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- This leaf is from a miniature Elzevir; the popular volume on France in the "Republic Series". It was printed in Leyden, 1626. The recto side of the page is marked 179 and the verso side is marked 180.
- Date Created:
- 1626-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- An Italian manuscript leaf from the Seventeenth Century by "Perlone Zipoli,". The name is an anagram under which Lorenzo Lippi hid his authorship. The recto side of the leaf has two paragraphs; the first marked 21, and the second marked 22. The verso side is similar; but the two paragraphs are marked 23 and 24.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Excised from a larger manuscript., 4-line initial in red and in the margin with bowed and rounded strokes; 1-line initials and rubrics in red; capitals touched in red; irregular text size; Cistercian puntus flexus and puntus elevatus punctuation throughout; cues in the inner margin of verso., A leaf from a 12th-century Cistercian Missal once owned by Otto Ege containing the prayers said at the altar as well as all that is officially read or sung in celebrating the Mass over the course of the ecclesiastical year. Text taken from John 20:11. The text opens with Mass for the Tuesday within the Octave of Easter, celebrated on April 10. While the use of multi-colored initials was banned by Cistercian statutes, the ban was widely ignored, and the punctus flexus punctuation found here is typical of books written for the Order., 1 column of 24 lines lead point or very light ink ruling written in formal angular Protogothic minuscule in brown ink. Script conforms to the earlier Carolingian minuscule, except that the shapes have become slightly compressed and angular and developed little hooked feet. However the letters are well separated and have not evolved into the rows of minims of fully developed Gothic script. Text written above the top line. Prickings in inner margins. The number “40” written in pencil on top corner of recto., and Owned by Otto Ege who broke up the book. Since the style was imitated in monasteries throughout Europe, it can be very difficult to localise; Ege himself took this manuscript to be Spanish, but the Missal is now thought to be either south German or, more probably, Austrian. The parent manuscript included on f.105v an added Mass for St Robert of Molesmes, co-founder of Cîteaux, canonised in 1222. The parent manuscript (with 173 leaves and 13 large initials) was no 17 in the c.1928 auction catalogue of EMIL HIRSCH (1866-1954), which likely orginate from the Hohenfurth / Vyšší Brod monastery. Peter Kidd points out that Hirsch also owned two other manuscripts now at the British Library, both from Cistercian houses in southern Germany or Austria, one of which may have been written in 1191 for the Abbey of Wilhering, west of Linz.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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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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- This leaf is from "The Fables of Aesop". The designs of wood were by Thomas Bewick. It was printed in Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1823 by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son. The recto side of the leaf is page 271.
- Date Created:
- 1823-01-01T00:00:00Z
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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., One 2-line intial "E" in gold on a ground of blue with white penwork and trailing ornamental swags; running head of recto "chiel" and and verso "exe.", Fourteenth century manuscript from the Bohun family bible. Text is from Ezekiel 13:22 - 14:16., 2 columns of 22 lines ruled in red ink written in bold textualis formata, pricking along top and lower and the outer margins., and According to Christopher de Hamel, the manuscript was owned in Cheshire soon after the Reformation, probably to the Carmelite house there, because of an illumination of a Carmelite friar as well as liturgical readings from throughout Ezekiel (a Carmelite practice). Later owned by Sir Peter Leycester (d. 1678), mentioned in his book catalogue (Cheshire Record Office DLT / B88). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library, from the Les Enluminures.
- Date Created:
- [1350 TO 1360]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- From the New York Mirror and Ladies' Literary Gazette, the Seventh Volume. It was printed in New York by J. Seymore in 1829 and 1830. The recto side of the page has no page number; the verso side is marked as page 90.
- Date Created:
- 1829-09-26T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- This leaf is from "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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- Pages from the Past
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- Edges browning and cracked where the cutting was folded. Small scuffs and stains. Text trimmed away on upper, outer and lower edges., 2-line initial in red with faded blue pen florishes extending into the margin. Ink flaking from recto. Remnant of a single red rubric on recto., Small cutting with the remant of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies, beginning at Liber 2, section 21, on the figures of words and expressions (De figuris verborum et setentiarum). The Etymologies (also called the Origins) is divided into 20 books concerning a subject-area., and 1 column with the remains of 26 lines ruled in dark red ink written in Protogothic script.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A leaf from Phaedri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Most of the engravings were done by J. V. Vianen, and the notes and Dutch translation were by David Hoogstraten. It was printed in Amsterdam, 1701 by Francis Halma. Note the fine copper engravings. The recto side is page 89 and the verso side is page 90.
- Date Created:
- 1701-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
