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Box 2

 Container

Contains 101 Results:

Folder 1

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates: 2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE

Manuscript leaf from Candidum Puritatis Lilium

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents

A leaflet from a Latin Manuscript entitled Candidum Puritatis Lilium. It was written by Julianus Antonius a Jaurigui in Guatemala and was "most worthily consecrated" to D. Aloysius Gonzaga. The calligraphy used appears, at first glance, to be very modern; though with a closer inspection abbreviations are apparent. The recto side is marked as 324; the verso side is marked as 325.

Dates: 2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE

Folder 2

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates: 2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE

Leaf from early legal manuscript

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: Item 2
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from an early legal manuscript; dating somewhere around 1280-1320 A.D. This original handwritten Folio leaf is of a very early codex of Canon law. The text is in double colomns and is in the finest Gothic book hand of the period.

Dates: 2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE

Folder 3

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates: 2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE

Manuscript leaf from "Sermones" of Simon de Cremona, 1434

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: Item 3
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from a Latin Manuscript containing the "Sermones" of Simon de Cremona, and was prepared in Buxheim in the Scriptorium of the Carthusian monastery. The scribe was Caspar Misnensis.

Dates: 1434

Folder 4

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates: 2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE

Manuscript leaf from Los Virtuosos Varones

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: Item 4
Scope and Contents

From a "Los Virtuosos Varones", Author unknown. This Portuguese manuscript is on the nobility of the Portuguese aristocracy, ca. 1450. The recto side of the leaflet is marked 63.

Dates: 2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE

Folder 5

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates: 2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE

Leaf from Chonicarum Supplementum, 1486

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 5
Scope and Contents

A leaf from the "Chonicarum Supplementum" of Jacobus Philippus Bergomensis (Foresti), an Augustinian friar; printed by Bernadinus de Benaliis in 1486 in Venice. This is a rare example of incunabula. The work includes descriptions of major cities and major historical events.

Dates: 1486