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Virtual books

The video shows how you can use our award-winning 'Turning the Pages™' software to leaf through our great books and magnify the details. Choose the volume you'd like to see from the lists below.

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Handel’s Messiah

From the draft score of the composer’s most famous work

Leonardo da Vinci selection

A selection of his sketches (29 pages)

Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll

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Medieval Bestiary

Wonderful drawings of creatures, both real and imagined

Bedford Hours

15th-century treasure owned by Henry V’s brother, the Regent of France

Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings

Dating from the reign of Edward I and almost five metres long

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