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Placidus Caloiro et Oliva, manuscript portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, ca. 1641. VAULT folio Ayer MS map 34, Newberry Library.
Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition (galley proof), 1901. Fine Arts and Special Collections Department, Cleveland Public Library. Via The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive.
Leo Tolstoy, drawing and manuscript page from the first version of War and Peace, ca. 1860. Ink and pencil on paper. The L. Tolstoy Museum. Via Russian Culture.
Unidentified artist, portrait of Phillis Wheatley. Pendleton Lithography Company, c. 1834. From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Donald Fenn.
Canon table, 17th-century manuscript with selections from the Ethiopic Bible, probably commissioned by Emperor Iyasu. British Library Or. 481.
Pixelated scan of Frances Burney, Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World, volume II, London 1779. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Scanned pages of Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Review, January 1855. Via Google Books.
Portrait of Ionuses Bassa, an official in Sultan Suleiman Chan’s army, and his wife, from Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, from The first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Ottoman Familie. London: Adam Islip, 1603. Rare Books Department of Special Collections at the J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Austrian music manuscript Lewis T673, ca. 1300. Free Library of Philadelphia.
Unidentified artist, plate showing enslaved workers manufacturing indigo. From Pierre Pomet, Histoire generale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux, et des mineraux… Paris: J.-B. Loyson & A. Pillon, E. Ducastin, 1694. Via Wellcome Collection.
Unidentified artist, photograph showing the construction of the National Library of Brazil, ca. 1909. Via Atlas Obscura.
A document signed by Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan (1641–1707). Convent of St. Joseph, Paris, 9 February 1689. Morgan Library & Museum.
Manuscript illumination of troubadours by an anonymous German artist, 14th century. Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Emily Dickinson, [All men for honor hardest work], Amherst Manuscript # 128/Franklin # 1205/Johnson Poems # 1193. Amherst College Digital Collections.
Printed sutra scroll from the Hyakumantō Darani (百万塔陀羅尼), One Million Pagodas and Dharani Prayers, 756 CE. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Comparative versions of “El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan” by Jorge Luis Borges, originally written in 1941 and 1944, as transcribed and digitized by Ricardo Vázquez and Christopher D. Warnes. Borges Center, University of Pittsburgh.
Gustave Doré, illustration for Dante’s Inferno, plate VI, for the beginning of Canto II: “Day was departing.” This copy from the 1867 translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Cover of Zitkála-šá, American Indian Stories, Hayworth Publishing, 1921. From the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Via Scribbling Women student blog post by Anna Leoncio.