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Rare Book collection set: No. 3.

Rare Book collection leaf [1] from "Vulgate Bible (Dominican. Paris, ca. 1240)" appears to be from the Psalms, spanning most of Psalms 83-88. Includes rubrication.

Rare Book collection leaf [6] from "Nuremberg Chronicle / Schedel (Nuremberg, Germany, 1493)" is "Sextus"

Rare Book collection leaf [7] from "The Justinian code (Paris, France, 1512)" is Fol. Cxxix.

Rare Book collection leaf [8] from "Natural history / Pliny (Basle, Switzerland, 1525)" is page 291-292

Rare Book collection leaf [9] from "Adages / Erasmus (Basle, Switzerland, 1528)" is page 261-262.

Rare Book collection leaf [10] from "Anatomy / Vesalius (Basle, Switzerland, 1555)" is page 459-460. Rare Book collection leaf [11] from "Sonnets and canzoni / Petrarch (Venice, Italy, 1559)" is page 49-50.

Rare Book collection leaf [12] from "Writings / Hippocrates (Venice, Italy, 1585)" is page 299-300.

Rare Book collection leaf [13] from "History of plants / John Gerard (London, England, 1597)" is page 1145-1146 (mounted verso side forward, with illustration).

Rare Book collection leaf [14] from "Voyages / Richard Hakluyt (London, England, 1508-1600)" is page 154-153 (mounted verso side forward.. Rare Book collection leaf [15] from "The works of Geoffrey Chaucer (London, England, 1602)" is Fol. 117.

Rare Book collection leaf [16] from "Don Quixote / Miguel Cervantes (Madrid, Spain, 1608)" is leaf 172.

Rare Book collection leaf [17] from "The Holy Bible (King James Version) (London, England, 1611)" consists of Leviticus 16:19b-. Rare Book collection leaf [18] from "The advancement of learning : the new Atlantis, and other writings / Francis Bacon (London, England, 1638)" is page 369-370.

Rare Book collection leaf [19] from "Comedies, histories, tragedies (The fourth folio) / William Shakespeare (London, England, 1685)" is page 5-6.

Title from preliminary leaf.

Consists of an "Annotated chronological index" (leaf [0]), 3 original Medieval ms. leaves, and 22 original leaves from printed books; each leaf matted and with descriptive letterpress slip attached to lower left corner.

"Limited to one hundred and ten numbered sets"--Label on inside front cover. In portfolio.

There was also a deluxe issue, with subtitle "nine centuries, 1122-1923 A.D." and 40 original leaves, in 50 numbered sets.

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In Ege Manuscript Collection

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Rare Book collection copy: no. 46.

Rare Book collection leaf from "Vulgate Bible (Dominican. Paris, ca. 1240)" appears to be from 4 Kings (that is, 2 Kings, in Authorized notation), spanning most of Ch. XVII and the first half of Ch. XVIII.

Rare Book collection leaf from "Book of Hours (France, ca. 1460)" appears to be from the Office of Our Lady, Lauds.

Title from "Annotated chronological index."

Publication information from Chalmers, Checklist, in Disbound and dispersed : the leaf book considered. Chicago : Caxton Club, c2005.

Forty monted leaves, with annotated chronological index, boxed.

"Deluxe edition limited to fifty numbered sets ..."--Label inside cover of box.

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