This collection of manuscripts and printed works from Rare Books and Special Collections is a curated selection of items from the collection for the Medieval (5th to 15th century) through to the Early Modern period (15th to 18th Century).

Manuscripts
Incunabula
Medieval fragments
Liturgical manuscripts
Biblical scrolls Collection SummaryManuscripts and printed works from the Medieval and Early Modern period

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Text

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books)](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14018)

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/7454)

Register of baptisms, marriages and burials in the Parish of Abbots Leigh, Somerset, 1538-1599 / Abbots Leigh, Parish.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15455)

Lectionary of epistles and gospels for the Saturdays and Sundays of the year with the feasts of the saints of the twelve months, 1524.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15450)

Transfer of a Mortgage by Bargain & Sale by Nicholas Draper to William Draper](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15443)

Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi : in artem Geometrie incipit quā foelicissime.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15431)

Leaf from Spanish antiphonal](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15193)

ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa Gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt : [A section of The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence]](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15191)

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet : atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15179)

A noble fragment : being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible 1450-1455](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15172)

[Qur'an : separate leaf from a Kufic manuscript, Abbasidic]](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15165)

[Qur'an : separate leaf from a Kufic manuscript, Abbasidic - part of verse 109 of the second Quran sura]](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15164)

Choir psalter ; Hymnal](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15150)

Antiphonal : Sanctoral and Common of Saints. Spain (Fregenal de la Sierra), 1546.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15149)

Codex Angus](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15143)

Sphaera](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15141)

Nuremberg chronicle](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15139)

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15138)

Diffinitioni bellissime di geometria](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15128)

Libri ethicorum](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15123)

De christiana religione.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15122)

Historiae Florentini populi. Libri VII.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15121)

Illuminated manuscript leaves.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15120)

Collection

Manuscripts](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15125)

Medieval fragments](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15124)

Incunabula](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14602)

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books)](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14020)

Biblical scrolls](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8340)

Annotated first edition copy of Newton's Principia](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/7166)

Liturgical Manuscripts](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/6933)

Video

Associate Professor Cate Storey discusses the University of Sydney copy of Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14592)

Medieval and Early Modern collection. University of Sydney Library, accessed 23/03/2026, https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8299