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History of the Book: Leaf Collection, 1250-1939
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- History of the Book: Leaf Collection
- Dates
- 1250-1939 (inclusive)14401939
- Quantity
- 64 items, (1 portfolio)
- Collection Number
- OLPb075LEA
- Summary
- This collection includes leaves from books by key European printers from the introduction of the printing press in the fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century.
- Repository
-
Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives
Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu - Access Restrictions
-
This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Leaves from books, both handwritten and printed, on vellum and paper.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.
Preferred Citation
History of the Book Leaf Collection (OLPb075LEA), Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Stephen Langton
|
c. 1250 |
| 2 | "Psalms 71-72," Leaf from a Psalter in Latin
France
|
c. early 13th c. |
| 3 | "Psalms 73-74," Leaf from a Psalter in Latin
France
|
c. early 13th c. |
| 4 | Job from a Book of Hours made for Sir John
Fastolf, Rouen
Ms on vellum
|
c. 1440 |
| 5 | Margaret of Antioch from a book of saints’
lives
Ms on vellum
|
c. 1450 |
| 6 | Macrobius
printed by Nicholas Jenson, Venice
|
1472 |
| 7 | Bible leaf from Isaiah 38:11-18"
France
|
c. 1475 |
| 8 | Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum
Doctrinale
printed by Adolf Rusch, Strassburg 1477
|
1477 |
| 9 | Ebendorfer, Sermones Dominicales
pub by Heinrich Knoblochtzer, Strassburg
|
1478 |
| 10 | Bible leaf from Genesis
pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg
|
1479 |
| 11 | Bible leaf from Apocalypse
pub by Ottaviano Scoto, Venice
|
1480 |
| 12 | Jacobus de Voraigne, Legenda aurea sanctorum
Caxton, London
|
1483 |
| 13 | Nic. Perrotus, Cornucopiae
pub. by Bernard of Cremona & Simon of Livorno, Venice
|
1490 |
| 14 | Angelus de Clavasio, Summa
Angelica
pub by Georgius Arrivabenus, Venice
|
1492 |
| 15 | Peter Lombard, Sentences
pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg
|
1492 |
| 16 | Hartmann Schedel, Nuremberg
Chronicle
pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg
|
1493 |
| 17 | Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle
pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg
|
1493 |
| 18 | Schedel Nuremberg Chronicle
pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg
|
1493 |
| 19 | Carracciolus, Sermones
pub by Michael Greyff, Reutlingen
|
1495 |
| 20 | Petrarca, Francisco, Opera Latina
pub by Johannes von Amerbach, Basel
|
1496 |
| 21 | Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle
pub by Johann Schönsperger, Augsburg
|
1496 |
| 22 | Bible leaf from Numbers
pub by Froben & Langendorf, Basel
|
1498 |
| 23 | Horatius Flaccus, Opera [Odes I,8;
I,27]
pub by Johann Grüninger, Strassburg
|
1498 |
| 24 | Aratus, Phaenomena
pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice
|
1499 |
| 25 | Marcellinus Antonin, Works of Cicero
pub by Johannes de Vingle, Lyons
|
1500 |
| 26 | Juvenal, Satires
pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice
|
1501 |
| 27 | Bible in Bohemian
pub by Peter Lichtenstein, Venice
|
1506 |
| 28 | Jean Lemaire de Belges, Le traictie intitule
de la difference des scismes et des concilles de leglise et de la
preeminence et utilite des co[n]cilles: de la saincte eglise
Gallicaine
pub by [Geoffrey de Marnef], Paris
|
1511 |
| 29 | Erasmus, Bible Commentary
pub by Froben, Basel
|
1516 |
| 30 | Bible leaf from Hebrews
pub by Lucantonio Giunta, Venice
|
1519 |
| 31 | Dio Cassius, Lives of the Emperors
pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice
