I snapped a few pictures at the Huntington Library's "The Bible and the People" exhibit before I was jumped by a guard, who informed that no photography is allowed at all, even without flash. (In my defense, I didn't see a single sign or posting that said that, so how was I to know?)

Click on the picture to see the rest of the gallery.


[The Ellesmere Psalter: Latin, vulgate translation; written in England
in the first half of the 14th Century.]
Luxury Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (click on the first picture to see both exhibits):


(Armorial Tapestry:
France or Flanders, 1480-1520)


And the next exhibit down was Islamic Art, which exhibit included some beautiful manuscript pages:




(Section of a mihrab:
Iran, Kashan, early 14th C;
fritware, overglaze luster-painted,
with cobalt and turquoise)

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