Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Digital Facsimiles

The Black Hours

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

Degas Sketchbook

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

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.

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.