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- This leaf is from an early legal manuscript; dating somewhere around 1280-1320. This original handwritten Folio leaf is of a very early codex of Canon law. The text is in double columns and is in the finest Gothic book hand of the period.
- Date Created:
- [1280 TO 1320]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
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- A leaf from the Fourth and last edition of the Mysterious Matthew's Bible, printed at London in 1551 by Nicholas Hyll. The recto side is marked as Fol. xxxix.
- Date Created:
- 1551-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- A leaf from the first printed translation in Irish of the Old Testament. The title page reads: "The books of the Old Testament, translated into Irish by the Care and Diligence of Doctor William Bedel, Late Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, and for the Publick Good of that Nation." It was printed in London, 1685. The recto side of the page is marked 573 and the verso side is marked as 574.
- Date Created:
- 1685-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- This leaf is from a Latin version of the Bible, and was printed by Hieronymus de Paganini at Venice in 1497.
- Date Created:
- 1497-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- This leaf is from "A New Collection of Voyages and Travels". It was a popular travel set that was typical of the type of commercial publishing that flourished before the end of the 18th Century. This was printed by Thomas Astley at London, in 1745. This travel set came from the library of Bayard Taylor. The recto side is marked as Vol. 4 Pl. 25 p. 145; the verso side is unmarked.
- Date Created:
- 1745-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- This leaf is from the "Hebrew Pentateuch". It was printed in four volumes by Pierre de la Roviere in Geneva, 1617-1618. On both sides the page is divided into two columns.
- Date Created:
- [1617 TO 1618]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- A leaf from a Latin version of the Bible, printed at Paris in 1558 by the heirs of Carola Guillard, relict of Claude Chevallon. This version was edited by Johannes Benedictus. The marginal notes show where the Latin is different from the original Hebrew and Greek, and also gives a more literal interpretations of words and phrases. The recto side of the leaf is marked as page 565; the verso side is marked 566.
- Date Created:
- 1558-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
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- A leaf from the Herball of John Gerard, a comprehensive medico-botanical treatise. Gerard was an English herbalist and surgeon who was born in the Sixteenth century. The first edition of this work was brought out in 1597. It was partly original, partly a compendium; the edition from which this leaf was taken was brought out in London, 1633 by Thomas Johnson. Some of the illustrations are original, although most were from the Icones Stirpium, issued at Frankfort in 1590 by Jacobus Tabernaemontanus. The recto side of the page is marked as 1087, and the verso side is marked as 1088.
- Date Created:
- 1633-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- A leaf from the "Chronicon of Sigebert of Gembloux", a mediaeval chronicler, printed by Henry Estienne (Henry Stephanus) in 1513 at Paris. The pages shown bear the unusual appearance of a Church calendar; there are rubrications, but also events and dates are divided into columns. This volume covered a time from 381 to 1111 A.D. The leaf is marked 126 on the recto side.
- Date Created:
- 1513-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- A leaf from the Fourth and last edition of the Mysterious Matthew's Bible, printed at London in 1551 by Nicholas Hyll. The recto side is marked as Fol. xxxi.
- Date Created:
- 1551-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
