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Welcome to the digital collections of the Warburg Institute.

The Warburg Institute is the premier institute in the world for the study of cultural history and the role of images in culture. It is concerned with the histories of art and science, and their relationship with superstition, magic, and popular beliefs. Its researches are historical, philological and anthropological. It is dedicated to the study of the survival and transmission of cultural forms – whether in literature, art, music or science – across borders and from the earliest times to the present. We hope to build our digital collections to reflect this remit.
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Ex Libris Aby Warburg: Magic and Science

This collection features books covering the subjects of Magic and Science from the personal library of the Hamburg art historian and scholar Aby Warburg (1866-1929).

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Elizabeth David Bequest

Elizabeth David was a British cookery writer, who brought a revolution to the nation’s eating habits during the mid-twentieth century. As part of her research into the social history of food, David collected cookery books and left her private collection of historical material to the Warburg Institute Library.

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Italian Baroque Opera Libretti

A libretto is a booklet containing the text of an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical, sometimes even ballet. This collection comprises of 45 libretti from the late 17th and early 18th centuries from Italy.

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Miscellaneous Works from our Collections

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