History of the Written Word: Pages from the Past, 2400 BCE-1920 CE

Collection of History of the Written Word: Pages from the Past, 2400 BCE-1920 CE, at the Lilly Library, Indiana University

Finding aid created by Ava Dickerson

Creator: Society of Foliophiles
Title: History of the Written Word: Pages from the Past
Collection No.: Z4 .H58
Dates: 2400 BCE-1920 CE
Quantity:

Quantity: 1 linear foot

Quantity: 4 volumes

Abstract: The History of the Written Word: Pages from the Past, 2400 BCE-1920 CE, consist of a collection of original leaves from rare books and manuscripts in limited portfolio sets.
Language: Egyptian (Ancient) , Sumerian , Portuguese , Latin , Hebrew , Arabic , Greek, Ancient (to 1453) , German , English , Spanish; Castilian , French , Dutch; Flemish , Italian , Greek, Modern (1453-) , Persian .
Repository: Lilly Library
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500
Business Number: 812-855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu
URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library

Biographical Note

The Society of Foliophiles formed in the early 1920's to discuss special collections and book collecting. In an attempt to make collecting more financially attainable, the Society began to collect manuscript leaves and fragments and assemble them into thematic portfolios for sale.

Scope and Contents

The set includes examples of early printed leaves, manuscript leaves, as well as a Babylonian clay tablet and cylinder seal, Egyptian papyri, etc. Each leaf is mounted on a black sheet of heavy paper (51 x 33 cm.). Leaves are housed in four black leather, drop-front clamshell cases.

"This is collection no. ... in Portfolio Set I: History of the Written Word: Only 20 numbered sets have been issued. When this edition is completed, it obviously ends this series for all time"--limitation leaf (laid-in volume 1).

Lilly Library's set numbered 14 and signed by Foliophiles director, Alfred Stites, on the limitation leaf Lilly Library's copy lacking the prospectus with descriptive table of contents.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged roughly chronologically.

Restrictions

Conditions Governing Access:

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Indexed Terms

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item], History of the Written Word: Pages from the Past, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Acquisition information unknown

Collection Inventory

Volume 1
Title sheet with wax stamp and limitation statement , undated
Volume 1
Babylonian clay tablet with cuneiform characters , ca. 2500 BCE
Volume 1
Babylonian cylinder seal with Sumerian inscription; accompanied by a portion of clay which shows the inscription in relief , ca. 1700 BCE
Volume 1
Egyptian scarab with hieroglyphics. Accompanied by a portion of clay which shows sign of the scarab in relief , ca. 1000 BCE
Volume 1
Fragment of an Egyptian papyrus, Book of the Dead , 18th to 20th Dynasty, approx. 1500-1100 BCE
Volume 1
Leaf from a manuscript Koran, probably Egyptian in origin , most likely of the 16th century
Volume 1
Vellum leaf, Officium Beate Marie Virginis, by an Italian scribe , 12th century
Volume 1
Leaf from Los Virtuosos Varones, a Portuguese manuscript on the nobility of the Portuguese aristocracy , ca. 1450
Volume 1
Leaf (S4) from Infortiatum de Tortis, a large, very beautiful law book printed by Baptista de Tortis in Venice, type is bold gothic , 1495

Physical Description: 42 x 28 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf from a rare breviary (called "Portiforium," or handbook) adapted to the distinctive service of Salisbury Cathedral. Printed in London by John Kyngston and Henry Sutton , 1555

Physical Description: 22 x 16 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf from a Hebrew Bible. The books of the Major Prophets, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings, printed in Hebrew by Robert Estienne (or Stephanus), son and successor of the more famous Henri Estienne, at Paris , 1544

Physical Description: 25 x 18 cm.

Volume 1
Fragment from an Arabic papyrus , 800-900
Volume 1
Fragment from a Greek papyrus , ca. 100 BCE-100 CE
Volume 1
Leaf from Fascuculus Mirre, Delft, Roelant Bollaert , ca. 1500
Volume 1
Vellum leaf from the Dutch Book of Hours , written in the middle of the 15th century

Physical Description: 15 x 11 cm.

Volume 1
Vellum manuscript leaf from a German religious work, written in an upright, careful gothic German , ca. 1450

Physical Description: 15 x 11 cm.

