Digital Facsimiles

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.

Brontë’s personal letters, a selection of which is presented here, reveal the doubt, pain, hope, and confidence she voiced before emerging as one of the world’s most successful novelists.

This manuscript, along with two others, comprise the earliest illuminated copies of Fiore dei Liberi’s treatise on fencing and martial arts entitled Fior di battaglia (The Flower of Battle).

Browse all pages in a digital facsimile of this highly personal fifteenth-century Book of Hours.

Browse images from the prefatory cycle of one of the earliest illustrated biographies of St. Edmund.

Explore one of only two surviving intact sketchbooks by the most famous French landscape painter of the eighteenth century, Hubert Robert (1733–1808), who spent eleven years in Rome.