Overview for 'Early Modern'

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Luna collections - Western Manuscripts
The Bodleian Libraries made freely available online a highly important collection of digital items of western manuscripts from the Medieval to the Modern Period. The collection gathers classical literary manuscripts, Bible manuscripts, Anglo-Norman literature, French literature and poems, Irish manuscripts and British poems and romances (particularly written in Middle English and Old English).
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The Library of Charles V preserved in the National Library of France
The collection gathers several precious items, for example the first French encyclopedia in the vernacular language 'Image du monde' by Gossuin de Metz and the wonderful richly illustrated atlas of Nautical Charts by Abraham Cresques.
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The Finnish Travel Collection
These books are about Lapland, Finland, and Sweden and include travel accounts, travel guides, illustrated works, and research, written in Finnish, Swedish, English, French, German, Dutch, and Latin.
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Portrait Collection of the Austrian National Library
More than 150,000 portraits from the Austrian National Library including European and non-European regent dynasties, divided into categories like popes, emperors, kings, nobles, Austrian dukes and other kings.
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Slovakian collection of paintings and sculptures
A collection of more than 2,300 sculptures, wooden engravings and paintings from Slovakia.
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