Volume 1
Vellum leaf (Fi) from a printed Book of Hours, probably French in origin (with woodblock border and hand-painted blue, red and gold initial letters) , 1525

Physical Description: 16 x 8 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf from Vocabularius Praedicantium sire Variloguus, printed in Strassburg by Georg Hasner , 1488

Physical Description: 20 x 14 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf from the Nüremberg Chronicle, printed by Anton Koberger , 1493

Physical Description: 43 x 30 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf from De Imitatione Christi of Thomas A Kempis, printed by Caspar Hochfeder at Nüremberg , 1494

Physical Description: 30 x 22 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf (I) from In Psalterium Expositio, by Cassiodorus , 1491

Physical Description: 29 x 21 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf from the Chronicarum Supplementum of Jacobus Philippus Bergomensis (Foresti), an Augustinian friar; printed by Bernadinus de Benaliis, at Venice , 1486

Physical Description: 32 x 22 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf (C4) from the Opus Trivium, by Jean (John) Bromyard, an English theologian. Printed by Nicolas Wolff at Lyons , 1500

Physical Description: 20 x 13 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf (2[rum]3) from A Digest of Civil Law, by Andrea Torresano of Asolo , 1491

Physical Description: 43 x 29 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf from The Propositions of Aristotle, a book of excerpts in Latin from the writings of Aristotle. Printed in Venice by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis , 1493

Physical Description: 22 x 16 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf (O2) from Gemma Vocabulorum, printed in Deventer by R. Pafraet , 1495

Physical Description: 21 x 14 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf (ii2) from a Latin version of the Bible, printed in Venice by Hieronymus de Paganini , 1497

Physical Description: 16 x 12 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf (FF4) from the first illustrated edition of Horace, printed by John Gruninger in Strassburg , 1498

Physical Description: 31 x 21 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf (e2) from Stultefera Navis, the Latin version of the famous satirical German poem, Das Narrenschiff, or Ship of Fools, by Sebastian Brant; printed by Bergman von Olpe at Basle , 1498

Physical Description: 21 x 15 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf from Biblia Latina, an incunable work printed in Venice by Reynsburch and Novimagio , 1478

Physical Description: 32 x 21 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf (p. 39) from Fasciculus Temporum, an early outline of history from the creation of the world to about 1480, by Werner Rollewinck; this leaf is from the 5th edition of Erhard Ratdolt, which he brought out in Venice , 1485

Physical Description: 32 x 22 cm.

Volume 1
Leaf from Postilla Super Psalterium, Hugo de Sancto Caro; printed in Nüremberg by Anthoni Koberger , 1498

Physical Description: 33 x 22 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (r3) from Arbor Scientiae, by Raimond Lull; Barcelona. Includes some ms notes , 1505, August 22

Physical Description: 29 x 21 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (d2) from the Chronicon of Sigebert of Gembloux; printed by Henri Estienne (Henry Stephanus) at Paris , 1513

Physical Description: 22 x 16 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (L) from Aeneis Vergiliana, printed by Jacobus Sacon of Lyons , 1517

Physical Description: 33 x 22 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf from the Commentaries on Boetius, printed by Zanotus de Castelliono for Giangiacomo de Legnano and Brothers, booksellers, at Milan , 1512

Physical Description: 26 x 18 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf from a German manuscript-an interesting anti-Catholic theological diatribe signed by five Protestant pastors , 1551, April 3

Physical Description: 22 x 16 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (at top right: Fol. X) from the fourth and last edition of the mysterious Matthew's Bible, printed by Nicholas Hyll at London , 1551

Physical Description: 32 x 21 cm.

Volume 2
Another leaf (at top of page: The Epistle) from the fourth and last edition of the mysterious Matthew's Bible, printed by Nicholas Hyll at London , 1551

Physical Description: 32 x 21 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (N2) from Hortus Sanitatis, this particular version by Johann von Cube of Frankfort being a compilation of two others bearing the same title and published at Mainz , 1491

Physical Description: 32 x 20 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (O2) from Fasciculus Mirre, Delft, Roelant Bollaert , ca. 1500

Physical Description: 14 x 9 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (F) from Dante's Divine Comedy, with the commentary of Christoforo Landino, printed by Jacob del Burgofranco of Pavia for Lucantonio Giunta, at Venice , 1529

Physical Description: 29 x 21 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf from Biblia Picturis Illustrata; printed in Paris by Pierre Regnault , 1540

