Incunabula and their readers

Printing, selling and using books in the Fifteenth century

The contributions to this volume address important issues about books and their users in the fifteenth century. A unifying theme is the complex relationships between producers, be they authors, printers or decorators, the economic conditions of book distribution, and the requirements of readers or other ...

The medieval church

in manuscripts

The Church was the largest and most powerful institution in western Europe during the Middle Ages. Its influence upon the religious and spiritual existence of the people was enormous, but it also affected cultural and economic circumstances to a surprising extent, providing th e very ...

The Bible as book

the transmission of the greek text

A medieval herbal

a facsimile of british library Egerton MS 747

The "Tractatus de herbis", reproduced here, is one of the many rare and precious manuscripts in the collections of the British Library. It is an illustrated herbal which comes from a collection of pharmacological texts written in southern Italy around AD 1300AD, which is now ...

Sultan Baybars' Qur'an

On 04 September 2002, the Library launched its latest addition to the series. Sultan Baybars' Qur'an, one of the most magnificent surviving manuscripts of the Qur'an, was produced in 14th-century Cairo in seven volumes. It is considered a masterpiece of Islamic calligraphy and ...

Queen Elizabeth II

a jubilee portrait in stamps

Magic pencil

children's book illustration today

The Sherborne Missal

The CD-ROM features 32 pages from the Sherborne Missal, which the viewer can 'turn' using the computer mouse to click and drag the page. In addition there are zoom facilities and accompanying text about each page and an illustrated essay explaining the history and significance ...

Medieval birds in the sherborne missal

Music in medieval manuscripts

British wood-engraved book illustration, 1904-1940

a break with tradition

Five hundred years of book design

Astrology

a history

Short-title catalogue of books pinted in France and of french books printed in other countries

from 1470 to 1600. Supplement