Digital Facsimiles

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.

Browse the entire manuscript of the Lindau Gospels, one of the great masterpieces from the Morgan's collection.

Browse The Rose Haggadah, illuminated by contemporary artist Barbara Wolff, using the techniques of medieval manuscript illumination.

View images with descriptions from the Morgan's Picture Bible illustrated in thirteenth-century France.

The Prayer Book of Claude de France is a tiny, jewel-like manuscript that was made for Claude (1499–1524) around 1517, the year she was crowned queen of France.

Browse the Codex Huygens, a Renaissance manuscript for a treatise on painting closely related to Leonardo da Vinci.

Beatrix Potter's stories can be found in the manuscript picture letters she wrote to children of friends and family members.

This digital facsimile displays every page of a striking Book of Hours painted on vellum that is stained black.

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Sketchbook, 1880 and after Twenty-one drawings in graphite with some charcoal and blue chalk, Thaw Collection, 2004.35

This presentation features every page of the Old Testament copy along with commentary on its history and significance.

Humphry Repton prepared this Red Book for Samuel Phipps of Lincoln's Inn, a prosperous attorney, who had purchased the Ferney Hall estate around 1787.

Hatchlands is an estate in Surrey with a handsome brick manor notable for the interior decoration designed by Robert Adam.

This digital facsimile provides reproductions of all pages from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves.

Browse all the items in a bound collection of Oscar Wilde's letters and manuscripts, the whereabouts of which has been unknown to scholars for over half a century.

The beautiful paintings and descriptions in the Drake Manuscript document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in the sixteenth century.

Read the only surviving manuscript of the first book of Paradise Lost in its entirety and listen to selected excerpts of Milton's poems.

This digital facsimile presents every page of a small, delicate maquette that Jean de Brunhoff created in 1930 or 1931 as he drafted the first book in the Babar series.

This digital facsimile features the celebrated fifteenth-century manuscript Le Livre de la chasse and other images depicting the noble hunt.

Read commentary on twenty-seven images from the Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne.

Browse the Hours of Henry VIII and the Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne.