Pages from the past: Italy
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Biblia Latina : [1 leaf]
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Information about this leaf: The leaf is printed in gothic type in double columns, without rubrication or initial lettering., 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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Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis : [pages 229-230]
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pftp112, OCLC: 827742147 (electronic version), 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 September 23, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000., Information about this leaf: Water damage; small hole in margin; mounting tape on top of page., Information about the book: Based upon viewing the digital copy in Internet Archive, it appears page 229 was misnumbered as page 233 as a page numbered 233 follows page 228 and page 232--Internet Archive viewed on 9/23/2016 (https://archive.org/details/bibliasacravulga00vene).
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Dante's divine comedy : [pages 25-26]
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Information about this page: This page features a unique layout as it holds the commentator's notes and annotations in the margins of the original poem. The typography of this page uses a roman font. These pages are taken from the first book in Dante's Divine Comedy, Inferno., Information about the book: This is one of the many reprinting and annotated versions of Dante's work. This, although no illustrations are featured on this page, is the only version of Dante's work to feature illustrations., Biographical information: Christoforo Landino was a well known Platonist, a person that follows the philosophy of Plato, which definitely influenced his commentary for this work. Unlike many writers, he used the vernacular Italian in his works. He mainly worked and wrote during the Florentine Renaissance, and died in 1498. 31 years before this copy of the book was reprinted., Publisher information: This book was published for Lucantonio Giunta, who was one of the very first book printers in Venice., Information about local copy: Very few stains, and the text still appears to be clear and legible.
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Digest of civil law : [pages 113-114]
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Information about this leaf: Printed in massed gothic type in red and black ink with rubrication and initial letters., Information about this book: This book is so rare that there is only one other known copy in the United States., 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.
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Iconologia di Cesare Ripa Pervgino, caualier de Santi Mauritio, & Lazaro : [pages 487-488]
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pftpf111, OCLC: 702167415, 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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Le antichita Romane, opera del cavaliere Giambatista Piranesi architetto veneziano divisa in quatro tomi : [1 leaf]
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Information about this leaf: This is an etching of a tomb along the ancient Appian Way in the Buonamici Vineyard. The heading indicates that this leaf was taken from volume three of the work and the image is number twenty. The paper is handmade. The copperplate etching is the work of Piranesi, the most famous architectural etcher ever. He is famed for his "careful mechanical delineation" and "astonishing depth of shading."
--From the label, Information about this book: Although the label declares the publication date as 1774, the consensus among other sources is that it was actually published in 1784. This four volume book is actually a folio, but it is considered a book due to the amount of detailed explanations Piranesi included with his etchings. All of the etchings from this book, with captions, are available at the following website and can be downloaded as a free ebook: http://tinyurl.com/httbns4, 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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Music page : [page 27-28]
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pftp166, 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., A lithograph sheet of music engraved on stone by F. Martelli and printed in 1845, at Naples.
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Officium Beate Marie Virginis : [1 leaf]
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Information about this leaf: This manuscript is written on vellum in brown and red ink, with blue and red initial letters, by an Italian scribe., Information about this book: This leaf comes from a book of approximately 300 pages which was part of the collection of the late Lord Berwick of Shrewsbury, England. Portions of the manuscript may be considered 11th century., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label.
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Propositiones ex omnibus Aristotelis libris excerptae : [pages 53-54]
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Information about this leaf: This manuscript is printed in roman in black and red ink., Information about this book: Brother Theophilus of Ferrara set forth these excerpts according to the expositions of Saint Thomas Aquinas and other scholars. A note on the last page states that the book was printed at the expense of Alexander Calcedonius of Pisaurum, a merchant. It is also stated that a special license was obtained from the Doge which prevented anyone else from printing this book in the Venetian State. The penalty for violators would be a fine and the confiscation of all the printed copies., Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on Januaury 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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Sonetti de Anton Maria Salvini, accademico della Crusca : [pages 297-298]
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pftp130, 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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Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere : [pages 191-192]
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Information about this page: Typography is a clear italic with the headings in roman capitals. The illustration is a copperplate engraving, which had recently replaced all woodblock engravings., Biographical information: Giulio Bonasone, the illustrator, was greatly influenced by his predecessor Raphael Sanzio da Urbino (otherwise known as Raphael). Achille Bocchi was an Italian humorist and writer that focused many of his works on emblem books, much like this one, which were used to make political, religious and moral points-- from University of Oxford Bodleian Library record of the book (viewed on 10-21-15)., Information about local copy: The paper has a unique silky quality. There is slight black smudging on page 191, and small tape marks on the top of both sides of this page., Information about the book: This book originally has 420 pages. The book covers topics about art and symbolism during the renaissance., Whole book can be found on the Internet Archive website.
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Vulgate Bible : [1 leaf]
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Information about this leaf: This leaf is printed in two columns in black ink. It appears to be from the book of Psalms, possibly beginning with Psalm 45 at the first indentation on the front of the leaf., Information about this book: The printer prefaces his remarks with an invocation of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin, and the "entire celestial mititia [sic]."
--From the label, Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop., This leaf was identified from information on the label.
