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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:

A collection of LGBQT+ ephemera including colourful pamphlets, zines and badges.

LGBT+ print material

The cover of Potato Pete's Recipe Book. There is an illustration of a Potato with a face and limbs. He is wearing a hat and holding a pitchfork.

Potato Pete's Recipe Book

An image of the cover of a Dandy comic with a cartoon of a cat on it.

'The Dandy' and 'The Broons'

Black and white photo of a seal pup.

Tom Weir photographs

Hand drawn and coloured bird's eye view of the town of St. Andrews.

Map of St. Andrews from around 1580

A photo of a manuscript.

A copy of Lord Byron's 'Ode on Venice', made by Mary Shelley, 1818

An old book lying open with a diagram in it.

Johannes Kepler's 'Astronomiae pars optica', 1604

A page of an old book written in Latin. It has an illustration of a man in robes sitting at a desk with an open book on it.

Early illuminated printed text

Black and white photo of Jacob Wainwright and a handwritten letter.

Jacob Wainwright's letter

A photo of a page of a poem written in Gaelic.

Praise poem by Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh from the 'Eigg Collection' (1776)

An illustration of a man on a horse with a woman chasing after him.

Tam o' Shanter illustration

Part of a manuscript.

Aberdeen Breviary

A photo of the first page of the Gutenberg Bible. It is in an old fashioned script and has an illustration of someone sitting at a desk writing in the top left corner.

Gutenberg Bible

An illustration of a windmill. At the bottom the name "Andrew Myllar" is printed.

Scotland's first printed books

Photo of a wax cylinder recording

Wax cylinder recordings

'Bantam' by Jackie Kay (e-book)

An old coloured film still of three men climbing a mountain.

Early Scottish colour film

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