Matchless Pieces · 3,736 works
Manuscripts & Rare Books
Codices, scrolls, incunabula and first editions that survive in a single copy.
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Dead Sea Scrolls
Hebrew manuscripts of the 3rd century BC – 1st century…
Codex Sinaiticus
4th-century Greek Bible, the oldest complete New Testament.
Sarajevo Haggadah
Illuminated Hebrew Haggadah of c. 1350 from Barcelona.
Gutenberg’s Type and Press
The mechanics behind Europe's first printed books.
Galileo’s Telescopes
The two surviving telescopes of 1609–10 that revealed Jupiter's moons.
Astrolabe of al-Sahli
Andalusian brass astrolabe of 1067 from Toledo.
Takiyüddin’s Istanbul Observatory
1577 miniature of the Ottoman astronomers of Takiyüddin at work.
Anonymous, Hebrew manuscript
Hebrew manuscript A.31
Anonymous, Hebrew manuscript
Folio 1 recto of Hebrew Manuscript A 25