The Prayer Book of Claude de 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.
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Digital Facsimiles
Leonardo da Vinci and the Codex Huygens
Browse the Codex Huygens, a Renaissance manuscript for a treatise on painting closely related to Leonardo da Vinci.
The Black Hours
This digital facsimile displays every page of a striking Book of Hours painted on vellum that is stained black.
Degas: Drawings and Sketchbook
This presentation of drawings and a sketchbook by Degas from the Morgan's collections captures the range of the artist's draftsmanship and includes his most quintessential subjects.
The Morgan Gutenberg Bible Online
This presentation features every page of the Old Testament copy along with commentary on its history and significance.
The Red Book of Hatchlands in Surrey
Hatchlands is an estate in Surrey with a handsome brick manor notable for the interior decoration designed by Robert Adam.
The Red Book of Ferney Hall
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.
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
This digital facsimile provides reproductions of all pages from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves.
Manuscripts and Letters of Oscar Wilde
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.
Histoire Naturelle des Indes
The beautiful paintings and descriptions in the Drake Manuscript document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in the sixteenth century.
John Milton's Paradise Lost
Read the only surviving manuscript of the first book of Paradise Lost in its entirety and listen to selected excerpts of Milton's poems.
Jean de Brunhoff's Histoire de Babar Maquette
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.