Items listed on this page are normally on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library at St Pancras, London. You can find out more about selected items online. You can also check out opening times and get an overview of what the gallery contains.
Bindings
- 16th-century, English gold-tooled and painted brown calfskin
Davis 60 - 18th-century English gold tooled and painted white transparent vellum binding
Davis 210 - 19th-century English gold tooled white vellum
Davis 273 - 16th-century French gold tooled and onlaid binding
Davis 379 - 16th-century Swiss gold tooled and painted brown goatskin binding
Davis 417 - 17th-century German gold tooled white parchment binding
Davis 635 - 19th-century Spanish gold tooled, painted and onlaid binding
Davis 660 - 18th-century Italian gold tooled and sprinkled binding
Davis 859 - 18th-century gold tooled blue goatskin binding with gilt edges
Davis 162 - 20th-century English gold and black tooled and onlaid brown goatskin
Davis 301 - 18th-century Irish gold tooled and onlaid red goatskin binding
Davis 311 - 20th-century French gold, black and ink tooled binding
Davis 556 - 18th-century French gold tooled and onlaid red goatskin binding with gilt edges
Davis 561 - Rose Adler. Abstract
Davis 557 - 18th-century Mexican gold tooled red binding with gilt edges
Davis 655 - 16th-century German gold blocked and painted calfskin binding.
Davis 693 - 16th-century Italian gold tooled and sprinkled brown calfskin binding
Davis 722
Natural History Drawings
- One Million Charms of Empress Shotoku, plus pagoda
Or.78.a.11 & Or.81.c.31 - Shinsen heika zui, guide to flower arrangement. Kyoto 1698
ORB.30/3424 - The catalogue of the Korean Tripitaka. 1236 - 1251
15103.e.9 - Dharani in Uighur with Sanskrit gloss, 10th - 11th century
Or.12551A - Buddhist prayer sheet, woodblock print on paper. China, 10th century
Or.8210/P.5 - Letter from the Shizhuzhai, Rongbaozhai, Peking, 1952
Or.80.d.9 - Indulgentia' printed by (?) Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, 1454-55
IA.53 - Gutenberg Bible, Mainz, 1454 - 1455
C.9.d.3,4 - Leaf from the Guttenberg Bible, Mainz, 1454 - 1455
IC.56a - Psalterium, printed by J. Furst & P. Schoffer, Mainz, 1457
G.12216 - Biblia Latina, printed by (?) A. Pfister, Bamberg, not after 1461
C.9.d.6 - Bucheranzeige (advertisement), printed by A. Koberger, Nuremberg, 1480
IC.7195 - Satyrae, printed by Aldus Manutius, Venice 1501
C.4.g.10 - Aesop, Fables, printed by William Caxton. 1484
C.11.c.17
