Digital Facsimiles

Canticum canticorum [Blockbook] (PML 21990)

Explore this late-medieval book produced entirely from woodcuts.

This manuscript contains numerous images of the real and imaginary lands that made up the medieval world.

Explore he wondrous creatures of this bestiary made in England, ca. 1185.

Browse drawings made by Edme Bouchardon in eighteenth-century Rome.

Browse this gospel book made in England, ca. 1060, for Judith of Flanders.

Browse this gospel book made in England, between 1051 and 1064, for Judith of Flanders.

Browse this gospel book made in the eleventh century in Cologne, Germany.

Cézanne used this plain, linen-bound sketchbook for roughly a decade (1875–85) at a time when he was particularly engaged with drawing.

This manuscript contains sixteen autograph drawings by the painter, architect, and antiquarian Pirro Ligorio (1513–1583).

Browse every page of the Da Costa Hours, illuminated by Flemish painter Simon Bening, ca. 1515.

This is the original manuscript of the Tales of Mother Goose, attributed to Charles Perrault (1628–1702).

Browse the entire Berthold Sacramentary, commissioned by Berthold of Weingarten, who was abbot from 1200 to 1232.