The Digital Walters

Non-Walters Books

This Web page links to complete sets of high-resolution archival images of entire books from private collections that were imaged at the Walters Art Museum. They are available for free under a Creative Commons CC0 license. Manuscripts images and descriptions were created and are provided through Preservation and Access grants awarded to the Walters Art Museum by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008-2014.

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• Archimedes Palimpsest (10th/12th C. CE)
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• Galen Syriac Palimpsest (11th/9th C. CE)
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• PC.1, Bestiary, Pierre de Beauvais, French (1280 - 1290 CE, North-Eastern France)
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• PC.2, Historiae Romanorum etc., , Latin (880 - 920 CE)
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• PC.3, On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life, Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882, English (1859 CE, London, England)
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• PC.4, Syriac Troparia accompanying the Odes for Weekdays, with an important palimpsest text of a Syriac translation of a Greek medical work, Syriac (1000 - 1099 CE)
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• PC.5, Albrecht Durer's Small Woodcut Passion (1508 - 1511 CE)
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• PC.6, The Cornaro Missal, , Latin (1500 - 1599 CE)
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• PC.7.I, The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex: in two volumes, vol. 1, Charles Darwin (1809-1882), English (1871 CE)
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• PC.7.II, The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex: in two volumes, vol. 2, Charles Darwin (1809-1882), English (1871 CE)
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• PC.8, Insectivorous plants, Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882, English (1875 CE)
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• PC.9, Erasmus Darwin, Krause, Ernst, 1839-1903, English (1879 CE)
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• PC.10, Philoponus's Commentary on the first four books of Aristotle's Physics, with annotations by Galileo Galilei, Philoponus, John, 6th cent., Latin (1546 - 1546 CE)
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• PC.11, Tacuinum Sanitatis, Latin (1450 CE)
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