- Turning the Pages
Online gallery of rare and antique volumes from the British Library. View detailed, magnified multimedia reproductions of Jane Austen's manuscripts, Lewis Carroll's illustrations for the original Alice in Wonderland, sketches by Leonardo, and other book treasures.
www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
- Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Online exhibit of the calendar images from the classic medieval book of hours.
humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/heures.html
- Vatican Exhibit: Rome Reborn
The Library of Congress presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious books, manuscripts, and maps.
www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/Vatican.exhibit.html
- Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania (6)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Exhibits/Special_Collections__University_of_Pennsylvania
- Special Collections, University of Virginia@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Special_Collections/Exhibits
- Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modernist Writers and the Orient
Exhibit of books and manuscripts from 19th and 20th century American modernists influenced by the Orient.
www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/orient/intro.htm
- Children's Literature: Chiefly from the Nineteenth Century
Archived exhibit of children's books from the nineteenth century, including primers, alphabet books, and storybooks.
www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/kidlit/kidlit/kidlit.html
- English Emblem Book Project, The
Images of engravings, wood blocks, and etchings from emblem books, presented for the study of both daily and intellectual life in the 16th and 17th centuries.
emblem.libraries.psu.edu
- Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era
Exhibit of covers and artwork from the 1920s and 1930s, emphasizing the post-1917 aesthetic quality, linguistic variety, and thematic diversity.
digital.library.mcgill.ca/russian/toc.htm
- Irish Script On Screen - Meamram P?ip?ar R?omhaire
Creating digital images of Irish manuscripts to provide exposure to Ireland's cultural heritage and contribute to the conservation of these valuable books and documents.
www.isos.dcu.ie
- Universal Library: Antique Books
Carnegie Mellon's project presents full scans of antique and rare books.
www.antiquebooks.net
- Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
Online version of Antonio Lafreri's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, a collection of engravings of Rome and Roman antiquities printed in the mid-1570s. From The University of Chicago Library.
speculum.lib.uchicago.edu
- Palaeography
Tutorial on how to read handwriting found in documents from 1500-1800. From The National Archives.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography
- Alciato's Book of Emblems
Online edition of the 1531 collection of Latin emblem poems.
www.mun.ca/alciato
- The Mapas Project
Collection of colonial Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts that show the territories or landscapes of New Spain's indigenous communities. From the University of Oregon.
mapas.uoregon.edu
- Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
Presents Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with selected treasures from The Newberry Library.
www.nd.edu:80/~italnet/Dante
- Gutenberg and Beyond: Books, Libraries, and Changing Technology
Focuses on the role of changing technology in the history of books and libraries.
gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/bkex96.htm
- Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century
Exhibit of color illustrated books from the Special Collections of the University of Delaware Library.
www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/color
- John Hay Library - Brown University@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Brown_University/Libraries_and_Museums
- 4,000 Years of Miniature Books
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Collection includes thumb bibles, mini libraries, almanacs and calendars, and volumes from the Near and Far East.
www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/miniatures
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