Digital Facsimiles

Paul Cézanne Sketchbook

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

Pirro Ligorio’s Life of Hippolytus

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

Da Costa Hours

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

Contes de ma mère l'Oye

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

The Berthold Sacramentary

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

Il Fior di Battaglia: A Renaissance Fighting Manual

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).

Coptic Bindings

The Copts were native Egyptians who played an important role in the history of Christianity. Browse this essential collection of Coptic bookbindings.

Hours of Pierre de Bosredont

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

Hubert Robert's Roman Sketchbook

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.

Lindau Gospels

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

Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards

The tarot cards at the Morgan were probably created by Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti-Sforza family, and constitute one of the most complete decks to survive from the fifteenth century.

The Rose Haggadah

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