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- Rudolph Ackermann (1)
- Aldred, Provosot of Chester le Street [Old English gloss] (1)
- Antony Gormley and the British Library (1)
- anonymous (1)
- John Audubon (1)
- Cassandra Austen [illustrator] (1)
- Jane Austen (1)
- Abu Bakr [master illuminator], also known as Sandal (1)
- Baruch (scribe) (1)
- Basilius [artist] (1)
- Bede (1)
- Mosheh ben 'Ezra (author) (1)
- Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil (author) (1)
- Daṿid ben Mosheh Darshan (scribe) (1)
- Shemu'el ben Shemu'el ibn Musa (scribe) (1)
- Christoffel Beudeker (1)
- Billfrith the anchorite [golds and silversmith] (1)
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- Geoffrey Chaucer (3)
- Samuel Coleridge (1)
- William Combe (1)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1)
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- Charles Darwin (1)
- Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne [scribe and illustrator] (1)
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- Unknown (5)
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- Andreas Vesalius (1)
- Pietro Vesconte (1)
- Oscar Wilde (2)
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- Manuscript (59)
- Map (15)
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Admiral Lord Nelson’s Battle of Trafalgar Memorand...
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'Alice's Adventures Under Ground', the original ma...
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America: 1765 Tax stamps
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An die Musik by Schubert
Musical scoreThis manuscript shows an example of Franz Schubert’s song composition. His setting of verses by Franz von Schober dates ...
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Anglo-Saxon Mappa Mundi
MapThis map was probably created at Canterbury between 1025 and 1050, but is probably ultimately based on a model dating fr...
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Anne McLaren’s Notebook
NotebookDame Anne McLaren (1927 – 2007) was a developmental biologist who pioneered techniques that led to human in vitro fertil...
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Audubon's Birds of America
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Bad quarto of Hamlet, 1603, also known as the firs...
Book, QuartoThis is the earliest surviving printed version of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. There are only two copies of this b...
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Peopl...
Manuscript, Illuminated manuscriptBede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731. It tells the story of the conversion of the En...
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Bedford Hours
Manuscript, CodexThis magnificent manuscript was made in France and adapted for John, Duke of Bedford, and to celebrate his marriage to A...
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Beethoven's tuning fork
Tuning forkWe hold a number of unusual Beethoven-related items, including his laundry list, a set of his kitchen accounts and even ...
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Beowulf
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Brontë juvenilia: 'Blackwood's Young Men's Magazin...
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Canada: 1851 12d black
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