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Box 3

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Contains 85 Results:

Folder 16

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Identifier: Folder 16
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3

Leaf from a Catholic and Ecclesiastical Exposition of the Holy Gospel after S. John, 1575

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Identifier: Item 16
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from "A Catholic and Ecclesiasticall Exposition of the Holy Gospel after S. John", and was translated by Thomas Timme. "Imprinted in London" 1575, by Thomas Marshe. The recto side is marked as page 249; the verso is marked as 205.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1575
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 16

Folder 17

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 17
Identifier: Folder 17
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3

Leaf from a Roman Missal, 1576

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 17
Identifier: Item 17
Scope and Contents

A leaf from a Roman Missal, printed in 1576 by the heirs of Lucantonio di Giunta at Venice and issued in accordance with the decrees of the famous Council of Trent. The recto side is marked as page 179; the verso side has no page markings.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1576
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 17

Folder 18

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 18
Identifier: Folder 18
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3

Leaf from Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, 1579

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 18
Identifier: Item 18
Scope and Contents

From Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes," translated by Sir Thomas North out of the french version of Bishop Amyot. This translation was printed by Thomas Vautrollier at London in 1579. This leaf was taken from the first edition; the same edition that Shakespeare used as a source for his historical plays. The recto side is page 589; the verso is page 590.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1579
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 18

Folder 19

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 19
Identifier: Folder 19
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3

Leaf from the Sermons of John Calvin, 1583

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 19
Identifier: Item 19
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from the "Sermons of John Calvin", and was translated from French by Arthur Golding. It was printed by Henry Middleton for George Bishop in London, 1583. The recto side of this leaf is numbered as page 817; the verso is page 818.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1583
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 19

Folder 20

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 20
Identifier: Folder 20
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3

Leaf from Portraits et Vies des Hommes Illustres, 1584

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 20
Identifier: Item 20
Scope and Contents

A leaf from Portraits et Vies des Hommes Illustres, par André Thevet, Angoumoysin (of Angoulême), Premier Cosmograph du Roy. It was printed on the press of Kervert and Chaudiére, Paris, 1584. While the large initial letter was probably a cut from wood, the larger engraving was done on copper. The recto side of this leaf is marked as page 382; the verso side has no page number.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1584
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 20

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