Box 2
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 32
File — Box: 2, Folder: 32
Identifier: Folder 32
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 Postille Majores Cum Questionibus, 1525
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 32
Identifier: Item 32
Scope and Contents
A leaf from "Postille Majores Cum Questionibus", "a book of devotions for the whole year, with many marginal notes and 300 questions on the Scriptures", by Pierre Balli. It was printed by Balli at Lyons in 1525. This is an example of the devotional books issued during the 16th Century in France. The illustrative woodcuts and ornamental initials blend with the gothic type and is generally known as the lettre de forme. This leaf is marked as Fo. XXXIIII on the recto side.
Dates:
1525