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- A leaf from the "Justinian Code", Ex Officina Vignoniana in St. Gervais near Paris, 1602. The leaf has two columns per page; each column is marked with a page number. The recto side has the columns marked as 81 and 82; the verso side has columns marked as 83 and 84.
- Date Created:
- 1602-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- On recto, correction in the margin., Small cut in corner. Pencil marking in Arabic number possibly indicating folio 38. Worm hole in lower margin., Text is from Book II, the arguments against Epicureanism, paragraphs 30-31., 1 column of 28 lines ruled in plummet written in Italian Humanistic book hand., and Possibly owned by Otto Ege who broke up the book.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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.
- Date Created:
- [1500 TO 1550]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- This leaf is from a Latin Manuscript containing the "Sermones" of Simon de Cremona, and was prepared in Buxheim in the Scriptorium of the Carthusian monastery. The scribe was Caspar Misnensis.
- Date Created:
- 1434-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- Traces of earlier sewing slits appear in the middle margin, along the fold of the bifolium, possibily from the original binding. “Framed sometime before 1979, removed from frame 5-21-2010.” --from dealer description., On f. 1v, 5 line illuminated inital “B” on a field of gold, enclosing white floral pattern on a field of blue. Illumintated three-quarter border with sprays of light brown ivy and bezants on hairline stems and with fruit and flowers forms. Gold flaking from initial and bezants. Single line initials in gold and blue throughout text. Rubricated in red. On f. 1r and f. 2v, 2 line initial in blue., One bifolum from a Book of Hours in Dutch featuring illuminated marginal decoration and initial., 1 column of 18 lines ruled in drypoint and written in gothic texutalis libraria. Pricking in outer margins., and Produced in Flanders in the 15th century. Sticker on the back of frame readers “The Bonfoey Co... Clevelend, O.” Loaned to WMU Library School through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974, and now permanently held by Special Collections.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This leaf is from “A Guide to Tongues” by John Minsheu, and is said to be the first Comparative Linguistic Dictionary, brought out in England and apparently the first book ever sold by subscription in advance. This dictionary is compiled of eleven languages. It was printed at the charges of the author for John Browne, "Bibliopola", a bookseller, London, 1617. The recto side of this leaf is page 21; the verso side is page 22.
- Date Created:
- 1617-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
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- A leaf from Parliamentary Acts that were passed during the reign of William III of England. It was printed by the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb. They were printers to His Majesty, in 1695-1698 in London. The recto side of the page is marked as 737, and the verso side is marked as 738.
- Date Created:
- [1695 TO 1698]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- From Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible, published at Wittenberg in 1584 by the heirs of Hans Krafft. This version of the Bible is as famous in Germany as the King James Version is in England. The type-face used in this printing is known as "Franktur." The recto side is marked as page 215 but the verso side has no page numbers.
- 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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- From Ovid's "Fasti", a poem on Roman feasts and festivals. This volume was published by Alexander Paganini in 1527 in Tusculanum (Italy). This leaf is marked cxciii on the recto side.
- Date Created:
- 1527-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- This is a manuscript leaf from a Seventeenth Century Spanish Antiphonary. This manuscript was purchased in Seville. The recto side of the leaf is marked as 104; the verso side has no page number.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
