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Our top most unusual collection items

Reframing the Tin Book

Discovering Boccaccio Manuscripts Online

Deciphering an English Exorcism Manual

Revealing Prints at the British Library

A Silver Clasp

The Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Digitisation Project

The Basilikon Doron of King James VI and I

Reach for the Stars: Marcus Tullius Cicero and the Classical Constellations

Merlin the magician: from devil’s son to King Arthur’s trusted advisor

‘So Long’ from King Naimbanna II – Manuscripts from an 18th Century African King

Who reads digitised Malay manuscripts?

Epic Iran: Some Zoroastrian Treasures

Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens

A mariner's handbook from the library of Sir Walter Raleigh

The King, the Queen, his mistress, and the dead Emperor

A comparison between Rustam and Arjuna

Recording of the week: A Yanomami ceremonial dialogue

An Elegant Sufficiency, or the Curious Case of a Victorian Meme (2018)

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections

Elizabeth Blackwell to Hans Sloane

The View from a Hill: Making Sense of Ras Dharbat Ali in the Archive

The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenges of reversal (2020)

Fascinating beasts (and where to find them)

‘Frenssh’ as it was ‘spak’ in medieval England

Konlabot: Thai Poetry from 'Jewels of Thought'

An enigmatic Javanese manuscript in the British Library

Non-essential retail in nineteenth-century London

An Alternative to the Suez Canal?

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