"The manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground was first made by Lewis Carroll as a gift. The draft is so beautiful and enriched throughout with amazing sketches that bring the fantastic characters and events to life!" We asked our curators to choose which items they’d love to see animated and we think Alexander, Curator of Modern Archives and Manuscripts, has really come up trumps with this suggestion. You can see a treasured early manuscript version of one of the most famous and enduring ch
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"The manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground was first made by Lewis Carroll as a gift. The draft is so beautiful and enriched throughout with amazing sketches that bring the fantastic characters and events to life!" We asked our curators to choose which items they’d love to see animated and we think Alexander, Curator of Modern Archives and Manuscripts, has really come up trumps with this suggestion. You can see a treasured early manuscript version of one of the most famous and enduring ch
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CLOSING SOON. See the hand-written manuscript of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, in London for the first time ever. | British Library
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CLOSING SOON. See the hand-written manuscript of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, in London for the first time ever. | British Library
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William Shakespeare goes digital as British Library allows public to download first editions
William Shakespeare goes digital as British Library allows public to download first editions
Apr 23, 2016
The TelegraphChris Graham
“When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” — William Shakespeare (from ‘Macbeth’) This year is the 400th birthday of The First Folio, the first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays. The three publicly-held copies in Scottish collections are held by the National Library, University of Glasgow and the Mount Stuart Trust. In a jointly commissioned film narrated by Peter Capaldi, our Head of Rare Books, Helen Vincent, explores our copy and the continuing fascina
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“When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” — William Shakespeare (from ‘Macbeth’) This year is the 400th birthday of The First Folio, the first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays. The three publicly-held copies in Scottish collections are held by the National Library, University of Glasgow and the Mount Stuart Trust. In a jointly commissioned film narrated by Peter Capaldi, our Head of Rare Books, Helen Vincent, explores our copy and the continuing fascina
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William Shakespeare's handwritten plea for refugees to go online
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William Shakespeare's handwritten plea for refugees to go online
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Fancy a spot of Shakespeare? If you’re in formal education – or know anybody that is – then you can sign up to the Shakespeare Archive Resource (http://shakespeare.ch.bbc.co.uk/) to get access to a wealth of Shakespeare radio, TV and images from 50 years of the BBC’s history. | BBC Archive
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Fancy a spot of Shakespeare? If you’re in formal education – or know anybody that is – then you can sign up to the Shakespeare Archive Resource (http://shakespeare.ch.bbc.co.uk/) to get access to a wealth of Shakespeare radio, TV and images from 50 years of the BBC’s history. | BBC Archive
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Shakespeare First Folio | Folger Shakespeare Library
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Journey through 400 years of history – from the first productions of Hamlet and The Tempest – to understand how Shakespeare’s plays have been transformed for new generations of theatre-goers. | British Library
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The Junius manuscript is one of the four major codices of Old English literature. A codice manuscript, or codex, is a format that replaced the scroll in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. It consists of individual sheets of material (like papyrus, parchment, or vellum) that are folded, gathered into quires (or sections), and then bound together along one edge, resembling a modern book. Think of it as the book equivalent of the technology jump from the Nokia 3310 to the iPhone. Written in the 10
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I couldn’t resist sharing one of my favourite manuscript images - tickles me every time I see it. Enjoy! 😁 Descriptions and shelfmarks of images in order of appearance: Owl depicted with smaller birds - in the ‘Bestiary with additions from Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hibernica’ late 12th - mid 13th century. Held at the British Library and available online. Shelfmark - BL Harley 4751 f.47 ‘The killing of Reiner von Brennenberg’ - in The Codex Manesse (c.1300-1340) which is held at the Heidelbe
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