Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol
The original manuscript of A Christmas Carol reveals Dickens's method of composition, allowing us to see the author at work.
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Mary Shelley’s Annotated Frankenstein
This copy of Frankenstein (PML 16799) contains extensive additions and emendations by Mary Shelley.
Model book
This fourteenth-century model book consists of eight parchment bifolios containing a total of more than seventy different drawings.
Codex Mellon
This sketchbook of architectural drawings is one of the most significant documents of buildings in early sixteenth-century Rome.
Canticum canticorum [Blockbook] (PML 21990)
Explore this late-medieval book produced entirely from woodcuts.
Livre des merveilles du monde (Marvels of the World)
This manuscript contains numerous images of the real and imaginary lands that made up the medieval world.
Worksop Bestiary
Explore he wondrous creatures of this bestiary made in England, ca. 1185.
Edme Bouchardon's Vade Mecum
Browse drawings made by Edme Bouchardon in eighteenth-century Rome.
Gospels of Judith of Flanders (MS M.709)
Browse this gospel book made in England, ca. 1060, for Judith of Flanders.