Renaissance

The first major book printed in Europe with movable metal type, completed in Mainz around 1455 by Johannes Gutenberg in an edition...

A 240 page codex written in an unknown script that has defeated every cryptographer since its modern discovery in 1912 by Wilfrid ...

One of the greatest Flemish illuminated manuscripts, a breviary completed around 1515 with miniatures associated with Gerard Horen...

The first printed New Testament in English, translated by William Tyndale and printed at Worms in 1526 in pocket size for smugglin...

The first complete printed Bible in English, translated and published by Miles Coverdale in Antwerp in 1535. Working from German a...

The Bible of Shakespeare and the Pilgrims, printed in Geneva in 1560 by English exiles with verse numbers, italics for supplied wo...

An extraordinary book of hours of around 1455 written in silver and gold on vellum stained a deep blue-black with iron gall ink. A...

The most opulent manuscript of the Italian Renaissance, a two volume Bible made for Borso d'Este, duke of Ferrara, between 1455 an...

An Aztec pictorial manuscript commissioned around 1541 for the Spanish viceroy, recording the tribute owed by conquered provinces ...

Twelve books of bilingual Nahuatl and Spanish text and 2,000 illustrations compiled between 1545 and 1590 by the friar Bernardino ...

The finest surviving pre-conquest Mexican religious manuscript, a screenfold of 76 deerskin pages painted before 1521 with the rit...

Leonardo da Vinci's scientific notebook of 1506 to 1510, 18 double sheets of mirror writing on water, geology, astronomy, and the ...

The largest bound collection of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and writings, 1,119 leaves covering roughly 1478 to 1519. Assembled b...