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CATALOGUES AND COLLECTIONS Catalogues and Collections. The British Library’s collection includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound. Many of our digital collections provide material for free online. Please come to our Reading Rooms to access material that isn’t available online. CATALOGUES - THE BRITISH LIBRARY - THE BRITISH LIBRARY Catalogue of photographically illustrated books. Containing details of 1,323 books and 15,274 photographs with titles and descriptions, and 320 digital images of original photographs – DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS Digitised Manuscripts Home. Use this website to view digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections, with descriptions of their contents. Explore the Library's latest major acquisition, the St Cuthbert Gospel. Some other highlights include the Harley Golden Gospels, Beowulf, the Silos Apocalypse,

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This database is a finding aid to the British Library's bookbindings. It aims to provide information and images of selected bindings of books printed in western Europe from the fifteenth century to date. Bindings of other formats (notably manuscripts) and from other regions (including Asia, the Middle East and Africa) will gradually be added

THE BRITISH LIBRARY

Treasures of the British Library. Free. Tue 18 May 2021 - Mon 31 Dec

2035.

CATALOGUES AND COLLECTIONS Catalogues and Collections. The British Library’s collection includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound. Many of our digital collections provide material for free online. Please come to our Reading Rooms to access material that isn’t available online. CATALOGUES - THE BRITISH LIBRARY - THE BRITISH LIBRARY Catalogue of photographically illustrated books. Containing details of 1,323 books and 15,274 photographs with titles and descriptions, and 320 digital images of original photographs – DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS Digitised Manuscripts Home. Use this website to view digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections, with descriptions of their contents. Explore the Library's latest major acquisition, the St Cuthbert Gospel. Some other highlights include the Harley Golden Gospels, Beowulf, the Silos Apocalypse,

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This database is a finding aid to the British Library's bookbindings. It aims to provide information and images of selected bindings of books printed in western Europe from the fifteenth century to date. Bindings of other formats (notably manuscripts) and from other regions (including Asia, the Middle East and Africa) will gradually be added EXPLORE THE BRITISH LIBRARY Explore the British Library (80m items) Printed material. Bookbindings. British National Bibliography. English Short Title Catalogue. Incunabula (early printing) Manuscripts. Archives and manuscripts. Illuminated manuscripts. DISCOVER THE RICHES OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY Discover the riches of the British Library. fix the location of thousands of old maps. view virtual books with 'Turning the Pages' enjoy online exhibitions. take a highlights tour. We regret that registration, log-in, personal galleries and related advanced features in our Online Gallery are unavailable at present. MY ACCOUNT - THE BRITISH LIBRARY Username (this may be your email address) Password. Log in

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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s greatest libraries. We hold over 13 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 57 million patents and 3 million sound recordings. We are open to everyone. HOME - BRITISH LIBRARY IMAGES Images Online is the picture library of the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom.We host some of the nation’s best historical collections, in many different languages from across the world, including the private collection of King George III which is housed in the King’s Library.. Our images are used worldwide, in books, theses, exhibitions, documentaries and products.

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