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Contains 101 Results:

Folder 31

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 31
Identifier: Folder 31
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 2

Leaf from Commentaries of Bartolus de Saxoferrato, 1521

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 31
Identifier: Item 31
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from the "Commentaries of Bartolus de Saxoferrato" covering the first and second parts of the new Digest of Laws. It also contains supplemental notes by other scholars. It was published by Jacob Saccon at Lyons in 1521. This is most likely the digest of laws from Emperor Justinian, and it forms the second part of the "Corpus Juris Civilis". The recto side of this leaf is marked 129.

Dates: 1521
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 2 / Folder 31

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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 2

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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 2 / Folder 32

Folder 33

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 33
Identifier: Folder 33
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 2

Leaf from Twelve Books of the Orations of Quintilian, 1527

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 33
Identifier: Item 33
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from the "Twelve Books of the Orations of Quintilian", with notes by different scholars based on the manuscript in the possession of Lorenzo Valla. This volume was printed by Pierre Vidoue and published by Jean Petit in 1527 at Paris. The recto side of this leaf is marked as Fo. xiv.

Dates: 1527
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 2 / Folder 33

Folder 34

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 34
Identifier: Folder 34
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 2

Leaf from Twelve Books of the Orations of Quintilian, 1527

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 34
Identifier: Item 34
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from the "Twelve Books of the Orations of Quintilian", with notes by different scholars based on the manuscript in the possession of Lorenzo Valla. This volume was printed by Pierre Vidoue and published by Jean Petit in 1527 at Paris. The recto side of this leaf is marked as Fo. lxcviii.

Dates: 1527
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 2 / Folder 34

Folder 35

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 35
Identifier: Folder 35
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 2

Leaf from Famous Theological Treatise of the Sixteenth Century, 1527

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 35
Identifier: Item 35
Scope and Contents

A leaf from a "Famous Theological Treatise of the Sixteenth Century"; it was the Text of the Opinions of master Pietrus Lombardus (Pierre Lombard). It was printed in 1527 by Jean Moylin at Lyons. The recto side of the leaf is marked fo. xci.

Dates: 1527
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 2 / Folder 35

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