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- From "Hortus Sanitatis", a compilation of mediaeval lore about the therapeutic properties of animal, vegetable and mineral substances. "Hortus Sanitatis" was a generic name for books of this type; this version by Johann von Cube of Frankfort was a compilation of two others with the same title that were published at Mainz in 1491. This edition by Cube was brought out by Reinhard Beck at Strassburg in 1517.
- Date Created:
- 1491-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A leaf from Ovid's "Metamorphoses". It was printed by Joan Gryphius in Venice, 1565. The recto side of the leaf is page 167 and the verso is page 168.
- Date Created:
- 1565-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This leaf is from the "Cornucopia of Nicholas Perottus" and is a commentary on the Epigrams of Martial, with a collection of other ancient authors. Printed in 1513 in Venice, from the Aldine press.
- Date Created:
- 1513-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Excised from a larger manuscript; prickings visible along the outer edges; binding holes along the inner margins., A 3-line initial in red and blue with pen flourishes, two 2-line initials alternating red and blue with contrasting pen flourishes; some initial letters touched in yellow and two letters extending into upper margin with ornamental cadels; small stains to edge, with slight affect to penwork of uppermost initial., A leaf from a Censier, a book of rents owed to the lordship of La Chapelle, with three entries., 1 column of ruled for 30 long lines in a Northern Textualis Gothic script, with 6 original lines or entries on recto, and nine on the verso; nine further near-contemporary lines added to the second entry on the recto in a similar hand., and It may have been produced as the personal copy of the seigneur. The site is likely to be identifiable as La Chapelle-Gaceline (Morbihan) in Brittany. The place-names, Caro, Le Tay and perhaps also La Gaial (perhaps La Gacilly), point to the immediate surrounds of La Chapelle-Gaceline.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Leaf excised from a larger manuscript. Modern number "8" in pencil on the top recto; two small white fabric tags from the last mounting., On verso: extended descender in the last line. On recto: capitals set off in margins., Leaf containing a selection work written by the historian Titus Livius beginning in book 25, detailing the siege of Syracuse. Script is attributed to Giacomo Curlo., 1 column of 24 ines in blind ruling written in Humanist minuscule., and Owed and dismembered by Otto Ege (1888-1951). The parent text of the leaf acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1985.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- From the King James Bible, the epochal, English Protestant translation, or Authorized Version This is the famous "He" Bible where instead of saying "she", in Ruth iii 15, it says "and He went into the city". It was printed by Robert Barker in London, England in 1611.
- Date Created:
- 1611-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This leaf is from a German Manuscript. It is an anti-Catholic theological diatribe that was signed by five Protestant pastors and dated April 3rd, 1551.
- Date Created:
- 1551-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- This leaf is from the "Sermons of John Calvin", and was translated from French by Arthur Golding. It was printed by Henry Middleton for George Bishop in London, 1583. The recto side of this leaf is numbered as page 817; the verso is page 818.
- Date Created:
- 1583-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- A leaf from "The History of His Own Times", by Paulus Jovius, Bishop of Nocera. It was printed by Michael Vascosanus in Paris, 1553. Typographically it is an excellent example of the clear roman type developed by Parisian printers at that particular time. The recto side is marked as page 61; the verso side is unmarked.
- Date Created:
- 1553-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- A leaf from the Sonnets of Anton Maria Salvini. It was issued in Florence 1728, by the press of H. R. H. The Grand Duke of Tuscany. The recto side of the leaf is marked 81 and the verso side is marked as 82.
- Date Created:
- 1728-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
