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Mei Weber

Mei Weber writes for the Illumination (Tezhip) department at Matchless Pieces, covering the history, makers and collecting of illumination (tezhip).

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Text and illumination, folio 2 (recto) from a Kammavacha: Buddhist ordination text — Myanmar (Burma)

Text and illumination, folio 2 (recto) from a Kammavacha: Buddhist ordination text

October 10, 2026Initial T from a Choral Book with Isaac and Esau — Bartolomeo da Gallarate

Initial T from a Choral Book with Isaac and Esau

October 10, 2026Leaf from an Antiphonary: Text (verso) — Italy

Leaf from an Antiphonary: Text (verso)

October 10, 2026Leaf from a Bible: Initial E: Entwined Lions and Serpents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves) — England, Glastonbury(?), 13th century

Leaf from a Bible: Initial E: Entwined Lions and Serpents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves)

October 10, 2026Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Labors (recto) — Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century

Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Labors (recto)

October 10, 2026Jesus being awakened during a tempest on the Sea of Galilee (folio 77 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier — Anonymous, made for Prince Salim (1569–1627)

Jesus being awakened during a tempest on the Sea of Galilee (folio 77 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

October 10, 2026Double-Sided Leaf from a Qur'an — Seljuk Iran

Double-Sided Leaf from a Qur’an

October 10, 2026Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi" — England, Canterbury

Peter of Poitiers’s “Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi”

October 10, 2026Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation — Lorenzo Veneziano

Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation

October 10, 2026Ikiyasan Isakiji — Nukina Kaioku

Ikiyasan Isakiji

October 10, 2026

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