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The Peterborough Chronicle, Folio 33v: A.D. 885-887
Folio 33 verso of The Peterborough Chronicle's verson of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. This manuscript leaf shows the chronicle entries for the years from 885 to 887, which includes the Danes at Paris, Alfred repairing London, and Wars in France owing…
Margaret Atwood's first handwritten draft of The Handmaid's Tale
An image of Atwood's first handwritten draft of her 1985 novel, The Handmaid's Tale. The image of these archival materials showcases both lined paper and yellow legal notepad paper upon which the novel was drafted. These materials are housed in the…
Margaret writing The Handmaid's Tale, Berlin, 1984.
Margaret Atwood sits at a table using a typewriter in Berlin, typing The Handmaid's Tale from her manuscript.
Shan Hai Jing Manuscript (Ming Dynasty, 1465)
This is a hand-copied version of the Shan Hai Jing made in 1465 during the Ming Dynasty by a scholar named Wu Kuan. It also includes notes written earlier by Guo Pu, a scholar from the Jin Dynasty. The book mixes mythology, geography, and cosmology,…