|
1519 |
| 32 | Bartolo of Saxoferrato,
Commentaries
pub by Jacob Saccon, Lyons
|
1521 |
| 33 | Martial, Epigrams
pub by Guilielmus de Fontaneto, Venice
|
1521 |
| 34 | Petrarch, Sonetti e Canzoni (e
Trionfi)
pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice
|
1521 |
| 35 | Plutarch, Lives of Romans & Greeks
pub by Ludovicus Britannicus et fratres, Brescia
|
1534 |
| 36 | Vergil, Aeneid, translated by Gavin
Douglas
pub by W. Copland, London
|
1553 |
| 37 | Justin the Martyr, Works (index)
pub by Jacques Dupuys, Paris
|
1554 |
| 38 | Bible leaf from Ecclesiasticus
pub by Francesco Durone, Geneva
|
1562 |
| 39 | Apian, Cosmography
pub in Antwerp, using plates from 1524 first edition
|
1575 |
| 40 | Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles
pub by H. Bynneman f. J. Harrison, London
|
1577 |
| 41 | Bible (Geneva text, quarto)
pub by Christopher Barker, London
|
1580 |
| 42 | Petrarch, Works w/ Gesualdo
commentary
pub by Alessandro Griffio, Venice
|
1581 |
| 43 | Bible (Geneva text, folio)
pub by Christopher Barker, London
|
1583 |
| 44 | Biblia Sacra
pub by Christophe Plantin, Antwerp
|
1583 |
| 45 | Hebrew Bible leaf from Esther
pub by Christophe Plantin, Antwerp
|
1564 |
| 46 | Bible leaf from Numbers
pub by Henry Middleton, London
|
1585 |
| 47 | Biblia Sacra (Jerome vulgate text)
pub by Damian Zenarus, Venice
|
1603 |
| 48 | Ortelius, Atlas
pub by Plantin, Antwerp
|
1612 |
| 49 | King James Bible (49-line first
edition)
pub by Christopher Barker, London
|
1611 |
| 50 | King James Bible (72-line second
edition)
pub by Robert Barker, London
|
1613 |
| 51 | Shakespeare, First Folio Works
pub by Jaggard and Blount
|
1623 |
| 52 | Shakespeare, Second Folio Works
pub by Thomas Cotes
|
1632 |
| 53 | Ben Jonson, Sejanus
pub by Bishop, London
|
1640 |
| 54 | Walton Polyglot Bible
pub by Thomas Roycroft, London
|
1656 |
| 55 | Indenture in Latin, dealing with land transfer
in Yorkshire
ms
|
1683 |
| 56 | Arndt, Wahren Christenthum
pub by B. Franklin & Johann Bohm, Philadelphia
|
1751 |
| 57 | Alexander Pope, Epistle I
pub by Foulis Press, Glasgow
|
1785 |
| 58 | John Johnson, Typographia
pub by Longman, Hurst, London
|
1824 |
| 59 | Voragine, Golden Legend
pub by William Morris, Kelmscott
|
1892 |
| 60 | Caxton, Reynard the Fox
pub by William Morris, Kelmscott
|
1892 |
| 61 | Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose
pub by William Morris. Kelmscott
|
1896 |
| 62 | Milton, Paradise Lost
pub by Doves Press, England
|
1902 |
| 63 | Sara Bard Field, The Cats, Los
Gatos
pub in California
|
c. 1920 |
| 64 | Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde
pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England
|
1927 |
| 65 | Cervantes, Don Quixote
pub by Ashendene Press, Chelsea
|
1927-8 |
| 66 | Golden Cockerel Press Prospectus
pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England
|
1929 |
| 67 | Osterley, Roses of Sharon
pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England
|
1937 |
| 68 | Nancy Quennell, A Lover’s Progress
pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England
|
1938 |
| 69 | Christmas Books Prospectus
pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England
|
1939 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Printing -- History
Personal Names
- Barker, Christopher, 1529-1599
- Froben, Hieronymus, 1501-1563
- Greyff, Michael, d. ca. 1512
- Grüninger, Johann, d. 1532?
- Jenson, Nicolas, ca. 1420-1480
- Koberger, Anton, ca. 1440-1513
- Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515
- Plantin, Christophe, ca. 1520-1589.
Corporate Names
- Doves Press
- Golden Cockerel Press
- Kelmscott Press
Paul Merchant
2012
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