Chester Beatty Library
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The Chester Beatty Library, now known as the Chester Beatty, is a museum and library in the grounds of Dublin Castle, Ireland. It was established in 1953 at 20 Shewsbury Road, Dublin 4, to house the c
Entrance of the Chester Beatty, Dublin, Ireland
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'Manual on the Arts of Horsemanship' by al-Aqsara'i. Cairo, 1366.
Serapion of Edessa's Abridged Bible. Amida, 1601
Yongle Encyclopedia
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The Yongle Encyclopedia or Yongle Dadian is a Chinese leishu encyclopedia commissioned by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty in 1403 and completed by 1408. It comprised 22,937 manuscript rolls in
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…amusements and ceremonies. Myanmar, 19th century Court amusements and ceremonies. Myanmar, after 1885 Chinese collection Chapters 10,110 to 10,112 of the 'Great encyclopaedia of the Yongle Reign' Imperially commissioned illustrations of agriculture and sericulture. Woodblock print by Zhu Gui after designs by Jiao Bingzhen. 1696 Paintings of…
The Yongle Encyclopedia (volume 2539), in 2014, on display at the National Library of China
The Yongle Encyclopedia volume 2262
A page from the manuscript of 'Yongle Encyclopedia'. Chester Beatty Library
The Yongle Encyclopedia volume 808 on display at the Bodleian Library in Oxford University