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- From a "Los Virtuosos Varones", author unknown. This Portuguese manuscript is on the nobility of the Portuguese aristocracy, ca. 1450. The recto side of the leaf is marked 63.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- From the "Propositions of Aristotle", a book of excerpts in Latin. Printed by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis at Venice in 1493. A note on the last page says that the book was brought out at the expense of Alexander Calcedonius of Pisaurum. This work shows one of the first documented instances of publisher's copyright. The Recto side is marked as 198.
- Date Created:
- 1493-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Excised from a larger manuscript. Housed in a mat frame (255 x 205 mm) with dealer’s prospectus on back of the mat frame., 1-line illuminated initial on a ground of blue with a rinceaux design in blue and red extending into the margin. Rubricated in red. 1-line intials alternating red and blue with contrasting pen flourishes in red or blue. On recto, text of the first line rubric has faded completely. Large initial "D" on recto opens a prayer. Prickings in the inner margin., Leaf from a Book of Hours with text opening to devotional prayers petitioning for Saint Anthony’s intercession., 1 column of 15 lines ruled in red ink written in Northern Textualis Gothic script. Change of hands on verso., and Purchased from Boyd Mackus of the Mackus Company, Springfield, Illinois, by Western Michigan University Special Collections, (M3404E).
- Date Created:
- [1500 TO 1599]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A leaf from Portraits et Vies des Hommes Illustres, par André Thevet, Angoumoysin (of Angoulême), Premier Cosmograph du Roy. It was printed on the press of Kervert and Chaudiére, Paris, 1584. While the large initial letter was probably a cut from wood, the larger engraving was done on copper. The recto side of this leaf is marked as page 382; the verso side has no page number.
- Date Created:
- 1584-01-01T00:00:00Z
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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 Works of Shakespeare" and was printed and published at Philadelphia, 1796 by Bioren and Madan. The version was the first edition to be brought out on the North American Continent. The recto side is page 397 and the verso side is page 398.
- Date Created:
- 1796-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- A leaf from "Las Quatorze Decadas de Tito Livio", a typographical setting for a Spanish translation of Livy. This volume was printed by George Coci at Saragossa in 1520. The recto side of this leaf is marked as Fo. CCXIII.
- Date Created:
- 1520-01-01T00:00:00Z
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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 "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.
- Date Created:
- 1521-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- From "In Psalterium Expositio", consisting of a commentary on the Psalms by Cassiodorus, a high official under Theodoric and his successor Athalaric. This volume is from the press of Johann de Amerbach and due to the date of its printing (1491), it is considered an incunabula. The recto side of the leaf is marked LV. The verso side has no page number.
- Date Created:
- 1491-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- A leaf from "Las Quatorze Decadas de Tito Livio", a typographical setting for a Spanish translation of Livy. This volume was printed by George Coci at Saragossa in 1520. The recto side of this leaf is marked as Fo. CCLXVIII.
- Date Created:
- 1520-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Leaf was excised from a larger manuscript., On recto: in the middle of outer column there is a single five-line initial "h" in blue with red penwork details infilled with blue and red pen florishes, and red and blue decorations trailing up and down the column. Larger versal initials are sometimes tipped in ochre wash. Above the initial, running head "TE" alternating red and blue. On verso: The running head "DEV" (Deuteronomy) appears at the top of the page. Minor cuts to the outer edges of the leaf., Manuscript leaf from a Bible written in Latin during the 13th century, containing text from Deuteronomy 5:22-6:25., 2 column of 33 lines, ruled in plummet in Littera Gothica Textualis Formata with lateral compression., and Flanders or South Netherlands, possibly Tournai. Probably broken by Erich von Scherling (Scherling, 102; History of Western Script, 55). Von Sherling’s source seems to have been a bound fragment of leaves from Leviticus 3 to Judges 2. It must have been volume 1 of a 4 volume Bible, of which, 2-3 appear to be Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS II.2523, and volume 4 may be Los Angles, J. Paul Getty Museum MS Ludwig 1.9. The Brussels volumes had belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps, who bought them in the late 1820s with the residue of the library of St Martin in Tournai, noting ruefully that the first volume had been sold in his absence and “destroyed by a bookseller at Brussels” (Phillipps, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum, 1837, entry for MS 2011; A. N. L. Munby, Phillips Studies, III, 1954, 22, n. 1; C. de Hamel in Migrations, Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand, ed. Hollis and Barratt, 2007, 42-3). The first item in the catalogue of St Martin’s abbey in Tournai in 1615 was ‘Biblia 4. Voluminibus” (Sanderus, Bibliotheca Belgica Manuscripta, 1, 1641, p. 91). The leaf was eventually sold by Swann Galleries (New York, 22 March 1990) as part of lot 75 to the celebrated manuscript collector, Martin Schøyen, in whose collection it was catalogued as Schøyen MS 82 (History of Western Scripts, 102).
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
