var str = new Array();
str[0]="The prophetic papyrus.
Egipt. Fragment. 3rd century";
str[1]="The Codex Sinaiticus.
Fragments. Parchment. 4th century";
str[2]="Tetraevangelion. Miniature of St Mark
Gold on purple parchment. 9th century";
str[3]="Sophocles. Electra. 15th century";
str[4]="The story On Written Characters by Khrabr the Monk. Copy of 1348";
str[5]="The Glagolitic Zograph Gospel. 11th century ";
str[6]="The Izbornik (Miscellany) of 1076";
str[7]="The Lavrentyevskaya Chronicle of 1377";
str[8]="The 16-th century Illuminated Compiled Chronicle";
str[9]="The Tale of Woe and Misfortune";
str[10]="The bindings of old Russian manuscript books";
str[11]="The prayer book. 16th century";
str[12]="Pentateuch of 929. Egipt. Miniature of a candelabrum with seven branches";
str[13]="Miniatures of St Matthew the Evangelist and The Transfiguration
from a Georgian 16th-century manuscript";
str[14]="The Purple Koran. 12th century ";
str[15]="Rizai Abbasi. The Shepherd. Persian miniature. 1634";
str[16]="A gilded Persian leather binding. 16th century";
str[17]="Frontispiece of an Arabic manuscript of Kasidat al-Burda's Poem of the Cape. 1491";
str[18]="An Egyptian papyrus. 10th century B.C.";
str[19]="An album of drawings on palm-leaves with captions in the Sinhalese script. 18th century";
str[20]="The morocco binding of the Idyl of Regnault and Jeanneton made for Piotr Dubrovsky ";
str[21]="Ex libris for Piotr Sukhtelen";
str[22]="A medieval scriptorium";
str[23]="Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Copy of 746";
str[24]="Guiart des Moulins. The Bible Historiale. 14th century";
str[25]="The first page of the Bible Historiale bearing the signatures of John d'Albret; Henry II of Navarre; Jeanne d'Albret, and Henry IV of France";
str[26]="The prayer book of Mary, Queen of Scots. France, 15th century";
str[27]="The Grandes Chroniques de France. 15th century";
str[28]="The binding with the coat of arms of Pierre Seguier. Psaumes ou cantiques sur
les attributs de Dieu dediez
a monseigneur le chancelier
par M. de la Serre";
str[29]="A letter from King Henry III of France. 1579";
str[30]="A letter from Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France. 1573";
str[31]="A file on Voltaire kept in the Bastille. 18th century";
str[32]="A letter from Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France. 1573";
str[33]="Georges Simenon's preparatory material for his novel Le Train";
str[34]="Ordinarius from an monastery in Nuremberg.";
str[35]="A theoretical work in Greek and Arabic
from St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai of Egypt
13th - 14th century";
str[36]="An Old Believers' manuscript. 19th century";
str[37]="Modest Mussorgsky. The piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. 1874";
str[38]="Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Easter Festival. Overture. 1888";
str[39]="Franz Liszt. Les Annees De Pelerinage. 1830s- 1850s";
str[40]="Franz Haydn L'incontro improviso. 1777";
str[41]="Piotr Tchaikovsky. The Tempest. An orchetral fantasy for Shakespear's drama. 1873";
str[41]="A charter issued by Grand Prince Ivan Vasilyevich of Moscow (Ivan the Terrible)";
str[43]="A letter from Empress Catherine II to Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich";
str[44]="An autographed photograph of Fiodor Chaliapin. 3 September 1906";
str[45]="Anna Akhmatova. Summer Sonnet. 1958";
str[46]="A page from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's short story One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich carrying the author's dedication to Anna Akhmatova";
str[47]="";
str[48]="";
str[49]="";
var title = "Manuscripts in the National Library of Russia";
var cat = "/eng/coll/manuscripts/images/";