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Box 2

 Container

Contains 2 Results:

Folder 1

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
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 Candidum Puritatis Lilium

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents

A leaflet from a Latin Manuscript entitled Candidum Puritatis Lilium. It was written by Julianus Antonius a Jaurigui in Guatemala and was "most worthily consecrated" to D. Aloysius Gonzaga. The calligraphy used appears, at first glance, to be very modern; though with a closer inspection abbreviations are apparent. The recto side is marked as 324; the verso side is marked as 325.

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