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A Kneeling Man Seen from Behind. Verso: Farm Buildings in an Italian Landscape and a Study of a Horse's Leg

Théodore Géricault

1791-1824

ca. 1818

2017.313

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

The Colosseum of Rome

Samuel Palmer

1805-1881

2009.235

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

First Stage of Cruelty

William Hogarth

1697-1764

1750

III, 32b

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

[Biblia Latina].

PML 79696

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Virginia Woolf’s “Letter to a Young Poet”

In the fall of 1931, Virginia Woolf used these pages to work on a draft of what would eventually become the essay "A Letter to a Young Poet."

Digital Facsimile

Encomium on the four Bodiless Beasts.

Created

Ptepouhar, Egypt, 892-893.

Accession number

MS M.612

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Miscellany.

Created

Egypt, between Apr. 14, 891 and Aug. 29, 893.

Accession number

MS M.578

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Sir Francis Drake revived. Who is or may be a pattern to stirre up all heroicke and active spirits of these times, to benefit their countrey and eternize their names by like noble attempts. Being a summary and true relation of foure severall voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies. Viz. His dangerons [!] adventuring for gold and silver with the gaining thereof. And the surprizing of Nombre de Dios by himselfe and two and fifty men. His encompassing the world. His voyage made with Christopher Carleill, Martin Frobusher, Francis Knollis, and others. Their taking the townes of Saint Jago, Sancto Domingo, Carthagena and Saint Augustine. His last voyage (in which he dyed) being accompanied with Sir John Hawkins, Sir Thomas Baskerfield, Sir Nicholas Clifford, with others. His manner of buriall. Collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake; Master Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher, preachers; and the notes of divers other gentlemen (who went in the said voyages) carefully compared together.

Printed at London For Nicholas Bourne, 1653.

PML 17047

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

A treatise and discovrse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke : also a treatise on the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, aswell of the forrest, as the puralley / collected and gathered together, aswell out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient authors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster, by Iohn Manwood.

Manwood, John, -1610.

London : Printed by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1598.

PML 38678

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Lib[er] cronicarum : cu[m] figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mu[n]di.

Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514.

PML 180

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books