Physical Description: 19 x 12 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (Z3) from a famous theological treatise of the 16th century, being the Text of the Opinions of Master Pietrus Lombardus; printed by Jean Moylin at Lyons , 1527

Physical Description: 18 x 13 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (P4) from The Twelve Books of the Orations of Quintilian; printed by Pierre Vidoue and published by Jean Petit at Paris , 1527

Physical Description: 34 x 22 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (C3) from The Twelve Books of the Orations of Quintilian; printed by Pierre Vidoue and published by Jean Petit at Paris , 1527

Physical Description: 34 x 22 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (C4) from Postille Majores cum Questionibus, by Pierre Balli; printed by him at Lyons , 1525

Physical Description: 26 x 17 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf from The Commentaries of Bartolus de Saxoferrato on the first and second parts of the new Digest of Laws with supplemental notes by other scholars. Published at Lyons by Jacob Saccon , 1521

Physical Description: 39 x 28 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (S2) from Nova Legenda Angliae, from the press of Wynkyn de Worde, printed at "the Flete Strete," London , 1516

Physical Description: 28 x 19 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (p. 144) from a collection of minor classical authors; printed by Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano at Venice , 1516

Physical Description: 31 x 21 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (S3) from Las Quatorze Decadas de Tito Livio; printed at Saragossa by George Coci , 1520

Physical Description: 28 x 19 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (p. 323) from Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia Universalis; printed by Heinrich Petri at Basle , 1559

Physical Description: 31 x 21 cm.

Volume 2
Another leaf from the Commentaries on Boetius, printed by Zanotus de Castelliono for Giangiacomo de Legnano and Brothers, booksellers, at Milan , 1512

Physical Description: 26 x 18 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (A4) from the Saturnalia of Macrobius, by Joannes Rivius; printed by Agostino de Zanni de Portesio for Lucantonio Giunta at Venice , 1513

Physical Description: 31 x 21 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf from The Cornucopia of Nicholas Perottus; printed at Venice, Aldine press , 1513

Physical Description: 31 x 21 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (E2) from Tabulae Eclypsium; printed by Johannes Winterburger at Vienna , 1514

Physical Description: 31 x 20 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (Eee, p. 877) from Works of Josephus, Basle, Jerome Froben , 1554

Physical Description: 33 x 21 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (FF3, p. 338) from Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus, by Olaus Magnus, Archbishop of Upsala; this leaf is from the original Latin edition, published at Rome , 1555

Physical Description: 27 x 20 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (Ee.v., p. 802) from a Latin version of the Bible, printed by the heirs of Carola Guillard, relict of Claude Chevallon, at Paris , 1558

Physical Description: 37 x 25 cm.

Volume 2
Another leaf (PP5, p. 914) from Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia Universalis; printed by Heinrich Petri at Basle , 1559

Physical Description: 31 x 21 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (D1) from An English Book of Laws, printed by Rycharde Jugge and John Cawood, at London , 1559

Physical Description: 27 x 20 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (Q2, p. 230) from The History of His Own Times, by Paulus Jovius, Bishop of Nocera, printed by Michael Vascosanus at Paris , 1553

Physical Description: 34 x 22 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (C, p. 33) from "Commentariorum in Ordinationes Regias Castellae," a Spanish law book containing a compilation of the ordinances of Castile; printed in the shop of Dominicus à Portonariis at the expense of Vincentius à Portonariis, Salamanca , 1574

Physical Description: 28 x 19 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (p. 153) from the so-called "Liber Sextus" of Pope Boniface VIII; this leaf is from the edition printed at Venice , 1572

Physical Description: 24 x 18 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (N2, p. xcv) from a book of services for the Christmas, Holy Week, &c., with musical accompaniment, published by Matthias Gastius at Salamanca , 1570

Physical Description: 23 x 16 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (p. 157) from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," printed by Joan. Gryphius in Venice , 1565

Physical Description: 30 x 20 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (p. 86) from a work on Euclid by Nicholas Tartalea; the author's last, revised edition, printed by Curtio Troiano in Venice , 1565

Physical Description: 21 x 15 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (p. 83) from "A Catholike and Ecclesiasticall Exposition of the Holy Gospell after S. John," translated by Thomas Timme. Printed in London, by Thomas Marshe , 1575

Physical Description: 30 x 20 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (p. 95) from Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes," translated, out of the French version of Bishop Amyot, by Sir Thomas North; printed by Thomas Vautrollier at London , 1579

