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A Rocket Cat?
A Penn special-collections post on the bizarre rocket cat and rocket bird illustrations in a 16th-century artillery manu…
Brecon Project
A digital humanities study of medieval manuscript witnesses, with transcripts, a stemma, string-length graphs, similarit…
Cambridge Digital Library
Cambridge University Library's digital collections, with high-resolution scans of treasures like Isaac Newton's papers,…
Casebooks
Cambridge's digital edition of the casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 17th-century astrologer-physicians, wit…
Codex Atlanticus
The Biblioteca Ambrosiana's fully digitized Codex Atlanticus, the largest collection of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, f…
Cooking in the Archives
A project that finds, transcribes, and cooks recipes from English manuscripts written between 1600 and 1800 in a modern…
Darwin's Children Drew All Over On the Origin of Species
A short history piece on how Darwin's kids filled the back of his manuscript pages with doodles of pink birds and carrot…
Digital Florentine Codex
The Getty's digital edition of the Florentine Codex lets you page through all twelve books of the illustrated 16th-centu…
Erbario (LJS 419)
A fully digitized Italian illustrated herbal manuscript from the Penn Libraries, with every page of hand-painted plants…
Eton College Collections
Online access to Eton College's art, manuscripts, rare books and natural history specimens, with searchable catalogues a…
Frankenstein Variorum
A digital variorum edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that lets you compare the 1818, 1823 and 1831 texts and manusc…
Gallica
The French National Library's digital archive of historical books, manuscripts, maps, and photographs spanning centuries…
Isaac Newton's Works
The Newton Project's index of Newton's writings, from alchemy and mathematics to religion and science, with transcriptio…
Manuscript Miniatures
A searchable collection of medieval manuscript miniatures, effigies and brasses showing knights, armour and weapons, tag…
Medieval Writing
An introduction to medieval writing, covering the origins of written culture, paleography, the history of scripts and li…
Roger Pearse
A long-running blog on antiquity and the early Church Fathers, covering newly translated texts, manuscript discoveries,…
The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript
Turn the pages of L.M. Montgomery's handwritten manuscript of Anne of Green Gables and see her notes, edits and rewrites…
The British Library
The UK's national library, with online exhibitions and digitized treasures spanning medieval manuscripts to modern sound…
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton
Indiana University's digital edition of Newton's alchemical manuscripts, with transcriptions, symbol tables and tools fo…
The Colours of the Middle Ages
How were colours made in the Middle Ages? This exhibit explains medieval pigments and dyes from plants, animals and mine…
The Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
The Leon Levy digital library of the Dead Sea Scrolls, offering zoomable high-resolution images of the ancient manuscrip…
The Key of Hell: an Eighteenth-Century Sorcery Manual
Historian Benjamin Breen pores over the eerie hand-painted illustrations of an 18th-century sorcery manual and tries to…
The Medieval Bestiary
A catalog of real and mythical animals as described in medieval manuscripts, with manuscript illustrations and symbolic…
The Names of All Manner of Hounds
A name generator drawing on the 1,065 dog names recorded in a fifteenth-century manuscript, so your pup can answer to a…
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