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 opening times and get an overview of what the gallery contains.
- 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