Pages from the past: England
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America : Being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : [pages 277-278]
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Leaf (pages 277-278) from an early travel book on the Americas originally published by John Ogilby, 1671. Parts of text based on Arnoldus Montanus's "De Nieuwe en onbekende weereld: of beschryving van America en't zuid-land." Engraving top of page 277 illustrates a description of the “Inhabitants of Mexico.” “…Cloth’d in Cotton: On their heads they wore a high Plume of red Feathers; about their Necks, over their Shoulders, Breast and Back, a kind of large Thorax of Feathers curiously pleited ; each Arm adorn’d with Armlets, and their Middles girt with broad white Girdles full of red Streaks ; in stead of Garters they wore Laces of Feathers, as also a little above their Ancles.”
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Anatomy of melancholy : [pages 537-538]
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Information about digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on September 11, 2015. Scanning method: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., Information about the book: Earlier editions appeared under Robert Burton's nom de plume "Democritus Junior". Imprint information on colophon: Oxford, Printed by John Lichfield, Printer to the Famous Vniversity, for Henry Cripps. --WorldCat (viewed on 10/30/2015), Publisher note: John Lichfield was admitted as a tavern keeper by the University of Oxford in 1605 and was appointed printer to the university and inferior bedell of law in 1617. He was responsible for printing the first four editions of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. --Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (viewed on 11/25/2015)
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Annales : The true and royal history of the famous empresse Elizabeth : [pages 365-366]
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Information about this leaf: From Annales of Elizabeth (1625) containing pages 365-366 from Book 2 dated 1576. Typography is Roman with selected phrases such as "Queen Elizabeth" and the formal names of figures and countries in italics. Noteworthy on page 365 is the mention of the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II and the succession of his son, Rudolf II. Page 366 tells of the death of Walter Devereux, the 1st Earl of Essex., This leaf was identified from information on the label.
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Anno regni Gulielmi III regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, nono & decimco : [1 leaf]
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pftp124, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on November 11, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Annual register, or a A view of the history, politics, and literature, for the year 1788 : [pages 173-174]
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pftp154, OCLC: 510561964, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Book of gems : [pages 339-340]
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pftp148, OCLC: 912932038, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Book of wisdom and lies : [pages 163-164]
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pftp 156, OCLC: 4382355, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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British monarchy, or, A new chorographical description of all the dominions subject to the King of Great Britain : [page 138]
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pftp126, OCLC: 54246992, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on November 11, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Cases argued and decreed in the High Court of Chancery from the 12th year of King Charles II to the 31st : [pages 33-34]
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pftp117, OCLC 11652003, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Catlin's letters on North American Indians : [pages 41-42]
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pftp164, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Collection of stipple engravings : [1 leaf]
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pftp138, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Crawhall's chap-book chaplets : [1 leaf]
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pftp 170, OCLC: 2855433, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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English book of laws : [1 leaf]
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This book was identified from the information on the label., Information about the text: The type of these pages is a Gothic text with a Roman running-head.
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Fables of Aesop, and others : [pages 213-214]
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pftp144, OCLC: 123230195 (print), This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Flora londinensis : [1 leaf]
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Information about this leaf: The illustration is a carefully detailed engraving that was been hand-painted with watercolor to represent the exact colors of the plant Medicago polymorpha, a type of clover. The image is labeled 176 in the upper right corner. This illustration is Plate 47 in Volume 3. All six volumes of the Flora Londinensis can be viewed in the Biodiversity Heritage Library by following this link: Flora Londinensis, Information about this book: Although the label declares this book was published in 1773, there is a consensus that it was actually published in 1777. This book is the first volume in a promised series in which Curtis declares he will "publish a number once a month--or six weeks at fartherest."
--From the label, Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
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Greek miniature : [pages 93-94]
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pftp143, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf is a fine example of Greek type, set to the classic Illiad.
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Guide into the tongues : [pages 445-446]
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Information about this leaf: The leaf is taken from the section of the book which sees the end of words starting with "shi" and the beginning of words starting with"sho.", Information about this book: It is said to be the first Comparative Linguistic Dictionary printed in England, as well as the first ever sold in advance by subscription. It contains eleven languages: English, Welsh, Low Dutch, High Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
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Herball or generall historie of plantes : [pages 533-534]
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Information about this book: An interesting note regarding the title, chirurgerie is an archaic word for surgery, indicating that Gerard was a master surgeon., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
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Icones Veteris Testamenti : [1 leaf]
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pftp147, OCLC: 644272846, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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King James Bible : [1 leaf]
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Information about this leaf: Printed in type and size that anticipates "the more legible and less bulky book of the future."
