Early Modern

4 manuscripts

King James Bible 1611

Early ModernEnglish

The authorized English Bible printed by Robert Barker in 1611, the work of 47 scholars in six companies. Its cadences shaped Engli...

First Folio Shakespeare

Early ModernEnglish

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, published in 1623 by his friends Heminges and Condell. Without it, 18...

Rigveda Manuscripts

Early ModernSanskrit

The oldest surviving manuscripts of the Rigveda, the foundational hymns of Hinduism composed orally by around 1200 BCE but written...

Newton Principia First Edition

Early ModernLatin

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published on 5 July 1687 under the imprimatur of the Royal Society, laid out the law...