Box 2
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 8
File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Identifier: Folder 8
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 A Digest of Civil Law, 1491
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 8
Scope and Contents
A leaf from "A Digest of Civil Law" by Andrea Torresano of Asolo. The work demonstrates the gothic type in its most picturesque form. Issued in 1491, it is an incunabula. The recto side of the leaf is marked LXII.
Dates:
Issued: 1491