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Manuscripts -- Facsimiles

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• Manuscripts
• Facsimiles

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• Autographs -- Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, American -- Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, English (Old) -- Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Greek -- Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Irish -- Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Latin -- Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Mexican -- Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Persian -- Facsimiles
• Manuscripts, Syriac -- Facsimiles
• Bible -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles
• Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles
• Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles
• Music -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles
• Styron, William, 1925-2006 -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles

• American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Consisting of Fac-Similes of Original Documents Relating to the Events of the Revolution, &c. &c. (sixth edition; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), ed. by J. Jay Smith and John F. Watson (Gutenberg page images)
• American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Consisting of Fac-Similes of Some Plates, &c. Relating to Columbus, and Original Documents of the Revolution, &c. &c. ... Second Series (New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1860), ed. by J. Jay Smith (Gutenberg HTML and page images)

• Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of Lie Down in Darkness (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by William Styron, contrib. by James L. W. West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beowulf: Autotypes of the Unique Cottom Ms. Vitellius A XV in the British Museum, With a Transliteration and Notes (EETS original series #77; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner, 1882), ed. by Julius Zupitza (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Appendix Codicum Celeberrimorum Sinaitici, Vaticani, Alexandrini; Cum Imitatione Ipsorum Antiqua Manu Scriptorum (Greek manuscript facsimiles with Latin commentary; Leipzig: Giesecke et Devrient, 1867), ed. by Constantin von Tischendorf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, During the Sessions of 1855 and 1856 (Dublin: W. Hinch and P. Traynoe, 1878), by Eugene O'Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Calendar of St. Willibrord, from Ms. Paris Lat. 10837: A Facsimile, With Transcription, Introduction, and Notes (calendar in Latin, commentary in English; Henry Bradshaw Society publication series v55; London: Harrison and Sons, 1918), ed. by H. A. Wilson, contrib. by Saint Willibrord (page images at HathiTrust)

• Acta et Processus Canonizationis Sanctae Birgittae: Codex Holmiensis A 14 (facsimile of Latin handwritten text, with introduction by Collijn in Swedish and French; Handskrifter Fràn Sveriges Medeltid #1; 1920), contrib. by Isak Collijn
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • page images at Harvard
• Gai Codex Rescriptus in Bibliotheca Capitulari Ecclesiae Cathedralis Verenensis Distinctus Numero XV (13), Cura et Studio Eiusdem Bibliothecae Custodis, Phototypice Expressus (in Latin; Leipzig: K. W. Hiersemann, 1909), by Gaius, contrib. by Antonio Spagnolo and Saint Jerome (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Disputationes Camaldulenses (Latin manuscript facsimile with pages in reverse order; ca. 1474), by Cristoforo Landino (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cloisters Apocalypse: An Early Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), contrib. by Florens Deuchler, Jeffrey Hoffeld, and Helmut Nickel (PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Codex Fejérváry-Mayer: An Old Mexican Picture Manuscript in the Liverpool Free Public Museums (12014/M) (Berlin and London, 1901-1902), ed. by Eduard Seler, trans. by A. H. Keane
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some images stripped out
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1983), by Annemarie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Palestinian Syriac Texts From Palimpsest Fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Collection (London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1900), ed. by Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Appendix Codicum Celeberrimorum Sinaitici, Vaticani, Alexandrini; Cum Imitatione Ipsorum Antiqua Manu Scriptorum (Greek manuscript facsimiles with Latin commentary; Leipzig: Giesecke et Devrient, 1867), ed. by Constantin von Tischendorf (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of Thel (multiple copies), by William Blake (Java-dependent page images at blakearchive.org)

• The Networked Recluse: The Connected World of Emily Dickinson (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, 2017), contrib. by T. Michael Kelly, Carolyn Vega, Marta L. Werner, Susan Howe, and Richard Wilbur (PDF with commentary at Amherst (providing personal information is optional))

• Mediaeval Musical Relics of Denmark (Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1912), by Angul Hammerich, trans. by Margaret Williams Hamerik
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of Lie Down in Darkness (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by William Styron, contrib. by James L. W. West (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Die Älteren Papsturkunden des Erzbistums Hamburg: Eine Diplomatische Untersuchung (in German; Hamburg and Leipzig: L. Voss, 1909), by F. Curschmann
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Les Tamgas des Kirghizes (Kazaks) (offprint from "Revue du monde musulman", in French; 1921), by Joseph Castagné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• L'Archiviste François: ou, Méthode Sûre pour Apprendre à Arranger les Archives, et Déchiffrer les Anciennes Ecritures (second edition, in French; Paris: Le Clerc, 1775), by M. Batteney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Not Written in Stone: Jews, Constitutions, and Constitutionalism in Canada (c2003), ed. by Daniel Judah Elazar, Michael Brown, and Ira Robinson (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• By-Laws of the Michigan State Reform School (1869), by Michigan Boys Vocational School (page images at MOA)

• Archaeologia Scotica: Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (full serial archives)

• Constitutional Provisions, Laws and By-Laws of the University of Michigan, by University of Michigan (page images at MOA)

• The Yukon Gazette, by Yukon (partial serial archives)

• An Act of the Legislature of Alabama Creating a Commission Form of Government Under Which the City of Birmingham is Now Organized, In Effect March 31, 1911 (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1911), by Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter of the City of East Saginaw, by Saginaw (Michigan) (page images at MOA)

• Bay City Charter, Rules of Common Council & Ordinances, by Bay City (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• An Act of the Legislature of Alabama Creating a Commission Form of Government Under Which the City of Birmingham is Now Organized, In Effect March 31, 1911 (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1911), by Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston, Together With the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1850), by Boston (Mass.), ed. by Peleg W. Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages, by Illinois (page images at MOA)

• The Charter of the City of Detroit as Amended, Together with Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (1867 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• Revised Charter (As Amended,) of the City of Detroit (1859 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• The Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Detroit (1855 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company, by Hudson's Bay Company (Gutenberg text)

• The Revised Charter & Ordinances of the City of Kenosha, with the By-Laws of the Council, by Kenosha (Wis.) (page images at MOA)

• Charter of the City of Lansing (1859), by Lansing (Michigan) (page images at MOA)

• Meeting the Challenge of Charter Reform, by Kevin F. McCarthy, Steven P. Erie, and Robert E. Reichardt (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Revising the New York City Charter: Introductory Report (ca. 1973), by State Charter Revision Commission for New York City (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Richmond (Richmond, VA: J. E. Goode, city printer, 1875), by Richmond (Va.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter of the City of East Saginaw, by Saginaw (Michigan) (page images at MOA)

• The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London, With Seven Related Documents, 1606-1621 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #4; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), ed. by Samuel Merrifield Bemiss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Clavis Diplomatica, Specimina Veterum Scripturarum Tradens, Alphabeta Nimirum Varia, Medii Aevi Compendia Scribendi, Notariorum Veterum Signa Perplura, cet. Singula Tabulis Aeneis Expressa (in Latin; Hanover, Germany: B. N. Foerster and sons, 1754), by Daniel Eberhard Baring, ed. by Eberhard Johann Baring, contrib. by Jean Mabillon, Burkhard Gotthelf Struve, Johann Wilhelm von Goebel, Daniel von Papenbroeck, Johann Nikolaus Hertuis, Thomas Ruddiman, Johann Gottlieb Krause, and Johann Wilhelm Waldschmidt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1987), by Daniel M. Friedenberg (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Les Tamgas des Kirghizes (Kazaks) (offprint from "Revue du monde musulman", in French; 1921), by Joseph Castagné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.