Mathematical Treasures Posted by vo2maxer on Saturday November 02, 2019 @05:37PM from the maa.org dept. https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasures-from-the-smith-and-plimpton-collections-index ( 2 comments | 90 points | on HN )
My personal favorite is this one, the only mathematical proof ever published by a U.S. President — James A. Garfield’s 1876 proof of the Pythagorean Theorem: https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematic...
https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
(Doesn't include their famous illuminated medieval manuscripts collection though.)