Five hundred years before we landed on the moon, imaginative medieval manuscript makers created these moon masterpieces.
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1. Alexander the Great Returning to his Army; Alexander the Great Consulting the Prophetic Trees of the Sun and the Moon, about 1400ā1410, Unknown, illuminator and Jansen Enikel, author. Getty Museum
2. The Creation of Heaven and Earth, The Separation of Light and Darkness, The Separation of Water and Land, The Creation of Birds and Fishes, The Creation of Animals, The Creation of Eve, about 1400ā1410, Unknown, illuminator and Rudolf von Ems, author. Getty Museum
3. The Creation, about 1480ā1490, Unknown, illuminator. Getty Museum
4. The Creation of the World, 1637ā1638, Malnazar, illuminator and Aghap'ir, illuminator. Getty Museum
5. The Circumcision, about 1400ā1410, Unknown, illuminator and Brother Philipp, author. Getty Museum
6. The Moon Represented as a Woman on Horseback, shortly after 1464, Unknown, illuminator....