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MS in Norwegian on paper, Norway, 1993, 5 vols, in Norwegian cursive script, capitals, italics, and half-uncial by 10761 scribes from 209 Norwegian dioceses. One page has the Lord's prayer illustrated with deaf language positions and signs.

MS in Middle high German on paper, Monastery Zwettl, Waldviertel, Austria, ca. 1380, 29-33 lines in a current Austrian lettre bâtarde, by 3 scribes.

MS in Nahuatl on paper and figtree bark paper, Mexico, ca. 1525-1550, 15-19 lines in a Hispano-Aztec rounded book script, decorated initials, and Aztec hieroglyphs, and 64 Indian heads.

MS in Ge'ez and Amharic on vellum, Ethiopia, 1519/1520, 25-33 lines in Ethiopic Ge'ez book script, section headings in red, elaborate ornamental headpiece for each gospel and within the text, and 4 full-page miniatures of the evangelists.

MS in Ge'ez on vellum, Ethiopia, ca. 1400, 209 ff. (complete), 49x36 cm, 2 columns, (36x25 cm), 38 lines lines in square Ge'ez book script, headings in red, 8 ornamental headpieces and frames (harägs) in red, green and yellow.

MS in Russian Church Slavonic on paper, Russia, 1800-1820, with the commentary of Archnishop Andrew of Caesarea. Headings in red, multicoloured headpieces of ribbon-, strap- or ironwork, some with birds alighting facing the illustrations, with 72 full-page pen drawings with bright washes within a yellow frame.

MS in Russian Church Slavonic on paper, Russia, 1812, with headings and passages in red, 4 tendril-work headpieces in red and blue, and 74 full-page miniatures in full colours.

MS in Russian Church Slavonic on paper, Russia, 1550-1560, Balkan style, with 4 full-page miniatures of the Evangelists within geometric borders in bright opaque colours in traditional iconographic style.

MS in Church Slavonic on vellum, Bulgaria or Serbia, late 15th c., 25 lines in a semi cursive Cyrillic book script, with title "Davida Proroka Tsare Pesne" in Cyrillic display uncials, initials in red and yellow, many incorporating fantasy animals, with decorated headpiece in brown, red and yellow, incorporating beasts.

MS in Church Slavonic on paper, Monastery of Neamtu, Moldavia, ca. 1450, 22-26 lines in a elegant Cyrillic half-uncial, by Gabriel Uric of Neamtu, 2-line initials in calligraphic ujaz, strips of interlacing ornament in gold and colours, marginal chapter numbers with gold and red.
MS in Syriac on vellum, Eastern Syria, late 9th to 10th c., 187 ff. (-115), 25x18 cm, single column, (21x13 cm), 28-29 lines in a very fine, regular East Syriac estrangela book script, with contemporary marginal notes.

MS in Syriac on vellum, Syria(?), late 5th c., 5 1/2 ff., 29x21 cm, 2 columns, (22x17 cm), 24 lines in a clear early Syriac estrangela book script, titles in red, later liturgical instructions in red.