Topic: Turning The Pages

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Online today courtesy of the British Library:

SKETCHES BY LEONARDO See the genius's personal notebook  

MOZART'S MUSICAL DIARY With 75 audio excerpts  

THE ORIGINAL ALICE Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll  
 
MASTERPIECE OF THE RENAISSANCE Beautiful images from the Sforza Hours  

JANE AUSTEN'S EARLY WORK The History of England in her own hand  

FIRST ATLAS OF EUROPE Compiled by Mercator in the 1570s  
 
OUTSTANDING 15TH-CENTURY CHURCH BOOK The wonderful, and weighty, Sherborne Missal  

CLASSIC OF BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION Elizabeth Blackwell's remarkable Herbal  

BAYBARS' MAGNIFICENT QUR'AN Epitome of sumptuous Arabic calligraphy
  
PINNACLE OF ANGLO-SAXON ART The priceless Lindisfarne Gospels  

THE OLDEST PRINTED 'BOOK' View the Diamond Sutra, printed in China in 868  

GLIMPSES OF MEDIEVAL LIFE Selections from the famous Luttrell Psalter  
  
FLEMISH MASTERS IN MINIATURE The superb so-called 'Golf Book'

GLORIOUS HEBREW PRAYER BOOK The lavishly illustrated Golden Haggadah  

A LANDMARK IN MEDICAL HISTORY Vesalius's stunning 16th century anatomy
  
 
Turning the Pages? uses the Shockwave plug-in, which can be downloaded from the Macromedia website, to simulate the action of turning the pages of a real book. The volumes may not open if you block popups on your computer.


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