


Sir Walter Raleigh's notes

First English dictionary

Letter about Guy Fawkes

Gunpowder Plot conspirators

Shakespeare's King Lear

The Globe Theatre

King James Bible

Surgeons' tools

Chinese globe

Shakespeare's First Folio

Lotus Sutra

Witch hunting

English Civil War scenes

Agreement of the People

Execution of Charles I

Charles I's executioner

Early A - Z of London

Advert for a quack doctor

Oliver Cromwell as the Devil

A cure for the Plague

Robert Hooke, Micrographia

Great Fire of London map

Great Fire of London

Wren's plans after the fire

Theatrical figures

Games and pastimes

Habeas Corpus Act

Map of the moon

A London Rhinoceros

Henry Purcell

Locke's Two Treatises

East India Company

Account of a shipwreck

Map of South America
This lavishly decorated manuscript of the eighth chapter of the 'Lotus Sutra', an ancient Buddhist text, is written in gold on indigo-dyed paper. Buddhism was founded in the fifth century BC, and taught its followers about the path to Enlightenment.
Shelfmark: Oriental MS 13926