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The Treasures Gallery at the National Library of Scotland is a showcase of Scotland's collective memory.

Here is a selection of items from the exhibition, past and present:

Miniature wooden pagoda next to a scroll with ancient text

The Hyakumantō Darani

Tam o' Shanter illustration

The title page of Shakespeare's first folio showing a portrait of him.

Shakespeare's First Folio

Miniature Latin book of hours

A drawn map of the Lothians and the south of Fife.

Scotland's first atlas

A title page of a book. The title is "Uilliam Tell". The text below says "le Friedrich Schiller". There is further text in Scottish Gaelic.

'Wilhelm Tell' in Gaelic

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus

Rob Roy manuscript

Programme cover

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The 'green diary'

Scottish labour movement

First issue of 'The Scotsman'

Ae fond kiss

A detail of the Darien scheme proposal manuscript

The Darien scheme

'Poems' by Robert Burns

Pont map

Map of Stirlingshire

Scotia Regnum

Part of a manuscript

Aberdeen Breviary

Scotland's first printed books

Men standing on the side of a bridge

Building the Forth Bridge

Calvin's Catechism in Gaelic

Materia Medica

Film projector

Kodascope cine projector

Mirror of the Life of Christ

Detail of handwritten letter

Robert Burns letter in Scots

Gutenberg Bible

Isobel Wylie Hutchison

Wax cylinder recording

Wax cylinder recordings

Detail of a programme with English and Gaelic text

Mòd programme, 1893

The Lyon in Mourning

'Bantam' by Jackie Kay (e-book)

Darwin's letter

The Maid of Isla

Iona Psalter

Plan of the Battle of Culloden

Scottish Devolution Referendum

Harry Potter in translation

Early Scottish colour film

Wheel bookbinding