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: <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/62570#/summary">Flora Londinensis</a>,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."n--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.

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.

Information about this leaf: This leaf is printed in gothic type with red and blue rubrication and colored initials, which were added by hand to resemble the finer manuscripts of that day.,Information about this book: The book shows great care in presswork and page arrangement, and the colophon states that this book was printed "with art and indus[t]ry."n--From the label,Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 3, 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.

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.

Information about this leaf: This is an early printed dictionary/thesaurus. The initial letters are fairly plain with only slight rubrication and underlining in red ink.,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.

Information about this leaf: Printed in French gothic with woodcut initial letters.,Information about this book: The book this leaf came from was a commentary on the new Digest of Laws with notes from other scholars. It is was likely a digest of the laws of the Emperor Justinian.,Biographical information: "Bartolus de Saxoferrato was an eminent jurisconsult of the Fifteenth Century and a doctor of law at the university of Perugia."n--from the label,Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 24, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.,This leaf was identified from information on the label.

Information about this leaf: This fragment of Egyptian papyrus is dated to approximately 18th to 20th Dynasty.,Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 3, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.,This leaf was identified from information in the Pages from the Past inventory list.

Information about this leaf: This leaf is from a work on the Life of Christ. It is printed in gothic type, intended to emulate religious manuscripts of prior times. It has red and blue rubrication throughout.,Information about the book: The book this leaf is from has fully illuminated title-page leaves and colored woodcuts throughout.,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.

Information about this leaf: Printed in double columns in black ink, this leaf has woodcut notes written in brown ink in the margins. It also has a woodcut initial letter.,Information about this book: The book bears the colophon of Peter Posa which reads "Barcelona, August 22, 1505n--Information 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. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.

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]."n--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.

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.

Information about this leaf: The manuscript is printed in Gothic letter and page format with double columns of fifty-nine lines and uses several different sizes of type, all in the same font. The text is rubricated and the blue and red initial letters are hand-painted.,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. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.

Information about this leaf: The woodcut is a representation of the vices 'Of Beggars.' All 117 original woodcuts from Stultifera Navis or Ship of Fools, including this one, as well as the printer's device of Johann Bergmann von Olpe, can be viewed in the University of Houston's digital library by following this link: <a href="http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll15">Ship of Fools</a>,Information about this book: "The famous fifteenth-century satire on mankind's weaknesses and follies, "The Ship of Fools"/"Das Narrenschiff," composed in humorous verse by the German humanist Sebastian Brant, was first published in Basel by Johann Bergmann in 1494. Illustrated by woodcuts, many of which authorities now believe were designed by Albrecht Durer, it was immediately taken up by other printers and several unauthorized reprints using the original woodcuts appeared in other German cities in the same year. In 1497 a Latin translation done by Brant's friend Jacob Locher was published by the original printer. This copy is dated 1498. The volume contains one hundred and seventeen woodcuts, the first in the book bearing the date 1497 as does Bergmann's device which follows the colophon. The device shows a lion with a shield bearing six hills surmounted by a fleur-de-lis, which is surrounded by a scroll 'Nihil Sine Causa,' the date, and another scroll 'Io Bergman De Olpe.' There are ornamental side borders."n--WorldCat record for the book (viewed on 02/17/2016),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 and through examination of the University of Houton's digital collection of the woodcuts (viewed on 02/17/2016). WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.

Information about this leaf: It is printed in gothic type, which is actually "missale type," in red and black ink on vellum, with thirty-one lines per page. The manuscript was printed to resemble earlier manuscripts and though the red initial letters appear to be either hand-done or woodblock prints, they are actually printed using movable type. This particular leaf is also water-stained.,Information about this book: The original book this leaf came from was incomplete. It was bound in hand-tooled, original fifteenth century vellum with the portraits of twenty-eight saints engraved in the binding.,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. WorldCat records were used to glean additional information about the book.

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.

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."n--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.

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.

Information about this leaf: It is printed in a modified gothic text type with black ink in two columns, with very slight rubrication in red. This manuscript leaf is from De Imitatione Christi (The Imitation of Christ) included within this folio of works by Thomas a Kempis, although his authorship of De Imitatione Christi has been questioned.,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.

Information about this leaf: This manuscript is written on beautiful linen paper in a quasi-cursive gothic with rubrication.,Information about this book: "From a Latin manuscript dated 1434, containing the 'Sermones' of Simon de Cremona, prepared in the Scriptorium ... of the famous Carthusian monastery at Buxheim. Caspar Misnensis was the scribe ... finished writing out these sermons on the fifth day before the feast of Saint Erasmus the Martyr in 1434 ..."n--WorldCat record for the book (viewed on 02/03/2016),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.

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.