Physical Description: 31 x 22 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf from a Roman missal, issued in accordance with the decrees of the famous Council of Trent, and printed by the heirs of Lucantonio di Giunta at Venice , 1576

Physical Description: 17 x 12 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (Bb3) from the life of Jesus Christ, translated into Dutch from the Latin of Ludolphus of Saxony, a Carthusian monk, and printed by Peter van Ghelen at Antwerp , 1618

Physical Description: 28 x 18 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf from a French liturgical ms , ca. 1500

Physical Description: 19 x 13 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf from a breviary (includes some ms notes) , 16th century

Physical Description: 14 x 10 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (L2, p. 58) from Polybius, his complete history, a work by the author Polybius, and printed at Haganau by printer Johannem Secerium , 1530

Physical Description: 28 x 20 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (Ooo3) from De Aquitilibus, Historiae Animalium, by Gessner, printed at Zurich by Fraschover , 1555

Physical Description: 37 x 24 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (K4, p. 151) from the first edition of the first Latin Bible to be printed in England, the Biblia Sacra; printed by Henry Middleton , 1580

Physical Description: 22 x 16 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (p. 70-71) from History of Religious Orders of the early 1600's. Printed by Menier in Paris, being the second edition , 1680

Physical Description: 23 x 17 cm.

Volume 2
Leaf (p. 128) from "A Guide to Tongues," by John Minsheu. Printed at the charges of the author for John Browne, Bookseller, London , 1617

Physical Description: 40 x 25 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 1110) from The Herball of John Gerard; printed by Thomas Johnson in London , 1633

Physical Description: 35 x 22 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 7) from A Display of Heraldrie, by John Guillim, printed at London by Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome , 1638

Physical Description: 27 x 19 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf Nnn1 from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, printed at Oxford, by John Lichfield , 1632

Physical Description: 28 x 19 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 311) from an Italian manuscript, by Theodorus Amydenius, a lawyer in the Roman Curia , written about the middle of the 17th century

Physical Description: 32 x 22 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 165?) from a Spanish antiphonary, typical of the Catholic choir books of that period, particularly in Spain , 17th century

Physical Description: 40 x 28 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf from an Italian manuscript, by "Perlone Zipoli," a transparent anagram under which Lorenzo Lippi, the well-known painter, chose to hide his authorship , 17th century

Physical Description: 26 x 19 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 59) from the Workes of Benjamin Jonson, printed by Richard Bishop at London , 1640

Physical Description: 29 x 18 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (N4) from a book of rituals of the Anglican Church, printed at London by Robert Barker , 1639

Physical Description: 28 x 18 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf from the New World of Words, collected and published by Edward Phillips and printed by W.R. for Robert Harford at London , 1678

Physical Description: 32 x 20 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 27) from the Holy Bible, Or "Biblia Sacra" Vulgate Editionis, edited by Popes Sextus V and Clemens VIII; printed in Venice by Pezzana , 1669

Physical Description: 27 x 18 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 784) from Numisatum Antiquorum, an illustrated work by Ezechiel Spanhemius, printed by Daniel Elsiver at Amsterdam , 1671

Physical Description: 24 x 20 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 493) from the Iconologia of Cesare Ripa of Perugia, with amplifications by Giovanni Zaratino Castellini, printed by Niccolo Pezzana at Venice , 1669

Physical Description: 23 x 17 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 86) from Estatutos Generales de Barcelona, a book of religious statutes, brought out in Mexico, by Pedro Ocharte , 1585

Physical Description: 19 x 15 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 598) from Portraits et Vies des Hommes Illustres, par André Thevet; from the press of Kervert and Chaudiére, Paris , 1584

Physical Description: 37 x 25 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. [192]) from Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible, published by the heirs of Hans Krafft at Wittenberg , 1584

Physical Description: 37 x 25 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 789) from the sermons of John Calvin, translated from the French by Arthur Golding; printed by Henry Middleton for George Bishop, London , 1583

Physical Description: 28 x 19 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf from the King James Bible; printed by Robert Barker, London , 1611

Physical Description: 41 x 27 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (S2) from a New Testament in Greek, issued by the house of Elzevir at Amsterdam , 1678

Physical Description: 20 x 16 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 256) from the New Testament in English printed by Daniel Vervliet at Antwerp , 1600

Physical Description: 22 x 17 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (Aij1) from Anatome Corporis Humani, by Joanne Valverdo, an Italian translation from the author's original manual in Spanish; from the Giunta Press and published at Venice , 1586

