Digital Facsimiles

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

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

Brontë’s personal letters, a selection of which is presented here, reveal the doubt, pain, hope, and confidence she voiced before emerging as one of the world’s most successful novelists.

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).

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

Browse images from the prefatory cycle of one of the earliest illustrated biographies of St. Edmund.

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.

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

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.

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

View images with descriptions from the Morgan's Picture Bible illustrated in thirteenth-century 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.