Digital Facsimiles

Browse the Codex Huygens, a Renaissance manuscript for a treatise on painting closely related to Leonardo da Vinci.

Beatrix Potter's stories can be found in the manuscript picture letters she wrote to children of friends and family members.

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

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Sketchbook, 1880 and after Twenty-one drawings in graphite with some charcoal and blue chalk, Thaw Collection, 2004.35

This presentation features every page of the Old Testament copy along with commentary on its history and significance.

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.

Hatchlands is an estate in Surrey with a handsome brick manor notable for the interior decoration designed by Robert Adam.

This digital facsimile provides reproductions of all pages from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves.

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.

The beautiful paintings and descriptions in the Drake Manuscript document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in the sixteenth century.

Read the only surviving manuscript of the first book of Paradise Lost in its entirety and listen to selected excerpts of Milton's poems.

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.