Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol
The original manuscript of A Christmas Carol reveals Dickens's method of composition, allowing us to see the author at work.
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Digital Facsimiles
Sketchbook by Gherardo Cibo
Gherardo Cibo (1512–1600), Sketchbook, 1969.16
Love is Enough
William Morris (1834–1896), Love is enough, or The freeing of Pharamond : a morality, London : Ellis & White, 1873, PML 77075
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino Album
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1552 or 3–1608), Album, 1964.1
Model book
This fourteenth-century model book consists of eight parchment bifolios containing a total of more than seventy different drawings.
Codex Mellon
This sketchbook of architectural drawings is one of the most significant documents of buildings in early sixteenth-century Rome.
Canticum canticorum [Blockbook] (PML 21990)
Explore this late-medieval book produced entirely from woodcuts.
Livre des merveilles du monde (Marvels of the World)
This manuscript contains numerous images of the real and imaginary lands that made up the medieval world.
Worksop Bestiary
Explore he wondrous creatures of this bestiary made in England, ca. 1185.
Fountains Abbey Bestiary
Explore he wondrous creatures of this bestiary made in England, ca. 1325–1350.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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.
Edme Bouchardon's Vade Mecum
Browse drawings made by Edme Bouchardon in eighteenth-century Rome.