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One hundred treasures from the British Library
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Presents highlights from the collections of the British Library, including sacred texts, western and oriental illuminated manuscripts, English literary manuscripts, historical documents, music manu...
Presents highlights from the collections of the British Library, including sacred texts, western and oriental illuminated manuscripts, English literary manuscripts, historical documents, music manuscripts, maps, newspapers, stamps, and sound recordings.
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- Format
- Computer file
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Dual-format Windows/Mac ed
- [London] : British Library ; [New York] : Distributed in North America by H.N. Abrams, c1998
- Physical Details
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- 1 computer optical disc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user guide
- ISBNs
- 0712343180, 9780712343183
- OCLC
- ocm40256926
- Credits
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- Heather Crossley, producer
- Title from disc surface.
- In container (22 cm.).
- Partial content and additional information available on the Internet.
- System requirements for PC: 486DX/66MHz or better; 8 MB RAM; SVGA graphics (256 colours); Windows 3.1 or Windows 95; 2x CD-ROM drive; Sound-blaster compatible sound card; speakers; mouse.
- System requirements for Macintosh: Colour Macintosh; 256 colour support at 640x480; CPU, LC III; 4 MB RAM; System 7.0; 2x CD-ROM drive; mouse.
- Music manuscripts: Sumer is i-cumen in ; Old Hall manuscript ; Henry Purcell ; J.S. Bach ; Georg Fridich Handel ; W.A. Mozart ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Franz Schubert ; Edward Elgar ; The Beatles -- Illuninated manuscripts in the East: Egyptian Qur-an ; Buddhist texts ; Story of Selarasa ; Sultan Mahmud's letter ; Armenian Gospels ; Ethiopic Gospels ; Ramayana ; Memoirs of Babur ; Khamsa of Nizami ; Dara Shikoh album -- Illuminated manuscripts in the West: Lindisfarne Gospels ; English Benedictional ' Silos Apocalypse ; Queen Melisende's Psalter ; Luttrell Psalter ; Coronation book of Charles V ; Bulgarian Gospels ; Bedford hours ; Sfosza hours ; Roman de la rose -- Sacred texts: Codex Sinaiticus ; Harley Latin Gospels ; German Pentateuch ; Golden Haggadah ; Kufic Qur'an ; Baybar's Qur'an ; Buddhist scrolls ; Japanese Sutra ; Devimahatmya ; Tyndale's New Testament -- Sound recordings: Torres Straits cylinder ; James Joyce ; Hebridean Waulking song ; Arrival at Auschwitz ; Igor Stravinsky ; Cleo Laine and Gracie Cole ; Paul Robeson's Othello ; The Beathles and Kenny Everett ; Kauai O'o A'o -- Newspapers and stamps: Thomason tract ; The sun ; Mafefing Mail ; The Suffragette ; Evening Standard ; Mauritius: 1847 issue ; Spain: 1851 2 reals ; Britain: 1858-79 1 d red ; USA: 1918 24 cents ; Jamaica: 1956-58 £1 -- Printing and book binding: Diamond Sutra ; Spring and autumn annals ; Gutenberg Bible ; Caxton's Chaucer ; Hortys Eystettensis ; Shakespeare first folio ; Kelmscott Chaucer ; Elizabeth I binding ; Cobden-Sanderson binding -- English literary manusripts: Beowulf ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; Alexander Pope ; William Blake ; Jane Austen ; Charlotte Bronte ; Lewis Carroll ; Wilfred Owen ; Virginia Woolf -- Maps and views: Psalter map ; Matthew Paris map ; Hajj certificate ; Desceliers' world map ; Saxton County map ; Chinese globe ; Duke's plan of York ; Imperial Chinese journey ; Orissan map ; View of Benares -- Historical documents: Bede's history ; Anglo-Saxon chronicle ; Magna Carta ; Elizabeth I letter ; Lady Jane Grey's prayer book ; Leonardo's notebook ; East India Company ; Florence Nightingale letter ; British ultimatum 1939