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Box 3

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Contains 85 Results:

Folder 6

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
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 Latin version of the Bible, 1558

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: Item 6
Scope and Contents

A leaf from a Latin version of the Bible, printed at Paris in 1558 by the heirs of Carola Guillard, relict of Claude Chevallon. This version was edited by Johannes Benedictus. The marginal notes show where the Latin is different from the original Hebrew and Greek, and also gives a more literal interpretations of words and phrases. The recto side of the leaf is marked as page 565; the verso side is marked 566.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1558
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 6

Folder 7

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
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 an English Book of Laws, 1559

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: Item 7
Scope and Contents

From an "English Book of Laws", printed at London in 1559 by Rycharde Jugge and John Cawood, "Prynters to the Quenes Maiestie".

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1559
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 7

Folder 8

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: Folder 8
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 Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia Universalis, 1559

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: Item 8
Scope and Contents

From Sebastian Munster's "Cosmographia Universalis". The edition of the book from which this leaf was taken was printed in 1559 by Heinrich Petri at Basle. The woodcuts of this piece are important because they have the initials of the engraver-a rare thing to see in early illustrated books. The recto side of the leaf is page 559 and the verso side is page 560.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1559
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 8

Folder 9

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Identifier: Folder 9
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 Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia Universalis, 1559

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Identifier: Item 9
Scope and Contents

From Sebastian "Munster's Cosmographia Universalis". The edition of the book from which this leaf was taken was printed in 1559 by Heinrich Petri at Basle. The woodcuts of this piece are important because they have the initials of the engraver- a rare thing to see in early illustrated books. The recto side of the leaf is page 671 and the verso side is page 672.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1559
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 9

Folder 10

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Identifier: Folder 10
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 Work on Euclid, 1565

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Identifier: Item 10
Scope and Contents

From a "Work on Euclid" by Nicholas Tartalea. The author's last revised edition was printed in Venice in 1565 by Curtio Troiano. The recto side is marked as page 85 while the verso side has no page number.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1565
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 3 / Folder 10

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