Physical Description: 30 x 22 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 353/354) from the "Justinian Code," Ex Officina Vignoniana in St. Gervais, near Paris , 1602

Physical Description: 40 x 26 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf I1 from The Four Bookes of Husbandry, collected by Conrad Heresbach and translated by Barnaby Googe. "Imprinted at London for Thomas Wight, dwelling in Paules Churchyarde, Anno Domini, 1596"

Physical Description: 19 x 14 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (C3) from "A Guide to Tongues," by John Minsheu. Printed at the charges of the author for John Browne, Bookseller, London , 1617

Physical Description: 40 x 25 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (C2) from the first King James Bible in a popular edition. Printed and published by Robert Barker, the King's printer, London , 1612

Physical Description: 22 x 16 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (R3) from Book of European Travels, written by George Sandys, the well-known translator of Ovid in London , 1615

Physical Description: 28 x 18 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (K1) from Hieroglyphica, by the Reverend Archibald Simson, a Scottish preacher, and was brought out at Edinburgh by Thomas Finlason, printer to His Majesty , 1622/1623

Physical Description: 19 x 15 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 98) from the Hebrew Pentateuch, printed in four volumes by Pierre de la Roviere in Geneva , 1617/1618

Physical Description: 22 x 17 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (Gg3) from Willliam Camden's "Annalles of Elizabeth," or rather from Darcie's translation from a French translation of Camden's original work, which was written in Latin. Printed for Benjamin Fisher in London , 1625

Physical Description: 23 x 17 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 83) from an Irish law book, containing the Statutes of Ireland from the reign of King Edward up to and including part of that of James I. Printed by the Society of Stationers at Dublin , 1621

Physical Description: 26 x 18 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (p. 285) from a miniature Elzevir, viz., the much-prized volume on France in the "Republic Series," the little pocket library of travel books that have acquired a fame in inverse ratio to their size. Printed in Leyden , 1626

Physical Description: 11 x 6 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf from an illuminated Persian ms , early 17th century

Physical Description: 20 x 12 cm.

Volume 3
Leaf (Qq2) from the Vulgate edition of the Bible printed at the celebrated Plantin Press in Antwerp , 1628

Physical Description: 19 x 12 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf from Flora Londinensis, compiled and written by William Curtis, from the 1st edition, and printed in London , 1773
Volume 4
Leaf X2 from The Lessons of the Protestant Episcopal Church, compiled by Andrew Fowler and published by Blauvelt, New Brunswick, New Jersey , 1798

Physical Description: 14 x 9 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 129) from The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episocopal [sic] Church, printed by Parry Hall, Philadelphia , 1792

Physical Description: 17 x 10 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 245) from The Confession of Faith, Associate Reformed Chruch, printed in New York by T. & J. Swords , 1799

Physical Description: 22 x 13 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf 2Y2 from the Fables of Aesop, with designs on wood by Thomas Bewick, printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, Newcastle-on-Tyne , 1823

Physical Description: 22 x 14 cm.

Volume 4
Miniature leaf (p. 35) from an edition of Horace, printed from a specially designed type, and published by A. Mesnier at Paris , 1828

Physical Description: 8 x 5 cm.

Volume 4
Miniature leaf Q5 from a "History of Savoy," one of the "Republic Series" issued by the celebrated house of Elzevir at Leyden , 1634

Physical Description: 11 x 6 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 387) from The NewYork Mirror and Ladies' Literary Gazette, the 7th volume. Printed by J. Seymour at New York , 1829 and 1830

Physical Description: 32 x 26 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf Q1 from Icones Veteris Testamenti, or, Illustrations of the Old Testament, from designs by Holbein. Published by William Pickering and printed by Charles Whittingham, who, with his nephew, conducted the Chiswick Press, and bears the imprint, London , 1830

Physical Description: 20 x 13 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf QQ1 from The Book of Gems: the Poets and Artists of Great Britain, edited by S.C. Hall, with the imprint of Saunders and Otley, London , 1837

Physical Description: 23 x 14 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 187 of The Life and Death of Richard the Third) from the historic fourth folio of Shakespeare's plays, printed at London , 1685

Physical Description: 36 x 23 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 743) from the 3rd edition of Christopher Saur's German Bible, printed by him at Germantown, Pennsylvania , 1776

