MC 35:
Manuscript and printed leaves from books
1115-1769
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Vellum Manuscript Leaves |
1115-1510 |
8.0 items
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Vulgate Leaf |
1115 |
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Scope and content:
Single vellum leaf; written in Latin in gothic blackletter with glosses and minor rubrication. Stanley S. Slotkin markings
on folio mount: "15-8" on left, "Book of Chronicles(?), "600" on right. Leaf disbound by Mr. Slotkin. Country of orgin: France.
No information provided regarding distribution of other leaves of this codex.
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Breviary Leaf from France |
1260 |
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Scope and content:
Single vellum leaf; written in Latin in gothic blackletter with rubrication and blue [no gold]. Two columns. Stanley S.
Slotkin markings on folio mount "23-14" on left, "300" on right. Leaf disbound by Mr. Slotkin. No information provided regarding
distribution of other leaves of this codex.
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Bible Leaf |
1310 |
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Scope and content:
Single vellum leaf; written in Latin in gothic blackletter with rubrication and blue [no gold]. Two columns of text both
sides with decorated inital letters at the start of paragraphs and roman letter V and VI before on face. Stanley S. Slotkin
markings on folio mount "26a-13" on left, "250" on right. Leaf disbound by Mr. Slotkin. Country of orgin: France. No information
provided regarding distribution of other leaves of this codex
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Sheepskin Manuscript Leaf |
1385 |
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Scope and content:
Stanley Slotkin notes: "The text from French Misselle done by hand 65 years before Guttenberg invented the moveable type press.
He took the World out of the dark ages of illiteracy."
2 columns each side, Inital caps alternating red and blue with rubrication. Text in a gothic bookhand. Column rules visible.
Leaf disbound by Mr. Slotkin. No information provided regarding distribution of other leaves of this codex.
University of Missouri lists a Catholic Missal(?) London, 1523 in their collection donated by Mr. Slotkin.
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Orange Breviary Leaf |
1390 |
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Scope and content:
Single vellum leaf; written in Latin in gothic blackletter with rubrication, blue and green decoration, and gold leaf. Margin
decoration to right of text on front. Notation "91" added later in pencil, upper right corner. Stanley S. Slotkin markings
on folio mount "74/19-33" on left, "350" on right. Leaf disbound by Mr. Slotkin. No information provided regarding distribution
of other leaves of this codex
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Book of Hours Leaf |
c.1400 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
Single vellum leaf; written in Latin in gothic blackletter with rubrication, blue and gold leaf inital on front, shell gold
initials on reverse. Stanley S. Slotkin markings on folio mount "54/36-1" on left, "300" on right, country of orgin is France
. Leaf disbound by Mr. Slotkin. No information provided regarding distribution of other leaves of this codex.
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Large Psalter leaf in folio |
c.1400 |
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Scope and content:
In folio vellum leaf; written in Latin in gothic blackletter with rubrication, green and blue [no gold]. Sepia vine work
around most decorative initials. Music notation on all four sides. No markings provided by source, Stanley S. Slotkin.
Folio disbound by Mr. Slotkin, holes from orignial binding clearly visible. No information provided regarding distribution
of other leaves of this codex.
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German Psalter leaf |
1510 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
Single vellum leaf; written in Latin in gothic blackletter with rubrication and blue [no gold]. Music notation begins on
front, continues full on reverse. Notation "Terk" added later in upper right corner. Stanley S. Slotkin markings on folio
mount "X2-34" on left, "350" on right. Leaf disbound by Mr. Slotkin. No information provided regarding distribution of other
leaves of this codex.
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Religious Leaves on Paper |
1207-1736 |
9.0 items
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Leaf from Les Nouvelles Fleurs de la vie des Saints |
1665 |
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Scope and content:
La vie de Saint Hierome; p. 317-8.
possibly by Pedro de Ribadeneyra; Antoine Duval; Marc Antoine Gérard Saint-Amant, sieur de; Philippe Labbe; René Gautier,
M.
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Leaf from the Koran |
1207 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
highly decorated leaf. Stanley Slotkin's annotations on the accompanying center page facsimile indicate that the red lettering
is in Persian, the black lettering in Arabic. Gold leaf throughout.
Similar page donated to the Smithsonian Institute:
http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/picturingwords/PW_enlarge.cfm?id_image=1159
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Biblia Sacra: Tobias leaf |
1593 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
Four columns numbered 647-50. Leaf appears dark/stained. Chapters are numbered in Roman numerals, versus numbered and indented.
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Das Evangelium St. Luca Leaf |
1649 |
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Scope and content:
Leaf printed in Germany on paper in gothic blackletter type; columns numbered 989-992. Accompanied by facsimile of two title
pages, one latin, the other "Biblia ...D. Martin Luther"
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Officium parvum B. Mariae leaf |
c.1650 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
Printed in both black and red on paper, this early Psalter has large print to be read outloud. Includes the Ave Maria.
