Book identified using information on label.,Information on the book: This book features annotations by various scholars based upon the manuscript in the possession of Lorenzo Valla, the great Italian Humanist of the Renaissance.

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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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Book identified using information on label.,Information on author: The author also went by the name, Master Pietrus Lombardus.

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Book identified using information on label.,Publisher information: Robert Estienne was successor to the more famous Henri Estienne.

Book identified using information on label.,Author note: Paulus Jovius was the Bishop of Nocera.

"(Reprinted from the Christian's monthly magazine)."

Sermon text: Hebrews II, 10.,Publisher's advertisement at end.

Text on 2nd Peter III, 11-13.,Attributed to William De Burgh. Cf. Halkett & Laing.

Book identified using information on label.,Information on book: This is a Spanish translation of Livy, a famous Roman historian. This book is one of the earliest example of color woodcuts. These particular woodcuts had their origin in Mainz, Germany, where they were used in a German translation of Livy

Information about the book: This book introduced the method of determining time by altitude, which was originally discovered by Ibn Junis (Yunis), to Europe. The title page shows an early example of copyright, saying it's forbidden by imperial edict to print or sell this book within the next ten years. The consequence for doing this was confiscation of all copies and a fine of fifty gold coins for each counterfeit book printed or sold. This book was originally finished in 1459, but published in 1514.--University of Cambridge record for the book (viewed on September 21, 2015). Full book has 275 pages.,Biographical Information: Peuerbach and Regiomontanus were two leading astronomers of the fifteenth century. Peuerback studied at the University of Vienna and held the position of court astrologer to the king of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor Fredrick III.--University of Cambridge record for the book (viewed on 9-21-15).,Information about local copy: There is a slight staining throughout the page. Small tape marks on top of page 66.,Whole book is available on the Internet Archive.

A compilation of the captions included with each of the original leaves from "Pages from the past : history of the written word" rare books and manuscripts, a 3 volume set.

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This book was identified from information on the label.

Original manuscript : 31 x 19 cm,Original was inserted in back of Lucubrator.,Holograph.

One clay tablet with Sumerian cuneiform writing from the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BCE) period. This is one of the so-called "messenger texts," that generally list six types of goods (beer, bread, oil, naga, fish, onion) in quite regular quantities. The commodity designated as naga is generally held to be a product derived from an alkali-bearing plant; based on its common attestation together with what were presumably dried fish, this product may in turn have been used in the preparation of fish or other foodstuffs.

Special Collections holds eight cuneiform tablets whose exact provenance is unknown. Seven of the tablets were donated to MU Libraries by the now-defunct Ernest McClary Todd Museum, formerly a part of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. They probably came to the University in the early twentieth century. Tablet MULC 8 (Z113 .P3 1#1 item 1a) was acquired as part of the Pages from the Past collection, which was a portfolio of leaves and artifacts sold by Foliophiles in the 1960s. Six of the tablets date from the Ur III period (2100-2000 BCE), are written in Sumerian, and most likely come from the Umma and Drehem archives. Identifications, translations, and dates for these six tablets were determined in 2012 by Changyu Liu of the University of Heidelberg. The remaining two tablets are thought to be from the Old Babylonian period (1900-1600 BCE) and are currently unedited. Images and complete information about the tablets can be accessed at the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative at the University of California Los Angeles.