PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE.
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
BYRON: MANFRED, 1816-17.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
POE: ULALUME, 1847.
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962).
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLE
Medieval astronomical charts, artwork
Medieval maps, artwork
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828).
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
POUND: PISAN CANTOS.
TURKISH MINIATURE, 1330.
1477 edition of the Grandes Chroniques de France
GEORGE ELIOT MANUSCRIPT.
From a page in the manuscript of Madame Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's handwriting
ANGLO SAXON CHRONICLE
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
SCARLET LETTER, 1850.
Diana and Endymion
Medina mosque enclosure, illustration
The floating bridge of dreams.
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
The flower girl and the undertaker, 19th C illustration
GOGOL: DEAD SOULS.
TURKEY: HEROES, 1330.
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE.
CLAUDINE EN M NAGE, 1902.
Curing of a hemiplegic.
Illumination depicting the Story of Saints Anthony and Paul the Hermit from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
JANE FRANKLIN MECOM
17th Century manuscript front page
Edmond Rostand.
Illustration by Alphonse Mucha from "Rama" a poem in three acts by Paul Verola. ca.1898. Mucha (1860 1939). was a Czech Art Nouveau painter
W.H. AUDEN: POEMS, 1930.
After the illustration by Florence Anderson entitled Boadicea and the Druid, from the poem Boadicea by William Cowper
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896).
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892).
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Froissart presenting his book of love poems to Richard II in 1395
Illumination depicting the annunciation from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the nativity from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the flight into Egypt from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the deliverance of Barabbas from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the darkness at the Crucifixion from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the descent from the cross from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the Lamentation from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the Court of Heaven from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the Story of Saint Bruno and the Grande Chartreuse from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting Saint George from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting Saint Eustace from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting Saint Nicholas from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting Saint Ursula from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting Saint Charlemagne from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting Duc de Berry in Prayer from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting Duc de Berry on a Journey from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Funeral of Anne of Brittany.
SAND: 'ANDRE' MANUSCRIPT.
CHAUCER: THE WIFE OF BATH
MIDDLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT.
Republican collection of poetry.
Mary Howitt.
DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
Penny Readings.
The chimney sweep
The Flateyjarbok.
Coventry Patmore.
SPENSER: FAERIE QUEENE.
DOMESDAY BOOK, 1086.
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917).
HARTMANN: PHILOSOPHIE.
Japan
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE
The Dauphin Charles reenters Paris with 2,000 men-at-arms, and addresses the crowd at Les Halles.
Philippe Auguste bringing Ferrand Portugal, Count of Flanders, and Renaud, Count of Boulogne, made prisoner.
John II.
BEOWULF, 1000 A.D.
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
WHITTIER: SNOW-BOUND
The distressed poet.
PROUST: REMEMBRANCE.
Boris Pasternak.
Arrival of Charles VII in the Bastille in 1418.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
RONSARD: LA FRANCIADE, 1572.
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH
Grimani Breviary.
14th century. Armenian Evangelical manuscript. by sarkis pitsak 1320. The arrest of Jesus
14th century. Armenian Evangelical manuscript. the resurrection of Lazarus
14th century. Armenian Evangelical manuscript. The Virgin Mary and infant Jesus
EUCLID: ELEMENTS.
SONG OF ROLAND MANUSCRIP
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
MYSTERY PLAY, 15th CENTURY.
Pygmalion, 14th century illustration
Pygmalion, 15th century illustration
Scenes of daily life in France in the middle ages.
Vie de saint Denis, Gilles de Pontoise donates a manuscript to Philippe V.
Manuscript of the Symphony No. 31, known as the Paris Symphony, by Mozart.
Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
The Children of the Poor (Les Enfants Pauvres) - The Ragged Babes That Weep.
Henry V 1613
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Dead, by Rudyard Kipling
Francesco Petrarca.
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
JOHANN STRAUSS (1825-1899).
MILTON: PARADISE LOST.
The manuscript book of prayers.
Agricultural labourers.
PERSIA: CALLIGRAPHY.
Robert Burns.
Codex Zouche-Nuttall or Codex Tonindeye is an accordion-folded pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography.
William Shakespeare
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript showing Leo I(Levon). I. the fifth lord of Armenian Cilicia. In the 12th century. he learned to exploit the open. yet restrained. hostilities between the Byzantine Empire and the Crusader principalities of Edessa
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript showing a canonical concordance. 14th century
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript. 14th century
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript showing the transfiguration of Christ. 14th century
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript. 13th century
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript showing the visitation of Mary Magdalena to Mary mother of Christ
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript showing a table of Homilies. 13th century. A homily is a commentary that follows a reading of scripture
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript showing the Feast of Cana. the Bible story of the Marriage at Cana. a wedding banquet at which Jesus converts water to wine. 13th century
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript describing the Mother Armenia (mother of Yerevan). a female personification of Armenia. . 14th century
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript showing a canonical concordance. 13th century
LANGLAND: MANUSCRIPT, c1375.
LANGLAND: PIERS PLOWMAN.
CANTERBURY CODEX AUREUS
ORESTES, 1st CENTURY A.D.
FURY SAID TO A MOUSE, 1866.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
UNICORN, 12th CENTURY.
ENGLAND: FOREST CHARTER.
FRANKLIN: ALPHABET.
Chanson de geste, historical illustration
Pittacus of Mytilene, Greek general
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Fragment of a copy of the Evangelists in Latin, Anglo-Saxon Manuscript of the 10th century, with illuminated initial letter, Illustration from John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. I from the earliest period to the reign of Edward the Fourth
RONSARD: ODES, 1550.
RONSARD: EPITHALAME, 1549.
Part of the 12th Century Winchester Bible
HIPPOCRATIC OATH.
10th Century picture of a Bulgarian Route from an ancient Slavonian manuscript
Illuminated page, with bordering, after the Froissart M
The Emperor Lothair, from the Gospels of Lothair.
RONSARD: WORKS, 1584.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein