British Library launches eBook Treasures

The British Library's remarkable 'eBook Treasures' series allows users to explore some of the British Library's most treasured manuscripts in detail, together with text, video and audio interpretation. Developed with Armadillo Systems, our eBook Treasures are viewable in full-screen high-definition, with realistic page-turning capabilities and, once downloaded, can be read offline. They can be read on the iPad, iPhone (3GS and 4) and iPod Touch (3rd and 4th generations). Additionally the series is now available as a Windows 8 app. It can be found in the Windows Store, under Books and Reference.

For more information about this series visit: www.ebooktreasures.org

Latest releases

The Lindisfarne Gospels is one of the most magnificent manuscripts of the early Middle Ages and was written and decorated around 700. To celebrate the opening of the Lindisfarne Gospels Durham exhibition we have now made the manuscript available as eBook Treasures facsimile editions. A highlights version is available as well as the complete manuscript and both contain commentary and audio on selected pages. The highlights version is free of charge from 1st July for 2 weeks (and £1.99 thereafter), and the complete version of over 500 pages is available for £3.49.

Full list of published titles

	The Lindisfarne Gospels (highlights versions) £1.99
	The Lindisfarne Gospels (complete version) £3.49
	The Holkham Bible £4.99
	Diogo Homem, The Queen Mary Atlas £2.99
	Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (complete version) £6.99
	The Bedford Hours (complete version) £8.99
	The Golden Haggadah (complete version) £4.99
	Jane Austen's History of England (complete version) £4.99
	Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Jashnagir & Sandal, Sultan Baybars' Qur'an (highlights version) £4.99
	William Blake's Notebook (complete version) £4.99
	Jean Mallard, Henry VIII's Psalter (complete version) £4.99
	Medieval Bestiary (highlights version) £4.99
	Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel (complete version) £6.99
	George Frideric Handel, Messiah (complete version) £6.99
	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musical Diary (complete version) £6.99
	William Shakespeare's First Folio (complete version) £8.99 Individual plays are also available for £1.99 each
	Gerardus Mercator's Atlas of Europe (complete version) £4.99
	Luttrell Psalter (complete version) £6.99
	William Tyndale, The New Testament (complete version) £8.99

How do I get them?

eBook Treasures are available for download worldwide* from the iBookstore

Our eBook Treasures series is now available as a Windows 8 app, find it in the Windows Store under Books and Reference.

Selected titles are also available for Kindle Fire.

eBook Treasures are created by the British Library in partnership with Armadillo Systems.

*eBookTreasures are available in all iBookStore supported territories