Digital Facsimiles

Browse this album of Persian and Mughal paintings begun by Husain Khān Shāmlū, governor of Herat (r. 1598–1618).

Antonio Galli Bibiena, 1697-1774, Drawings for Architectural Inventions Including Interiors of Churches and Theaters and Views of Gardens, 18th century, 1982.75:97 (1-101).

Friedrich Preller (1804–1878), Sketchbook, 1864, Thaw Collection, 2003.44.

Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321, Divina commedia, Florence, Italy, 1345–1355, MS M.676.

This manuscript in William Blake's hand is the sole source for seven of his poems, including “Auguries of Innocence.”

Explore this late-medieval book produced entirely from woodcuts.

Explore this late-medieval book produced entirely from woodcuts.

Browse this ode to the basketball and football players of Overtown from the early 1980s by artist Purvis Young (1943–2010).

Browse the earliest known diary kept by the American artist Stuart Davis (1892–1964).

Explore this late-medieval book produced entirely from woodcuts.

This journal is an account of a weeklong journey that Dorothy and William Wordsworth took around Ullswater, in the English Lake District, in early November 1805.

Browse this compendium of four late medieval chronicles illustrated in Naples, Italy, shortly after 1498.

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.

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Autograph manuscript. MA 628.

Jacques Louis David (1748–1825), Roman Album no. 8, 1998.1

Edward Lear (1812–1888). Illustrated nonsense alphabet, ca. 1859. MA 2946.

This copy of Frankenstein (PML 16799) contains extensive additions and emendations by Mary Shelley.

The original manuscript of A Christmas Carol reveals Dickens's method of composition, allowing us to see the author at work.

Gherardo Cibo (1512–1600), Sketchbook, 1969.16

William Morris (1834–1896), Love is enough, or The freeing of Pharamond : a morality, London : Ellis & White, 1873, PML 77075

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1552 or 3–1608), Album, 1964.1

This fourteenth-century model book consists of eight parchment bifolios containing a total of more than seventy different drawings.

This sketchbook of architectural drawings is one of the most significant documents of buildings in early sixteenth-century Rome.

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.

Explore he wondrous creatures of this bestiary made in England, ca. 1325–1350.

Browse the earliest surviving manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the text of which forms the basis for the novel’s first printed edition.

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

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

Sacramentary, use of Sant’Apollonaire in Classe, in Latin, Northeastern Italy, perhaps the Abbey of St. Fonte Avellana, ca. 1050.

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.