History of the Book: Leaf Collection, 1250-1939

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

• Description: Interpretation of Hebrew Names

  Stephen Langton

  Dates: c. 1250
  Container: 1
• Description: "Psalms 71-72," Leaf from a Psalter in Latin

  France

  Dates: c. early 13th c.
  Container: 2
• Description: "Psalms 73-74," Leaf from a Psalter in Latin

  France

  Dates: c. early 13th c.
  Container: 3
• Description: Job from a Book of Hours made for Sir John Fastolf, Rouen

  Ms on vellum

  Dates: c. 1440
  Container: 4
• Description: Margaret of Antioch from a book of saints’ lives

  Ms on vellum

  Dates: c. 1450
  Container: 5
• Description: Macrobius

  printed by Nicholas Jenson, Venice

  Dates: 1472
  Container: 6
• Description: Bible leaf from Isaiah 38:11-18"

  France

  Dates: c. 1475
  Container: 7
• Description: Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum Doctrinale

  printed by Adolf Rusch, Strassburg 1477

  Dates: 1477
  Container: 8
• Description: Ebendorfer, Sermones Dominicales

  pub by Heinrich Knoblochtzer, Strassburg

  Dates: 1478
  Container: 9
• Description: Bible leaf from Genesis

  pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg

  Dates: 1479
  Container: 10
• Description: Bible leaf from Apocalypse

  pub by Ottaviano Scoto, Venice

  Dates: 1480
  Container: 11
• Description: Jacobus de Voraigne, Legenda aurea sanctorum

  Caxton, London

  Dates: 1483
  Container: 12
• Description: Nic. Perrotus, Cornucopiae

  pub. by Bernard of Cremona & Simon of Livorno, Venice

  Dates: 1490
  Container: 13
• Description: Angelus de Clavasio, Summa Angelica

  pub by Georgius Arrivabenus, Venice

  Dates: 1492
  Container: 14
• Description: Peter Lombard, Sentences

  pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg

  Dates: 1492
  Container: 15
• Description: Hartmann Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle

  pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg

  Dates: 1493
  Container: 16
• Description: Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle

  pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg

  Dates: 1493
  Container: 17
• Description: Schedel Nuremberg Chronicle

  pub by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg

  Dates: 1493
  Container: 18
• Description: Carracciolus, Sermones

  pub by Michael Greyff, Reutlingen

  Dates: 1495
  Container: 19
• Description: Petrarca, Francisco, Opera Latina

  pub by Johannes von Amerbach, Basel

  Dates: 1496
  Container: 20
• Description: Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle

  pub by Johann Schönsperger, Augsburg

  Dates: 1496
  Container: 21
• Description: Bible leaf from Numbers

  pub by Froben & Langendorf, Basel

  Dates: 1498
  Container: 22
• Description: Horatius Flaccus, Opera [Odes I,8; I,27]

  pub by Johann Grüninger, Strassburg

  Dates: 1498
  Container: 23
• Description: Aratus, Phaenomena

  pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice

  Dates: 1499
  Container: 24
• Description: Marcellinus Antonin, Works of Cicero

  pub by Johannes de Vingle, Lyons

  Dates: 1500
  Container: 25
• Description: Juvenal, Satires

  pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice

  Dates: 1501
  Container: 26
• Description: Bible in Bohemian

  pub by Peter Lichtenstein, Venice

  Dates: 1506
  Container: 27
• Description: 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

  Dates: 1511
  Container: 28
• Description: Erasmus, Bible Commentary

  pub by Froben, Basel

  Dates: 1516
  Container: 29
• Description: Bible leaf from Hebrews

  pub by Lucantonio Giunta, Venice

  Dates: 1519
  Container: 30
• Description: Dio Cassius, Lives of the Emperors

  pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice

  Dates: 1519
  Container: 31
• Description: Bartolo of Saxoferrato, Commentaries

  pub by Jacob Saccon, Lyons

  Dates: 1521
  Container: 32
• Description: Martial, Epigrams

  pub by Guilielmus de Fontaneto, Venice

  Dates: 1521
  Container: 33
• Description: Petrarch, Sonetti e Canzoni (e Trionfi)

