Box 2
Container
Contains 101 Results:
Folder 16
File — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: Folder 16
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 16th century breviary
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: Item 16
Scope and Contents
From a 16th Century Breviary, with a miniature woodcut. The expertise of the xylographer shows in the accuracy of the woodcuts. The title and last pages of the book are missing, but even so the book can be attributed to the first half of the 16th century and is most likely the work of the Southern French press. On the page on the left, the recto side is marked 482. On the page on the right, the recto side is marked 44.
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE
Folder 17
File — Box: 2, Folder: 17
Identifier: Folder 17
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
Incunable page from Fasciculus mirre
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 17
Identifier: Item 17
Scope and Contents
An incunable page from a "Fasciculus mirre", Delft, Roelant Bollaert, circa 1500. It is a German work on the Life of Christ.
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE
Folder 18
File — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Identifier: Folder 18
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 Arbor Scientiae, 1505-08-22
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Identifier: Item 18
Scope and Contents
This leaf is from "Arbor Scientiae", by Raimond Lull. This volume has the colophon of a priest named Peter Posa and was printed in Barcelona, August 22, 1505.
Dates:
1505-08-22
Folder 19
File — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: Folder 19
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 Book of Sermones for the Use of the Clergy, 1509
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: Item 19
Scope and Contents
This leaf from a "Book of Sermones for the Use of the Clergy" was printed in 1509 in Hagenau, Germany. The title of this volume is "Panis Quotidianus" meaning "Daily Bread"
Dates:
1509
Folder 20
File — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Identifier: Folder 20
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 Commentaries on Boethius, 1512
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Identifier: Item 20
Scope and Contents
From the "Commentaries on Boethius", printed for Giangiacomo de Legnano and Brothers by Zanotus de Castelliono, at Milan in 1512.
Dates:
1512