PERCY BYSSHE SHELLE
POE: ULALUME, 1847.
POUND: PISAN CANTOS.
BYRON: MANFRED, 1816-17.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE.
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962).
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
TURKISH MINIATURE, 1330.
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
Medieval astronomical charts, artwork
Medieval maps, artwork
DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
PROUST: REMEMBRANCE.
From a page in the manuscript of Madame Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's handwriting
TURKEY: HEROES, 1330.
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828).
WAGNER: SIEGFRIED, 1857.
WAGNER: MANUSCRIPT, 1866.
NUT BROWN MAID, c1503.
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892).
EDUARD MOERIKE (1804-1875).
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROLFE
NOAH WEBSTER (1758-1843).
COPTIC MANUSCRIPT, 893 AD.
KORAN, 8th CENTURY.
PENTATEUCH MANUSCRIPT.
MYSTERY PLAY, 15th CENTURY.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Tiberius Psalter
MEISTERGESANG, 16th CENTURY.
VIVALDI MANUSCRIPT.
The chimney sweep
RONSARD: LA FRANCIADE, 1572.
ST. MATTHEW GOSPEL.
SYRIAC MANUSCRIPT.
KORAN, 14th CENTURY.
KORAN, 10th CENTURY.
MEDIEVAL KORAN.
MEDIEVAL KORAN
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU
FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810-1849).
THEODORE ROOSEVEL
CLAUDINE EN M NAGE, 1902.
MILTON: PARADISE LOST.
Medina mosque enclosure, illustration
GEORGE ELIOT MANUSCRIPT.
SPENSER: FAERIE QUEENE.
The floating bridge of dreams.
James Beattie (1735-1803)
Duel 1925
King Lear 1604
After the illustration by Florence Anderson entitled Boadicea and the Druid, from the poem Boadicea by William Cowper
Illustration on the theme of war from, Poems of pleasure By Ella Wheeler Wilcox, illustration by Dudley tenant 1920
DANTE: DIVINE COMEDY.
EUCLID: LATIN MANUSCRIPT.
RONSARD: WORKS, 1584.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
The Emperor Lothair, from the Gospels of Lothair.
ROSSINI: MANUSCRIPT PAGE.
TALLEYRAND: MEMOIRS.
CODEX ALEXANDRINUS.
WASHINGTON: DIARY, 1799.
WYCLIFFE BIBLE
MADISON: ACCOUNT BOOK.
MADISON: INVOICE, 1749.
SAINT VALENTINE.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1553.
ROSNARD: LE BOCAGE, 1554.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1555.
MOZART: STRING QUARTETS.
MEDIEVAL MUSIC MANUSCRIPT.
MADISON: SOLAR SYSTEM.
STAR SPANGLED BANNER, 1814.
LEONARDO: SCUBA GEAR.
CAEDMON MANUSCRIP
PERSIAN WRITING.
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
Edward Lear in 1881
ANGLO SAXON CHRONICLE
SCARLET LETTER, 1850.
1477 edition of the Grandes Chroniques de France
LUTHER: PSALM 34.
EGYPTIAN KORAN.
Republican collection of poetry.
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 1925
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Sailed off in a wooden shoe 1925
Sailing the Wooden Shoe by Moonlight 1925
中国文字
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
W.H. AUDEN: POEMS, 1930.
WILLIAM OF RUBRUQUIS
DOLLEY MADISON (1768-1849)
ELIOT: FOUR QUARTETS.
FURY SAID TO A MOUSE, 1866.
WHITTIER: SNOW-BOUND
Siyawush and Afrasiyab play polo; recto: text circa 1590-1600
The Children of the Poor (Les Enfants Pauvres) - The Ragged Babes That Weep.
Timon of Athens 1607
Henry V 1613
Penny Readings.
DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).
Extract from Lycidas, written in 1637
Japan
A Lady About to Write a Poem
'Alexander at a Banquet'
AUGUST von SCHLEGEL
The old man at death's gate, illustration
WAGNER: DAS RHEINGOLD.
DIABELLI'S WALTZ, 1823.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
JOHANN STRAUSS (1825-1899).
MOZART: REQUIEM, 1791.
CORN (ZEA MAYS), 1542.
SALISBURY MISSAL, 1555.
HEBREW MANUSCRIPT, 1492.
DE L'ESPRIT des LOIX, 1748.
LATIN BIBLE MANUSCRIPT.
GREEK BIBLE.
WASHINGTON: FAREWELL, 1796.
CODEX SINAITICUS.
COPTIC MANUSCRIPT.
WASHINGTON: JOURNAL, 1781.
MADISON: INAUGURAL, 1813.
MADISON: BOOK LIST.
Illustration to Psalm 44, from the Utrecht Psalter from Carolingian Manuscript
Codex Argenteus.
BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS
MARTAGON (LILIUM MARTAGON).
FIG (FICUS CARICA).
LEONARDO DA VINCI: FLIGHT.
LUTE TABLATURE.
ST. JEROME PROCESSIONAL.
THOMAS EDISON (1847-1931).
ROUSSEAU: CONTRAT SOCIAL.
EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS.
WASHINGTON: LETTER, 1790.
LINCOLN: SPEECH, 1864.
MADISON: POLITICAL NOTES.
MADISON: TREATY OF GHENT.
MADISON: BILL OF SALE.
MADISON: FAREWELL, 1816.
Town defences, 15th-century manuscript
EUCLID: ELEMENTS.
Pied Piper leading away children of German town of Hamelin
POPE: RAPE OF THE LOCK.
CHINESE POEM, 1187.
King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, his Queen.
The Tower of London.
CHAUCER: THE WIFE OF BATH