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

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

Browse this gospel book made in the eleventh century in Cologne, Germany.

Bestiary (Dicta Chrysostomi), in Latin, Austria, Göttweig, ca. 1140–50, MS M.832

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

Jacques de Longuyon, fl. 1290–1312, Les voeux du paon, Belgium, probably Tournai, ca. 1350, MS G.24

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

This 22-page manuscript includes the texts of eight poems that Anne Brontë composed in 1842 and 1843.

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).

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.