We explore the connections of scholar and librarian Humfrey Wanley with the foundation collections of the British Museum Library.

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New multispectral imaging at the British Library has helped us to read one of the earliest surviving illuminated Bibles.

New multispectral imaging at the British Library has helped us to read one of the earliest surviving illuminated Bibles.

The Cotton Genesis (British Library, Cotton MS Otho B VI) is one of the greatest works of manuscript art to survive from late Antiquity and one of the most