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Image from Leonardo da Vinci's notebook

Sketches by Leonardo

See the genius's personal notebook

Image from Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll

Image from Mozart's Thematic Catalogue

Mozart's musical diary

With 75 audio excerpts

Image from Jane Austen's 'History of England'

Jane Austen's early work

'The History of England' in her own hand

Image from the Ramayana

Ramayana

India's great epic in 17th-century paintings

Image from Sultan Baybars' Qur'an

Baybars' magnificent Qur'an

Epitome of sumptuous Arabic calligraphy

Image from the Ethiopic Bible

Bible from Ethiopia

Commissioned by Emperor Iyasu in around 1700

Image from the Lisbon Bible

Lisbon Hebrew Bible

Survivor of 15th-century Jewish culture

Image from William Blake's Notebook

Blake's notebook

Sketches and poems, including 'The Tyger'

Image from the Sforza Hours

Masterpiece of the Renaissance

Beautiful images from the Sforza Hours

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