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- Modern limp vellum binding, with two pairs of fastening vellum ties., Front cover of a processional containing music primarily for chants for the Temporale. Cover includes leather pegs for thongs attachment and the uneven pages of the fore-edge., and Country of production suggested by instructions in Spanish on recto and verso of f. 61; verso of first parchment guard leaf contains ownership inscription “Alfonso Lopez.” Stamp reading “Newberry Library” on f. 1 verso. Joint purchase by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
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- Eighteenth-century binding of smooth tawed leather over cardboard with three sewing support, green and white endbands, label in brown ink at head of spine reading “Semon | es Sancti | Ca’sarij.” Imprints and holes remaining on front and back cover from two ties, the traces of which are visible through paper pastedowns. Some concave warping of boards and discoloration and/or staining of cover and pastedowns. Paper bookplate on inner pastedown of the Bibliothèque du Plessis-Villoutreys including escutcheon with crown above and motto “Dis peu Fais mieux” below. Minor buckling in the first three leaves due to tight binding., Fore edge of a small miscellany of texts of various sermons which feature many marginal drawings and notae., and Written in several hands at the end of the 14th century or beginning of the 15th century in southern France, possibly Avignon, as suggested by the style of the initials, and to a lesser extend the script, which features some elements borrowed from the Papal Chancery, then in Avignon. Datable between 1369 (it includes a papal bull by Urban V (r. 1362-70) issued on 4 April 1369) and ca. 1400. Given the inclusion of the rule of St. Augustine and Hugh of St. Victor’s commentary on the Rule, the codex was likely made for one of the many groups of canons or monks who followed this Rule, including Augustinian Hermits (Agustin Friars), Dominicans, Praemonstratensians, Trinitarians, Regular Canons, and others. Evidence of the first sixteen sermons (ff. 1-80) by Clements VII link the manuscript to the Celestine priory established in 1392. A bookplate of the Bibliothèque du Plessis-Villoutreys indicates ownership by the Marquis de Villoutreys, probably in the last quarter of the 19th century. Possibly part of a private European Collection at some point. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collection from Les Enluminures (TM 992).
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- [1369 TO 1400]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Document folded six times., Front of a folded indenture (mortgage) between John and Elizabeth Raymond, Essex and Dorothy Collard of Barnstone, Essex for ₤350 to John and Elizabeth Raymond for conveyance of capital massuage, Chelmshoes house and barns, stables, dove house [etc.] and lands in great Maplest[de?] and Deetingthorp [sp?], Essex. Containing 66 acres. Name of John Richardson mentioned. Two red-wax, impressed seals (design not visible), each stamped on tags., Inscription in upper left, in a different hand, possibly contemporary: “15/18 [?] | Mr and Mrs Raymond | to | Mrs Collard} Release”., and Written in England, county of Essex and dated 25 August 2 James II. At middle center in the near-contemporary hand, “15/18 [?] | Mr and Mrs Raymond | to | Mrs Collard} Release” and three illgible words in a near contemporary hand followed by “1686.” Also at the middle center of dorse in a later hand: “9.” Gift of the Western Michigan University Department of History to Special Collections in 1999.
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- 1686-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Back of 1000 Rubles polychrome Russian bill. Russian State Duma (Parliament) building appears in the center
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- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Appointment book provided to the boys of the Hitler Youth in order to guide them through the various expectations of the program. Included inside was a calendar of important dates for the young men. Note the list of "Die Gefallenen der Hitler Jugend (The casualties of the Hitler Youth)" idolizing the young men who were a sacrifice for their homeland. Item viewed as a LUNA BookReader object. and Die Gefallenen der Hitler-Jugend -- Dieses Merkbuch gehört: -- Einführung -- Kalender für 1938-1939 -- Die Geschichte der Jugend Adolf Hitlers -- Das Gesetz über die Hitler-Jugend -- Die Organisation des Jahrgangsweisen Aufbaues -- Die Organisation der HJ -- Auszug aus der HJ-Dienstordnung -- Gliederung der Jugendführung des Deutschen Reichs und der Reichsjugendführung der NSDAP -- Die Leistungsabzeichen der Hitler-Jugend -- Die Mitgliederentwicklung der Hitler-Jugend -- Die Sondereinheiten der Hitler-Jugend -- Gliederungsplan eines Bannes der Hitler-Jugend -- Der Gesundheitsdienst der Hitler-Jugend -- Aufgaben und Ausbildung der Gesundheitsdienst-Mädel -- Die grosse Dienstanzug des Hitlerjungen -- Der grosse Dienstanzug des Jungvolkjungen -- Die allgemeine Bundestracht der BDM- und Jungmädel -- Die Dienstrangabzeichen der Hitler-Jugend -- Die Bücher für die Hitler-Jugend -- Gliederung und Aufbau der Hitler-Jugend -- Anschriften der HJ-Dienststellen -- Inhaltsverzeichnis:
- Date Created:
- 1938-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front view of the Administration Building and part of the Training School, Western State Normal School. Designed by Battle Creek architect, Ernest W. Arnold, the Administration Building was completed and occupied in 1905. Two wings the Training School and the Gymnasium, were added in 1909 and later were renamed East Hall.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Transient application card documenting relief requests and authorizations to the destitute by Transient Bureau of Kalamazoo County, under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, May 1933 - June 1943.
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- 1934-07-09T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
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- Sermon by Aelfric of Eynsham on the Eucharist. English and Anglo-Saxon on opposite pages. Attributed to Aelfric by STC (2nd ed.) “Imprinted at London by Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate beneath S. Martyns.”
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- Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- This portrait of an Indian prisoner of war was taken by a YMCA secretary in a German prison camp.
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- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Prisoners maintained pig stys along the perimeter fence between the compounds at Soltau. The POWs tended the pigs and other livestock to enhance the bland quality of their regular fare and increase their meat rations. The Allied naval blockade had a severe impact on the diversity of POW meals. The stys were located next to one compound's parade/athletic grounds and the road between the compounds. Note the guard towers in the background which were built to observe the barbed-wire fences.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries