Collection items

Friendship album of Gervasius Fabricius zu Kleshei...

Friendship album, Book, Quarto, Manuscript, Illustration, Image Created date: 1595–1637

These are illustrations from the friendship album of the student Gervasius Fabricius zu Klesheim of Salzburg, and others...

Poems by Shakespeare, Donne and others in I. A.'s...

Manuscript, Book, Duodecimo, Commonplace book Created date: 17th century

This handwritten collection of poems and prose contains William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2, as well as works by other Elizab...

The Art of Physiognomy by Thomas Hill

Book, Octavo, Woodcut, Illustration, Image

A Pleasant History (1613) is Thomas Hill’s treatise on the art of physiognomy, which is founded on the belief that the f...

View of Verona in Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, Image

This image shows a bird’s-eye view of the city of Verona, in what is now Northern Italy. It illustrates some of the hist...

Works by John Donne and Ben Jonson in the Newcastl...

Manuscript, Drawing, Illustration, Image Created date: 17th century

This handwritten volume, known as the Newcastle Manuscript, is an anthology of verse and prose made for Sir William Cave...