Box 3
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 28
File — Box: 3, Folder: 28
Identifier: Folder 28
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 a Persian manuscript
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 28
Identifier: Item 28
Scope and Contents
A leaf from a Persian manuscript of the early Seventeenth Century, viz., the Sháhnáma of Firdausi, the longest poem in the Persian language. The calligraphy is in the style known as Shekasteh Nastaliq.
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE