Collection items

A View of the Bridge under Langdale Pikes, Westmor...

Watercolour, View Created date: 1800-23

The artist William Green produced topographical views of the Lake District both as a teaching resource that could be cop...

Advertisement for Bowes Academy from The Times

Newspaper, Ephemera, Advertisement

Dating from 1817, this is an advertisement for Bowes Academy, the nightmarish school on which Charles Dickens based Doth...

Album of Baha’i calligraphy

Manuscript Created date: early 19th – early 20th century

An album of Baha’i calligraphy including childhood calligraphic exercises by Baha’u’llah and tablets by Baha’u’llah copi...

Album of images of Hindu deities

Manuscript, Drawing, Watercolour, Illustration Created date: early 19th century

This album is one of two volumes that contain botanical paintings, intricate line drawings and vibrant watercolours of H...

An Illustration of the Monastic History of St. Edm...

Book

Richard Yates was a clergyman, antiquary and native of Bury St Edmunds. His father had served as custodian of Bury’s Abb...

Banarasa-vilasa, Jain religious poetry

Manuscript Created date: 19th century

An anthology of Jain Digambara religious poetry. What is the manuscript? The Banārasī-vilāsa is a collection of philoso...

Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge intended Biographia Literaria to be a short preface to a collection of his poems, Sibylline Leav...

Broadside about the tread-mill at Brixton Prison

Broadside, Ephemera, Illustration, Image

This broadside features an illustration and description of a treadmill at Brixton Prison in London, built so that prison...

Buddhist texts and Ten Birth Tales

Paper folding book, Manuscript Created date: 1800-1870

The image shows a scene with horses and deer from Buddha’s last birth tale, Vessantara Jātaka, showing Prince Vessantara...

Coleridge's annotated copy of Shakespeare

Book, Manuscript annotation Created date: early 19th century [Coleridge's manuscript notes]

This remarkable copy of The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare contains extensive manuscript notes by the poet and critic Sam...

Coleridge's notes on Measure for Measure

Book, Duodecimo, Engraving, Illustration, Image, Manuscript annotation Created date: early 19th century [Coleridge's manuscript notes]

The poet and literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) regarded Measure for Measure as ‘the most painful’ or ‘...

Collection of rules for Buddhist monks

Manuscript Created date: 19th century

This palm leaf manuscript contains Bhikkhu Patimokkha and Bhikkhuni Patimokkha (rules to be obeyed in communities of mon...

Coloured illustrations of Buddhist heavens and hel...

Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Image Created date: 19th century

A folding book manuscript in 59 folds made in Upper Burma. It has tooled leather covers with paper labels dated Manadala...

Correspondence between Frances Burney and the publ...

Manuscript, Letter Created date: 1770‒1838

When Frances Burney (1752–1840) first published her novel Evelina, she did so in strictest secrecy, concealing both her...

Dastan-i Mirac

Manuscript Created date: late 18th–early 19th century

The Dastan- ı Miraç, is the story of the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) ascent to heaven. The text is recited in many ...