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Curated by Dr. Molly G. Yarn

  • The Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s copy of the Gesta Romanorum (1488)

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  • Tellers’ Bills from the Receipt of the Exchequer, London (1568-1634)

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  • George Sand's manuscript of her translation into French of Shakespeare's As You Like It (1856)

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  • 16th-century manuscript of Sir Thomas More's Dialogue Concerning Heresies

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  • Eugene Ionesco's manuscript of a play performed for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in May 1957

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  • Seneca’s Tragoediae (Florence, 1513)

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  • The Shakespeare Second Folio (London, 1632)

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  • Edward Langley, The Duke of York manuscript indenture signed 1398

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  • Thomas Dekker, The Second Part of the Honest Whore (London, 1630)

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  • Queen Elizabeth’s Privy Counsel, document signed 25 January 1598

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  • Manuscript payment for a royal sitting with King James, 24 July 1618

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  • Chapman, Jonson, and Marston's Eastward Ho! (London, 1605)

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  • The Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio (London, 1647)

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  • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) with manuscripts signed by Christopher Wren

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  • Portrait of a Gentleman said to be William Shakespeare, circa 1610

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