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Box 2

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Contains 101 Results:

Folder 11

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: Folder 11
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 Infortiatum de Toris, 1495

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 11, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 11
Scope and Contents

From "Infortiatum de Toris"; a law book printed in 1495 by Baptista de Tortis in Venice. The paper probably came from the mills of the nearby cities of Padua or Treviso. The recto side of the leaflet is marked as 158.

Dates: 1495

Folder 12

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
Identifier: Folder 12
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 Gemma Vocabulorum, 1495

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 12, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 12
Scope and Contents

From "Gemma Vocabulorum", a composition of the Latin-Dutch vocabulary with explinations following the words. It was printed by R. Pafraet in Deventer, 1495. This volume was later bound to a 1488 dictionary.

Dates: 1495

Folder 13

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Identifier: Folder 13
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 Latin version of the Bible, 1497

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Identifier: Item 13
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from a Latin version of the Bible, and was printed by Hieronymus de Paganini at Venice in 1497.

Dates: 1497

Folder 14

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Identifier: Folder 14
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 First Illustrated edition of Horace, 1498

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Identifier: Item 14
Scope and Contents

A leaf from The First Illustrated edition of Horace, printed by John Gruninger at Straussburg in 1498. The small drawings of hands are used to indicate to the text notes, and small touches of red and blue were added by hand to lighten the manuscript. The recto side of this leaflet is marked as LXXVII.

Dates: 1498

Folder 15

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 15
Identifier: Folder 15
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

Koran manuscript leaf

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 15
Identifier: Item 15
Scope and Contents

A leaf from a Manuscript Koran, written in the style of caligraphy known as Naskhi. Although it contains no record of a date or place, it probably was from Egypt in the 16th century. It is written in Arabic.

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