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- This leaf is from "Nova Legenda Angliae", a collection of the legends of the English saints. It was printed at "the Flete Strete" London in 1516 from the press of Wynkyn de Worde. The recto side of this leaf is marked as Folio. cliiii.
- Date Created:
- 1516-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- From Dryden's translation, The Works of Virgil, published by Jacob Tonson in 1697 at London. The poetry is set in Roman type on a page with wide margins. The recto side is marked 307 and the verso side is marked 308.
- Date Created:
- 1697-01-01T00:00:00Z
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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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- From the "Saturnalia of Macrobius", "A new edition diligently revised and purged of infinitive errors" by Joannes Rivius. It was printed for Lucantnio Giunta by Agostino de Zanni de Portesio at Venice in 1513. The recto side of this leaf is marked LXXXV.
- Date Created:
- 1513-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- From the First Edition of "Dr. Johnson's Dictionary". The full title is: "Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from Best Writers. To which are prefixed, A History of the Language, and an English Grammar, by Samuel Johnson, A.M. In Two Volumes. Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawkes; A. Millar; and J. Dodsley. MDCCLV."
- Date Created:
- 1755-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- From a Bruce Rogers Folio, this leaf is from a limited edition of Sir Thomas More's "Utopia", printed in New York at the Rudge Press. The recto side is marked 21 and has a definition of lewd in the margin. The verso side is marked as page 22. Only 1500 copies were printed in 1937. This is an English translation of More's work.
- Date Created:
- 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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.
- Date Created:
- 1505-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A leaf from William Camden's "Annalles of Elizabeth", or more accurately from Darcie's translation from a French translation from the Latin of Camden's original work. It was printed for Benjamin Fisher in 1625, in London. The body of the page is roman type, using italics as an accessory. Though it was printed a quarter of a century after Queen Elizabeth's death, the book has an Elizabethan flair to it. This leaf is marked 127 on the recto side and 128 on the verso side.
- Date Created:
- 1625-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