Physical Description: 26 x 20 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (full page engraving) from Dryden's translation of Virgil, published by Jacob Tonson at London , 1697

Physical Description: 37 x 23 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf Bb1 from the Works of Shakespeare, printed and published by Bioren and Madan at Philadelphia , 1796

Physical Description: 17 x 11 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (engraving, "Time") from Collection of Stipple engravings, by C. Taylor; printed at "No. 10, near Castle Street, Holbern" , 1786

Physical Description: 21 x 17 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf from an early 18th century illuminated Persian ms. The text consists of celebrated Persian poems and epics. Persia , ca. 1680-1720

Physical Description: 20 x 11 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 127) from Constitutiones de Jurejurando, a treatise on oaths by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, more generally known as Maimonides; edited and translated by Justus Christopher Dithmar; published by Cornelius Boutesteyn, at Leyden , 1706

Physical Description: 24 x 19 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 89) from The Extant Works of Clement of Alexandria, with textual emendations by Friedrich Sylburgh, and a recension of the Latin translation by Daniel Heinsius; issued by Jeremiah Schrey and Heinrich Johann Meyer, at Cologne , 1688

Physical Description: 36 x 24 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (Yyyyyyy1, p. 639, includes some ms. marginalia) from Parliamentary Acts passed during the reign of William III of England, and printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, printers to His Majesty, at London , 1695-1698

Physical Description: 28 x 18 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 405) from Dryden's Translation of Virgil, published by Jacob Tonson at London , 1697

Physical Description: 37 x 23 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (J1, p. 218) from a Latin manuscript entitled Candidum Puritatis Lilium. A treatise on logic written by one Julianus Antonius a Jaurigui in Guatemala, and "most worthily consecrated" to D. Aloysius Gonzaga

Physical Description: 21 x 16 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf from Tables of Logarithms For All Numbers 1 to 102,100, With Other Tables. By William Gardiner, and printed in London by G. Smith , 1742

Physical Description: 29 x 24 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (E1) from The Sonnets of Antonmaria Salvini, issued at Florence, by the press of H.R.H. The Grand Duke of Tuscany , 1728

Physical Description: 27 x 19 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (Ff2, p. 227) from Lucan's Pharsalia in the original, edited, with notes, by Richard Bentley, the foremost classical scholar of his time. Printed at the private press of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill , 1760

Physical Description: 29 x 23 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 61-62) from The Book of Wisdom and Lies, by Oliver Wardrop. Printed at the Kelmscott Press for Bernard Quaritch, London , 1894

Physical Description: 21 x 14 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf from A Rackham Illustration from "Tales founded on the Plays of Shakespeare" by Charles and Mary Lamb; printed by J.M. Dent & Co. at London , 1909

Physical Description: 23 x 16 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 65) from A Bruce Rogers Folio, a limited edition of Sir Thomas More's "Utopia," printed in New York at the Rudge Press , 1937

Physical Description: 26 x 17 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf from The Great Paritta, a translation in Burmese on a "palm leaf book." The colophon states that this translation was completed on the 7th waxing of the month of Tawthalin of the Burmese year 1237 , 1875, September

Physical Description: 47 x 5 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 80) from the first printed translation in Irish of the Old Testament. The title page runs as follows: "The books of the Old Testament, translated into Irish by ... Doctor William Bedel..." Printed in London, the edition being limited to five hundred , 1685

Physical Description: 24 x 19 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (Xxx2, p. 263) from a Scotch law book, entitled, "Observations on the Acts of Parliament, made by King James I to King Charles II," by Sir George Mackenzie. Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson at Edinburgh , 1686

Physical Description: 30 x 19 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (engraving, entitled, "Di Carlo D'Angio") from La Sicilia di Filippo Paruta, a compilation of Sicilian medals by Paruta, Secretary to the Palermitan Senate in the first half of the 17th Century, and Leonardo Agostini, Supervisor of Antiquities to the Pope. Published by Marco Maier at Lyons , 1697

Physical Description: 37 x 24 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 5) from Anacreon, Bion and Moschus, a book of poetry in the manner of the Greek poet, Anacreon, and bearing the imprint: I.B. Bodonius, Regis Catholici Typographus Parma , 1791

Physical Description: 15 x 10 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 191) from The Complete Measurer, by Wm. Hawney (Philomath); printed at Dublin by R. Jackson , 1785

