No. 2. Amir Timur. Portrait of a prince seated on a golden throne, with a sword on his lap, wearing a...
No. 32. Full-length portrait of Azam Shah, standing, facing left, wearing a purple dress and holding a...
MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 107r. Ship grounded on back of whale, bushes sprout from its back, on which a...
An engraving of Rycote House by Henry Winstanley after a drawing by William Delafield for his father...
John Wallis translates George Dalgarno’s preface to Charles II, from his own copy of Dalgarno’s 'Ars...
Paradiso, Canto: XVIII. Sagittarius and Pisces beside Jupiter; Dante and Beatrice look at Diligite...
Sphere of life and death, here called the Sphere of Pythagoras (also variously attributed to Apuleius,...
Text: start of St. Matthew. Large elaborately decorated gold initial 'L(iber generationis)' on pink...
Start of text. Four miniatures. A. tonsured young man (the author) in bed, dreaming. Striped blanket...
Text with miniature. Jehan de Meung (his real name being Jehan Clopinel) succeeds Guillaume de Lorris....
Eruption of Vesuvius on 9 August 1779. seen from Naples. Gouache by Pietro Fabis, from the suplement...
Woodcut of Mount Etna volcano accompanying a description of activity on Tenerife. Sebastian Münster,...
Farmers living on the flanks of Gede volcano, Java, Indonesia. A lava flow partly fills the landsclied...