Digital Facsimiles

The Morgan Library & Museum holds the largest collection of literary manuscripts by Anne Brontë (1820–1849), all of which are presented here.

John Ruskin, 1819–1900, Early drawing book of sketches, 1974.49:231.

Pier Leone Ghezzi, 1674-1755, Album of 64 Caricatures, 1978.27.

The manuscript of Jane Austen's Lady Susan is the only surviving complete draft of any of her novels.

In this unusual object, Taylor drew over text and images in a book on Florentine Renaissance painting.

Berry Apocalypse, Paris, France, ca. 1415, MS M.133

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) kept this pocket-sized memorandum book, filling it with notes distilled from his reading.

In the fall of 1931, Virginia Woolf used these pages to work on a draft of what would eventually become the essay "A Letter to a Young Poet."

Gospel Book (Arenberg Gospels), Canterbury, England, 1000–1020.

Browse this manuscript catalogue of the paintings and drawings of the eighteenth-century collector Jean de Jullienne (1686–1766).

School of Annibale Carracci (1560–1609), 1964.9.

Italian School, mid to late 16th century, PML 5675.