Box 4
Container
Contains 71 Results:
Leaf from the Extant Works of Clement of Alexandria, 1688
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 15
Identifier: Item 15
Scope and Contents
From the Extant Works of Clement of Alexandria, issued by Johann Meyer and Jeremiah Schrey at Cologne, 1688. The volume contains a recession of the Latin translation by Daniel Heinsius and textual emendations by Friedrich Sylburge. The recto side is marked 99 and the verso side is marked 100.
Dates:
1688
Folder 16
File — Box: 4, 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
Leaf from Parliamentary Acts, 1695/1698
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 16
Identifier: Item 16
Scope and Contents
A leaf from Parliamentary Acts that were passed during the reign of William III of England. It was printed by the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb. They were printers to His Majesty, in 1695-1698 in London. The recto side of the page is marked as 737, and the verso side is marked as 738.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1695/1698
Folder 17
File — Box: 4, 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
Italian manuscript leaf
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 17
Identifier: Item 17
Scope and Contents
This leaf is from an Italian manuscript and was written mid-Seventeenth Century by a lawyer in the Roman Curia named Theodorus Amydenius.
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE
Folder 18
File — Box: 4, 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
Leaf from Phaedri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V, 1701
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 18
Identifier: Item 18
Scope and Contents
A leaf from Phaedri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Most of the engravings were done by J. V. Vianen, and the notes and Dutch translation were by David Hoogstraten. It was printed in Amsterdam, 1701 by Francis Halma. Note the fine copper engravings. The recto side is page 89 and the verso side is page 90.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1701
Folder 19
File — Box: 4, 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
Leaf from Constitutiones de Jure Jurando, 1706
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 19
Identifier: Item 19
Scope and Contents
This leaf is from Constitutiones de Jure Jurando- a treatise on oaths by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, who was more commonly known as Maimonides. The volume from which this leaf was taken was published in 1706, Leyden by Cornelius Landgraf. It was edited and translater into Latin by Justus Christopher Dithmar and was dedicated to Charles I, Landgraf of Hesse. The left column is in Hebrew; the right column is the Latin translation. The recto side of the leaflet is marked 165; the verso is marked...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1706
Folder 20
File — Box: 4, 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