Box 2
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 6
File — Box: 2, 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
Manuscript leaf from a 15th century breviary
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: Item 6
Scope and Contents
From a 15th Century Breviary Manuscript written by a monastic scribe, probably in the Low countries or in the Northern France, circa 1490. The blue initials used throughout the piece are made using encrusted lapis lazuli. The type is the typical Compact Gothic for all medieval breviaries.
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE