Virtual Books at THe British Library:
"Use the award-winning 'Turning the Pages™' software to leaf through some of The British Library's great books and magnify the details. Choose the volume you'd like to see from the lists below."
Vesalius's stunning 16th-century anatomy treatise
Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll
Epitome of sumptuous Arabic calligraphy
Commissioned by Emperor Iyasu in around 1700
Sketches and poems, including 'The Tyger'
Extracts from the 1911 Antarctic expedition
Elizabeth Blackwell's remarkable Herbal
Extracts from a 1,600-year-old-Bible courtesy of the Partners of the Codex Sinaiticus Project
The oldest printed ‘book’, made in China in 868
Country houses and magnificent gardens
Compiled by Mercator in the 1570s
The superb so-called 'Golf Book'
Selections from the famous Luttrell Psalter
The lavishly illustrated Golden Haggadah
From the draft score of the composer’s most famous work
Lavish production of 1540, with Henry’s own notes
The impeachmnent of Warren Hastings
'The History of England' in her own hand
Complete manuscript of notes and drawings (565 pages)
A selection of his sketches (29 pages)
Survivor of 15th-century Jewish culture
Beautiful images from the Sforza Hours
The composer's own notes, from 1784 until his death
Complete manuscript of William Byrd’s keyboard music
From the manuscript of William Byrd’s keyboard music
The wonderful, and weighty, Sherborne Missal
The priceless Lindisfarne Gospels
India's great epic in 17th-century paintings
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