This collection of manuscripts and printed works from Rare Books and Special Collections is a curated selection of items from the collection for the Medieval (5th to 15th century) through to the Early Modern period (15th to 18th Century).
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books)
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet : atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat.
A noble fragment : being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible 1450-1455
[Qur'an : separate leaf from a Kufic manuscript, Abbasidic]
[Qur'an : separate leaf from a Kufic manuscript, Abbasidic - part of verse 109 of the second Quran sura]
Choir psalter ; Hymnal
Antiphonal : Sanctoral and Common of Saints. Spain (Fregenal de la Sierra), 1546.
Codex Angus
Sphaera
Nuremberg chronicle
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Diffinitioni bellissime di geometria
Libri ethicorum
De christiana religione.
Historiae Florentini populi. Libri VII.
Illuminated manuscript leaf.
Historia scholastica, magistri Petri Comestoris Sacre Scripture seriem brevem nimis & obscuram elucidans.
Land transfers, Switzerland.
Epistolae beati Pauli M.S.
Isaiah: Glossa ordinaria
VI. Decret. Clement etextrav
Acciaioli historia fiorentina
Manuscripts
Medieval fragments
Incunabula
Biblical scrolls
Annotated first edition copy of Newton's Principia
Liturgical Manuscripts
Associate Professor Cate Storey discusses the University of Sydney copy of Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica