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Psalmum LXXV leaf |
1710 |
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Scope and content:
Printed columns 563 and 564 recto, 565 and 566 verso on fine paper [with chain lines]. Typeset in two columns margin notes.
Leaf appears to accompany printed facsimile of Thomae Le Blanc Title Page. No information provided regarding distribution
of other leaves of this book.
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Petr. Berchorij Lib. III leaf |
1714 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
leaf printed on paper p. 345-6, verso titled Reductorii Moralis. Leaf accompanied by facsimile title page Manuductio ad Excitatorem
Christianum; Printed by Tomus Primus.
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religious text leaf |
c.1736 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
p. 157-8 with 158 being the more interesting side. Seven facsimile title pages grouped on one page accompany this leaf.
Slotkin's notes indicate a sampling of works covering the prophets, Martin Luther, Law and morals. All were printed in Nuremberg,
Salsburg or Mainz between 1589 and 1782.
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Biblia Sacra (Vulgate) leaf |
c.1700 |
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Scope and content:
Isr. Ioram; Regum IIII; Chapters VI - IX; p. 245-46. Printed on paper, two columns each side with sidenotes.
Note the University of Missouri has similar leaf they indicate is Numbers, ch. 34-36 (London, 1593), p.137-38.
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Secular Leaves on Paper |
1483-1769 |
7.0 items
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Leaf 563-4 C. Plini Naturalis Historiae Liber XXXI |
1483 |
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Scope and content:
Single leaf accompanied by facsimile title page which indicates that Stanley Slotkin purchased the codex from the Library
of the Erasmus Darwin Collection, London. Facsimile page provides a brief history of Pliny the Elder.
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De Quadruped, Historia Naturalis leaf |
1560 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
Printed leaf 59-60 on fine paper [with chain lines]. Typeset in two columns with margin notes. Leaf appears to accompany
printed facsimile of Title Page for Petri Andrea Matthioli.
University of Missouri received "Secundi Naturalis Historiae Mundi", "Liber Primus" preface (1563) from Mark Slotkin.
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Questiones Canonicae leaf |
c.1730 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
p. 113-4. Legal questions with dated responses. 2 columns each side. staining on the page. Accompanying facsimile of title
pages offer 7 volumes on law, religion and the bible ranging from 1650 to 1788.
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Leaf from "The History of Oxford Writers" |
1716 |
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Scope and content:
Columns number 649-652; including entries "John Shirley, London b. 7 Aug 1648"; "Daniel Capel, Glocester b. 1656"; and "Christopher
Davenport, Coventry, Warwickshire"
likely from "Athenae britannicae: or, A critical history of the Oxford and Cambrige [sic] writers and writings, with those
of the dissenters and romanists, as well as other authors and worthies, both domestick and foreign, both ancient and modern.
Together with an occasional freedom of thought, in criticizing and comparing the parallel qualifications of the most eminent
authors and their performances, both in manuscript and print, both at home and abroad" by Myles Davies
6 vols. of this work were published between 1715-1719. - All three vols. in the Cambridge University set are dated 1716. -
The third volume differs in its contents from all four states mentioned on ESTC, containing 7 parts, the six listed for ESTC
t135528, and the "dissertation upon ... physick" which is part of ESTC t200741. Illustration: vol. 1, frontispiece of "George,
Prince of Wales". - Each volume has an index. Binding: calf, panelled, part speckled, with blind rolls and tools.
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Liber I, Antiquitatum Romanarum leaf |
c.1678 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
Printed page 59 recto, 60 verso on fine paper [with chain lines]. Typeset in two columns with rules. Leaf appears to accompany
printed facsimile of Title Page for Opera Omnia, Simonis Ulrici.
University of Missouri has p. 169-70 of Opera Omnia, Simonis Ulrici "Disputato Secunda de Merito Justi" (Leipzig and Frankfurt,
1678).
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Saeculum Tertium, Historie Ecclesiastice leaf |
1767 |
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Scope and content:
Printed page 69 recto, 70 verso on fine paper [with chain lines]. Typeset in two columns with margin notes. Leaf appears
to accompany printed facsimile of Title Page for Benedicti XIV. No information provided regarding distribution of other
leaves of this book.
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Vita D. Van Espen, Liber III Articulus I, leaf |
1769 |
1.0 items
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Scope and content:
Printed page 53 recto, 54 verso on fine paper [with chain lines]. Typeset in two columns with foot notes. Leaf appears to
accompany printed facsimile of Title Page for Concil II Tridentini. No information provided regarding distribution of other
leaves of this book.
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