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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.
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- 1553-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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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.
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- 1728-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This leaf is from The Book of Common Prayer. It was printed by John Baskerville, the printer to the University of Cambridge in 1762.
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- 1762-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- From the "Nüremburg Chronicle". It was printed in Nüremburg by Anton Koberger in 1493. The "Nüremburg Chronicle" contained over 300 leaves and about 1,900 woodcuts. The type is a modified Gothic that was commonly used with the Nüremburg printers. This ambitious publishing feat is known as the Picture Book of the Fifteenth Century. The recto side of the leaf is marked CCXXII in the upper right hand corner; the verso side is unmarked.
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- 1493-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This leaf is from "The Works of Virgil". It is in Latin and was printed by Andrew Foulis. This book has the imprint: Glasuuae; In Aedibu Academics; Excudebat Andreas Foulis, Academiae Typhographus, MDCCLXXVIII. The recto side has no page number while the verso side is marked as page number 4.
- Date Created:
- 1778-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A leaf from "A Digest of Civil Law" by Andrea Torresano of Asolo. The work demonstrates the Gothic type in its most picturesque form. Issued in 1491, it is an incunabula. The recto side of the leaf is marked LXII.
- Date Created:
- 1491-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- From "Historia De Gentibus Septentrionalibus", by Olaus Magnus, Archbishop of Upsala. The work was first printed in at Rome by Johannes Maria de Viottis. This leaf was published at Rome in 1555 and is from the original Latin edition. The recto side is page 51 and the verso side is page 52.
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- 1555-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This leaf is from a New Testament in Greek. It was issued by the house of Elzevir in 1678 at Amsterdam. The recto side of the page is marked as page number 407; the verso side is marked 408.
- Date Created:
- 1678-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- A leaf from The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was Printed in Philadelphia, 1792 by Parry Hall. The recto side of the page is marked as 215 and the verso side is marked 216.
- Date Created:
- 1792-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- An incunable page from a "Fasciculus mirre", Delft, Roelant Bollaert, ca. 1500. It is a German work on the Life of Christ.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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