I was browsing through the first of these links and thinking about how useful scans of old manuscripts and woodcuts might be in coming up with and developing ideas for adventure game-ish type plots (The last of the links here leads to a document featured in Broken Sword 3).
I thought AGSers who weren't familiar with these libraries might find them useful:
Fantastic images from art and literature:
http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/
Ancient Egyptian Papyrus scans:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/
Medieval manuscripts:
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/browse.htm
Early US adverts:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
Scans of the Voynich Manuscript:
http://www.voynich.nu/folios.html
Let me know if you find these sites interesting, or if you know of any interesting libraries I haven't discovered. Likewise, let me know if you find the whole business dull and want me to go away.
I think this is a good idea; thanks for the links, I actually was looking for something like the manuscript link that you posted.
Mayan codices:
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/
Also, this was a fascinating place to visit:
http://museum.antwerpen.be/plantin_moretus/index_eng.html