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Box 2

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Contains 2 Results:

Folder 24

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Identifier: Folder 24
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 the Saturnalia of Macrobius, 1513

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Identifier: Item 24
Scope and Contents

From the "Saturnalia of Macrobius", "A new edition diligently revised and purged of infinitive errors" by Joannes Riviusit was printed for Lucantnio Giunta by Agostino de Zanni de Portesio at Venice in 1513. The recto side of this leaf is marked LXXXV.

Dates: 1513