--From the label, Information about this book: Printed and published by Robert Barker, who was the King's printer at the time., Information about digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on September 11, 2015. Scanning method: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label.
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King James Bible : [1 leaf]
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Possibly the “He” bible, 2nd edition after the “She” bible. Recto side is printed with Job Chapter 14-(top of) 15 (verses 1-2). Verso side is printed with Job Chapter 15 verses 3-35 – Chapter 16 (verses 1-5). Each chapter is enumerated with Roman numerals and begins with an historiated initial. Chapter titles and description are in Roman type and the verses are in Gothic script. The text is set in two columns with book and chapter annotations are in margins. The top of each side has a brief summary sentence (recto) “The breuitie of mans life.”; (verso) “Causes why Job is reprehended.”
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Leabḣuir na Seintiomna ar na ttarrvʻng go gaiḋlig tre c̓úram & ḋúṫraś an Doctúir Uilliam Bedel, roiṁe so easbug Chille Móire a Nēirin̄, agus anois ar na ccur a ccló c̓um maiṫios pvʻblidhe na tīresin
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pftp118, OCLC 12761157 (microform), This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., Information about the book: "Translated by William Bedell, with the assistance of Murtagh King and Dennis Sheridan. 'Revised by A. Sall ... Narcissus March and other scholars ... Printed with the Irish type presented by the Hon. R. Boyle, and chiefly at his expense.' cf. Darlow & Moule."
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Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indian : [page 158]
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pftp165, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. Online resources were used to glean additional information about the book.
Mulder, M. (2015, April 22). Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indian, by George Catlin (1841). ZSR Library. Retrieved from https://zsr.wfu.edu/2015/letters-and-notes-on-the-manners-customs-and-condition-of-the-north-american-indian-by-george-catlin-1841/, Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes : [pages 667-668]
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Information about digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on September 11, 2015. Scanning method: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., Publisher note: North's translation was entered to the French refugee stationer Thomas Vautrollier on 6 April 1579. --Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (viewed on 10/30/2015), Information about the book: North's translation of Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, is taken from the third edition of Jacques Amyot's French translation, printed at Lausanne by François le Preux in 1574. --Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (viewed on 10/30/2015)
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M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia cum notis Hugonis Grotti, et Richardi Bentleii : [pages 479-480]
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pftp129, OCLC: 56488523, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on December 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Mathew's Bible : [1 leaf]
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Information about the page: The back of this page shows a woodcut initial. The layout features two columns with a Gothic font that was done with a metal type. Because of this, the print is much bolder, and longer lasting than the already faded woodcut initial., Information about the book: This is the 4th and final edition of the Mathew's Bible. It was printed six years before the standard King James version., Biographical information: Thomas Mathew is an alias for John Rogers, the translator and commentator of this version., Publisher information: This version of the text was printed for Robert Toye., Information about local copy: On the front of the first page towards the bottom left, there is some unusual colored stains running up the side of the paper. There are also some small tape segments which cover portions of the text. On the back of the paper, there is the faded woodcut, but little to no staining or imperfections.
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New world of words, or, A general English dictionary : [1 leaf]
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pftp116, OCLC 79628232, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Registrum brevium : [1 leaf]
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Information about this leaf: Written on vellum in Latin script that evokes the feeling of Carolignian miniscule with red and blue painted initial letters., Information about this book: This is a legal manuscript which records judicial proceedings in the reign of King Edward III including cases tried at the Court of Law at Westminster and elsewhere. It contains evidence of family histories, possessions, and names and actions of important people., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on January 27, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
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Relation of a iourney begun an. Dom. 1610 : [pages 33-34]
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Information about this leaf: Printed in a variety of type sizes and lacking illustrations. Includes Latin quotations., Information about digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on September 11, 2015. Scanning method: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
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Tables of logarithms, for all numbers from 1 to 102100 : [1 leaf]
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pftp132, OCLC: 11314580, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Thesaurus brevium, or, A collection of approved forms of writs, and pleadings to those writs, and entries of those writs and pleadings : [1 leaf]
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pftp115, OCLC: 455351999, This leaf is part of Pages of the Past: Original Leaves from Rare Books and Manuscripts, a collection of manuscript and rare book leaves., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.
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Turner's picturesque views in England and Wales : Reproduced in permanent photography, with descriptive and historical illus. Landscapes : [1 leaf]
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Information about this leaf: This photograph is captioned Lancaster Sands and the roman numerals underneath the photograph indicate it is the nineteenth photograph in the book., Information about this book: The book this photograph is from uses a new medium of photography to reproduce paintings. The photograph plates were hand-glued to each page by the publishers., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.
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