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Box 3

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Contains 2 Results:

Folder 29

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 29
Identifier: Folder 29
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

Italian manuscript leaf by Perlone Zipoli

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 29
Identifier: Item 29
Scope and Contents

An Italian manuscript leaf from the Seventeenth Century by "Perlone Zipoli". The name is an anagram under which Lorenzo Lippi hid his authorship. The recto side of the leaflet has two paragraphs; the first marked 21, and the second marked 22. The verso side is similar; but the two paragraphs are marked 23 and 24.

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