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Recent additions to virtual books

Use our 'Turning the Pages™' system to view our great books and magnify the details. These are the most recent additions. Just choose the one you'd like to see.

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

Audubon's The Birds of America

Highlights of the famous 'double elephant folio'

Capt. R.F. Scott's Diary

Extracts from the 1911 Antarctic expedition

Handel’s Messiah

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

My Ladye Nevells Booke

Complete manuscript of William Byrd’s keyboard music

My Ladye Nevells Booke selections

From the manuscript of William Byrd’s keyboard music

Diamond Sutra

The oldest printed ‘book’, made in China in 868

Codex Sinaiticus

Extracts from a 1,600-year-old-Bible courtesy of the Partners of the Codex Sinaiticus Project

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