  pub by Aldus Manutius, Venice

  Dates: 1521
  Container: 34
• Description: Plutarch, Lives of Romans & Greeks

  pub by Ludovicus Britannicus et fratres, Brescia

  Dates: 1534
  Container: 35
• Description: Vergil, Aeneid, translated by Gavin Douglas

  pub by W. Copland, London

  Dates: 1553
  Container: 36
• Description: Justin the Martyr, Works (index)

  pub by Jacques Dupuys, Paris

  Dates: 1554
  Container: 37
• Description: Bible leaf from Ecclesiasticus

  pub by Francesco Durone, Geneva

  Dates: 1562
  Container: 38
• Description: Apian, Cosmography

  pub in Antwerp, using plates from 1524 first edition

  Dates: 1575
  Container: 39
• Description: Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles

  pub by H. Bynneman f. J. Harrison, London

  Dates: 1577
  Container: 40
• Description: Bible (Geneva text, quarto)

  pub by Christopher Barker, London

  Dates: 1580
  Container: 41
• Description: Petrarch, Works w/ Gesualdo commentary

  pub by Alessandro Griffio, Venice

  Dates: 1581
  Container: 42
• Description: Bible (Geneva text, folio)

  pub by Christopher Barker, London

  Dates: 1583
  Container: 43
• Description: Biblia Sacra

  pub by Christophe Plantin, Antwerp

  Dates: 1583
  Container: 44
• Description: Hebrew Bible leaf from Esther

  pub by Christophe Plantin, Antwerp

  Dates: 1564
  Container: 45
• Description: Bible leaf from Numbers

  pub by Henry Middleton, London

  Dates: 1585
  Container: 46
• Description: Biblia Sacra (Jerome vulgate text)

  pub by Damian Zenarus, Venice

  Dates: 1603
  Container: 47
• Description: Ortelius, Atlas

  pub by Plantin, Antwerp

  Dates: 1612
  Container: 48
• Description: King James Bible (49-line first edition)

  pub by Christopher Barker, London

  Dates: 1611
  Container: 49
• Description: King James Bible (72-line second edition)

  pub by Robert Barker, London

  Dates: 1613
  Container: 50
• Description: Shakespeare, First Folio Works

  pub by Jaggard and Blount

  Dates: 1623
  Container: 51
• Description: Shakespeare, Second Folio Works

  pub by Thomas Cotes

  Dates: 1632
  Container: 52
• Description: Ben Jonson, Sejanus

  pub by Bishop, London

  Dates: 1640
  Container: 53
• Description: Walton Polyglot Bible

  pub by Thomas Roycroft, London

  Dates: 1656
  Container: 54
• Description: Indenture in Latin, dealing with land transfer in Yorkshire

  ms

  Dates: 1683
  Container: 55
• Description: Arndt, Wahren Christenthum

  pub by B. Franklin & Johann Bohm, Philadelphia

  Dates: 1751
  Container: 56
• Description: Alexander Pope, Epistle I

  pub by Foulis Press, Glasgow

  Dates: 1785
  Container: 57
• Description: John Johnson, Typographia

  pub by Longman, Hurst, London

  Dates: 1824
  Container: 58
• Description: Voragine, Golden Legend

  pub by William Morris, Kelmscott

  Dates: 1892
  Container: 59
• Description: Caxton, Reynard the Fox

  pub by William Morris, Kelmscott

  Dates: 1892
  Container: 60
• Description: Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose

  pub by William Morris. Kelmscott

  Dates: 1896
  Container: 61
• Description: Milton, Paradise Lost

  pub by Doves Press, England

  Dates: 1902
  Container: 62
• Description: Sara Bard Field, The Cats, Los Gatos

  pub in California

  Dates: c. 1920
  Container: 63
• Description: Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde

  pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England

  Dates: 1927
  Container: 64
• Description: Cervantes, Don Quixote

  pub by Ashendene Press, Chelsea

  Dates: 1927-8
  Container: 65
• Description: Golden Cockerel Press Prospectus

  pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England

  Dates: 1929
  Container: 66
• Description: Osterley, Roses of Sharon

  pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England

  Dates: 1937
  Container: 67
• Description: Nancy Quennell, A Lover’s Progress

  pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England

  Dates: 1938
  Container: 68
• Description: Christmas Books Prospectus

  pub by Golden Cockerel Press, England

  Dates: 1939
  Container: 69