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Breeches Bible : [pages 304-305]

Information about book: This is the first English bible with roman type. It was translated according to the Hebrew and Greek. It was named Breeches Bible because in Genesis 3:7, the word breeches referred to an apron, which commented on the size and functionality of this particular pocket bible.

Antiphonary : [1 leaf]

Monastic order or culture of origin unknown. Label card indicates possibly Spanish and from the Seventeenth Century. Musical notation includes five staff notation with square notes with Gothic typography. Recto side has magnified letter "B" in red ink. nTranscription: (recto) Signum cruces cecos il= luminavit, et thesaurus ecclesie, dedit pauperi= bus. [Ca. Magnif. in red] n[in smaller script, to the side, in red: In iis. ups. ad Mag. antiphona.] Beatus Laurenti= us dum in craticula su= perpositus ureretur adn(verso)nimpiisimum tyrannum dixit: assatum est iam versa et man= duca : nam facultates ec= clesie quas requiris in celestes thesaurus manus pauperum depor= taverunt. C. Magnif.

King James Bible : [1 leaf]

Possibly the "He" bible, 2nd edition after the "She" bible. Recto side is printed with Job Chapter 14-(top of) 15 (verses 1-2). Verso side is printed with Job Chapter 15 verses 3-35 – Chapter 16 (verses 1-5). Each chapter is enumerated with Roman numerals and begins with an historiated initial. Chapter titles and description are in Roman type and the verses are in Gothic script. The text is set in two columns with book and chapter annotations are in margins. The top of each side has a brief summary sentence (recto) "The breuitie of mans life."; (verso) "Causes why Job is reprehended."

Lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes : [pages 667-668]

Information about digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on September 11, 2015. Scanning method: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.,Publisher note: North's translation was entered to the French refugee stationer Thomas Vautrollier on 6 April 1579. --Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (viewed on 10/30/2015),Information about the book: North's translation of Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, is taken from the third edition of Jacques Amyot's French translation, printed at Lausanne by François le Preux in 1574. --Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (viewed on 10/30/2015)

Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra, sive, Libri canonici, priscae Iudaeorum ecclesiae a Deo traditi : [pages 155-156]

Information about this leaf : the paper is thin and of fine quality. The type is roman with italic notes. The top edge of the page contains the remains of the original mounting tape.,Information about the digital copy : digitized by University of Missouri--Columbia, MU Libraries on September 11, 2015. Scanning method : 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000 ; cropped using Photoshop.

Annales : The true and royal history of the famous empresse Elizabeth : [pages 365-366]

Information about this leaf: From Annales of Elizabeth (1625) containing pages 365-366 from Book 2 dated 1576. Typography is Roman with selected phrases such as "Queen Elizabeth" and the formal names of figures and countries in italics. Noteworthy on page 365 is the mention of the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II and the succession of his son, Rudolf II. Page 366 tells of the death of Walter Devereux, the 1st Earl of Essex.,This leaf was identified from information on the label.