Physical Description: 17 x 10 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 57) from Murray's English Grammar, by Lindley Murray, printed at Boston by Robert Davies & Co. , 1856

Physical Description: 16 x 10 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (engraving, "Tab. CCCLVI," I.G. Pintz, sculps.) from Scheuchzer Bible engraving, an example of copper engraving from the well-known Bible , 1731

Physical Description: 43 x 26 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (B5, p. 15**) from Medalische Historie der Republyk Van Holland, a volume of copper engravings. Pierre Bizot was the author of this book. This leaf is from the 2nd edition printed in Amsterdam , 1690

Physical Description: 23 x 18 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (B2, p. 18) from an Increase Mather sermon, an American incunable leaf. This comes from the hand of the brother Cotton Mather, although there was a sister named Increase , 1665

Physical Description: 15 x 9 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 489) from a French missal, from the press of J. Claye, Paris. This leaf is notable because the decorative borders are woodcut reproductions of a Fifteenth Century Book of Hours , 1858

Physical Description: 17 x12 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 159) from Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, written by William Morris, in his famous Chaucer type, and printed by him in a limited edition at his Kelmscott Press , 1895

Physical Description: 15 x 11 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (plate 247, entitled, "White-breasted Nuthatch") from an Audubon lithograph, printed at New York. The second edition of the most famous set of bird prints in the world. This leaf is from The Quadrapeds and is an original engraving, as Audubon was both the artist and the engraver on stone , 1856

Physical Description: 27 x 17 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (plate V, by G.T. Sanford) from Natural History Lithography, by Ebenezer Emmons, M.D., published by the State of New York and printed by Charles Van Benthuysen of Albany, New York , 1851

Physical Description: 29 x 22 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 291) from a Greek miniature, printed at Oxford by N. Bliss. This leaf is a fine example of Greek type, set to the classic Iliad , 1810

Physical Description: 12 x 7 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 65, "Novelties for July") from Goudy's Ladies Book, printed at Philadelphia , 1860

Physical Description: 23 x 15 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (copper engraving) from Spieghel der Schriftkonste, a book of calligraphy, by Jan van den Velde, printed in Rotterdam , 1605

Physical Description: 22 x 33 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf from a Persian manuscript, viz., the poem Sháhnáma of Firdausi , early 17th century

Physical Description: 33 x 21 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 71) from The Luck of the Roaring Camp, by Bret Harte. The 1st illustrated edition of Harte's works, published by James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, Mass. , 1872

Physical Description: 36 x 28 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 51, steel engraving vignette) from Gallery of English and American Poets. Printed in Philadelphia by C. Sherman & Son, and published by E.H. Butler & Co , 1859

Physical Description: 28 x 19 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (p. 203) from Coustumes de Touraine, a digest of laws in force in that Duchy. Printed by Estienne La Tour in the City of Tour , 1661

Physical Description: 24 x 18 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (C2, p. 27) from De Indiae Utriusque, Re Naturali et Medica, an illustrated work on the natural history of "Both Indies," by William Piso, printed by the Elzevirs at their Amsterdam press , 1658

Physical Description: 37 x 23 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (V, p. 134, with engraving) from Symbola Politica; printed by Elsiver in Amsterdam , around mid-century

Physical Description: 13 x 7 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf from a Callot etching, an original and fine impression (a rendering on copperplate by intaglio) by Jacques Callot. From his second or Lorraine period , 1621-1631

Physical Description: 7 x 10 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (engraving "Marci XI") from a German Bible miniature, printed in Frankfurt am Main as found in the Martin Luther translation printed by Balthasar Christoph Wustens. These perfect one inch miniatures are a rarity , 1664

Physical Description: 40 x 64 mm.

Volume 4
Leaf from Virorum Illustrium &c., a collection of portraits of eminent monks and nuns of the Augustinian order many of whom suffered martyrdom in far distant lands. This book was printed by George Czernoch at Prague; the copper engravings are by Johann Damperviel and G. de Groos , 1674

Physical Description: 30 x 18 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf (P1) from Ethico Politicorum, a book of emblems printed at Heidelberg by Clemens Ammon , 1666

Physical Description: 20 x 16 cm.

Volume 4
Leaf from the Collected Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Thomas Speght and printed in London. There were two issues of Chaucer bearing this date-the first printed by Adam Islip, the second by George Bishop. This leaf is from the Islip edition , 1598

Physical Description: 31 x 20 cm.