Online Illustrated Manuscripts Gallery

[tabletguy]

The British Library has an online "Turning the Pages" gallery of illustrated books, etc

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

Here's a sampling from the page above:

• SKETCHES BY LEONARDO (from his personal notebook)
• THE ORIGINAL ALICE Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll 
• MOZART'S MUSICAL DIARY With 75 audio excerpts 

 

[tomos]

lovely stuff

so far I've looked at a beautiful early Koran,
first atlas of Europe and
early writing of Jane Austen (that I just last week read - "Catharine" Oxford classics)