

ID: PFH1182256

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No. 15: Yoshida Sawaemon Kanesada [Yoshida] cutting arrows in midflight with his sword. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862)

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: PFH1182270

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No. 29: Kurahashi Densuke Takeyuki [Kurahashi] holding a sword and a painted scroll while searching Kira's house. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: PFH1182284

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No.43: Hazama Shinroku Mitzukaze [Yazama] brandishing a sword and a flag inscribed with his posthoumous name. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: PFH1182244

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No. 3: Maseki Yudayu Masaaki [Mase] aiming bow and arrow. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862)

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: PFH1182268

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No. 27: Isogai Jurozaemon Masahisa brandishing a naginata polearm. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862)

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: PFH1182274

Japan: The 47 Ronin or Loyal Retainers, No. 33: Oishi Sezaemon Nobukiyo [Oboshi] pursuing an adversary who has dropped his sword. 'Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai' (Seichu+D14224 gishi den, 1847-1848), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862)

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1798-1861)

ID: BAT254054

Bust of Quintilian (marble)

Italian School

ID: XIR203414

Fol.89v Four Arabic Backgammon Players, from the 'Book of Games, Chess, Dice and Boards', 1282 (vellum)

Spanish School, (13th century)

ID: CND277898

Ms.648/404 fol.102v The Madness of Tristan and Tristan before the Queen Isolde in Cornouaille, from Roman des Chevaliers Galaad, Tristan et Lancelot (vellum) (detail of 164477)

French School, (15th century)

ID: BAL3584

Jesus driving out the unclean spirit, relief, 10th century

ID: GUL232050

Ms Hunter 371 f.1r Dame Fortune and victims falling from her wheel, from Boccaccio's 'The Fall of Princes', 1467 (vellum)

French School, (15th century)

ID: CHT179386

Ms Arab 5847 f.29, Burial of a plague victim, from 'Al Maqamat' (The Meetings) by Al-Hariri, c.1240 (gouache on paper)

Al-Wasiti, Yahya ibn Mahmud (13th Century)

ID: XCF286453

Coat of Arms and White Hart, from 'The Wilton Diptych' c. 1395-99 (egg tempera on oak) (verso)

Master of the Wilton Diptych, (fl.c.1395-99)

ID: STC323604

King Arthur asks the Lady of the Lake for the sword Excalibur, from 'Stories of the Knights of the Round Table' by Henry Gilbert, first edition, 1911 (colour litho)

Crane, Walter (1845-1915) (after)

ID: CHT195594

Ms 22 Representation of Jews with pointed hats (vellum)

French School, (14th century)

ID: XIR63338

St. Francis honored by a simple man, 1297-99 (fresco)

Giotto (Giotto di Bondone) (c.1266-1337)

ID: LAM58917

Ms 6 f.174 The Siege of Berwick by Edward I, 1297, from 'St. Alban's Chronicle' (vellum)

English School, (15th century)

ID: GCL3390269

PARIS: NOTRE DAME, 1850s (b/w photo)

French School, (19th century)

ID: BMR173726

Ms 870 Fol.8 The Seven-headed Beast of the Apocalypse Venerated by a Hypocrite and Crushing a Saint, from 'La Somme le Roy' by Frere Laurent, illuminated by Maitre Honore (vellum)

French School, (13th century)

ID: MSC2973777

Lewis Chesspiece - King (walrus ivory)

Scandinavian school (12th century)

ID: BL60117

Add 42130 f.56 Border detail of an archer, from the 'Luttrell Psalter', c.1325-35 (vellum)

English School, (14th century)

ID: GIP129401

The Virgin Orans, c.1050 (mosaic)

Byzantine, (11th Century)

ID: COB66468

Ms Fr 343 fol.26v Sir Percival's horse is killed, from the Queste del Saint Graal, c.1380-85 (vellum)

Italian School, (14th century)

ID: XIR180069

Ms 18 fol.150r Battle of Nancy in 1477, from the 'Memoires de Philippe de Commines' (vellum)

French School, (16th century)

ID: CH372097

The Southwest Wing of the Cathedral in Reims, 1826 (oil on canvas)

Quaglio, Domenico II (1787-1837)

ID: XIR83891

f.142r The coronation of Louis I 'the Pious' (778-840) Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Stephen IV (pope 816-817) at Reims in 816, from the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1375-79 (vellum)

French School, (14th century)

ID: BLP491536

Cover of the oldest complete codex of the Hebrew Bible, c.1010 (pen & ink on vellum)

Yakob, Shmuel ben (fl.c.1010)

ID: JLJ4689237

Clovis's Baptism In Reims On 25 December 496, 1837 (oil on canvas)

Dejuinne, Francois Louis (1786-1844)