# Medieval and Early Modern collection
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# Medieval and Early Modern collection
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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](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15125)
- [Incunabula](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/14602)
- [Medieval fragments](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15124)
- [Liturgical manuscripts](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/6933)
- [Biblical scrolls](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8340)
Collection SummaryManuscripts and printed works from the Medieval and Early Modern period
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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)
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/7454)
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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)
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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)
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Transfer of a Mortgage by Bargain & Sale by Nicholas Draper to William Draper](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15443)
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Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi : in artem Geometrie incipit quā foelicissime.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15431)
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Leaf from Spanish antiphonal](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15193)
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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)
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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)
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A noble fragment : being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible 1450-1455](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15172)
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[Qur'an : separate leaf from a Kufic manuscript, Abbasidic]](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15165)
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[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)
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Choir psalter ; Hymnal](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15150)
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Antiphonal : Sanctoral and Common of Saints. Spain (Fregenal de la Sierra), 1546.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15149)
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Codex Angus](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15143)
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Sphaera](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15141)
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Nuremberg chronicle](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15139)
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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15138)
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Diffinitioni bellissime di geometria](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15128)
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Libri ethicorum](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15123)
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De christiana religione.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15122)
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Historiae Florentini populi. Libri VII.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15121)
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Illuminated manuscript leaves.](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15120)
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Manuscripts](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15125)
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Medieval fragments](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15124)
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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)
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Biblical scrolls](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8340)
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Annotated first edition copy of Newton's Principia](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/7166)
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Liturgical Manuscripts](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/6933)
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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