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The Creation of the Sun and the Moon (detail) from the Historical Bible, about 1360 –70, Master of Jean de Mandeville (French, active 1350–70). Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment.
The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages at Getty
The J.
Nelson's Order of Battle for Trafalgar
Horatio Nelson's Trafalgar Order of Battle Sold for $189,888 at Auction
A signed 'Order of Battle' document issued by Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson from HMS Victory days before the Battle of Trafalgar has sold for $189,888 in
A spread from the short story Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press at Charleston
Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press is a new exhibition opening next week at Charleston which focuses on Virginia Woolf’s pivotal but lesser-kn
The Shikshapatri by Sahajananda Swami (Lord Swarminarayan)
Sacred Hindu Shikshapatri Text On Tour to Mark Bicentenary
One of the world’s most significant Hindu scriptures has left the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries and is on a historic tour across the United K
The Virginia Woolf letter
Virginia Woolf Letter Dismissing Her Work to Auction
A three-page typed letter signed by Virginia Woolf and a handwrit
Charles Dickens television series logo
BBC Announces Major New Series on Charles Dickens for National Year of Reading
A new three-part BBC television series will explores the life and inspirations of the novelist, journalist and social campaigner
Queen Elizabeth I Letter Signed to the Archbishop of York, Excusing Him from Attending Parliament
Queen Elizabeth I Letter, Stuyvesant Land Grant, and Jefferson–Madison Appointment to Auction
A 1510 vellum warrant signed by King Henry VIII and a 1601 letter signed by his daughter Queen Elizabeth I excusing the Archbishop of York from attending her final Parliament are among the highligh
From Superman #75
Original Art from The Death of Superman to Auction
The Man of Steel's battle against a prehistoric Krypton creature called Doomsday chronicled in 1992's Superman #75 The Death of Superman is estimate to have sold more tham 6m copies.
A selection of the lots in the The La bibliothèque poétique de Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller auction
Unique Collection of 16th Century French Poetry to Auction
Five years after the inaugural sale, the fourth and final The Poetic Library of Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller will be held in Christie's Paris on March 24, near
First edition of Sean O’Casey’s play The Plough and the Stars, a Tragedy in Four Acts (1926), inscribed to painter Augustus John
New Exhibition Focuses on The Irish Literary Revival
A new exhibition at The Grolier Club looks at the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside the Irish nationhood using ra