Fasciculus mirre : [1 leaf]

Information about this leaf: This leaf is from a work on the Life of Christ. The manuscript was printed to resemble early handwritten vellum codices and has filigreed initial letters and rubrications in red and blue. It also has a colored woodcut depicting an episode in the Life of Christ.,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.

Biblia sacra Veteris & Novi Testamenti juxta Vulgatam, quam dicunt, editionem : [pages 29-30]

Information about this leaf: Printed in roman type with woodcut initial letters. Marginal notes are meant to show where the Latin translation differs from the Hebrew and Greek originals to give a more literal meaning of certain words and sentences.n--from the label,Information about this book: this book was printed by the heirs of Carola Guillard and Claude Chevallon. eventually the various edition of Benedictus were placed on the "Index Expurgatorius," which was the Catholic Church's list of books that were forbidden to read.,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.

Physique sacrée ou histoire-naturelle de la Bible : [1 leaf]

Information about this leaf: This leaf is a copper-plate engraving of Elijah being fed by ravens in the Kerith Valley. The Latin caption underneath the engraving on the left reads:n "1. REG. Cap. XVII. v. 1-6 nElias corvorum alumnus" or translated into English,n"1 Kings 17:1-6 nElijah being nourished by ravens."nOpposite, the caption is repeated in German.nThis engraving is TAB. CCCCLXVIII (468) in the Physique Sacrée and can be found in Book Five. The entire eight volume book has been digitized and can be found in the Virtual Library of Bibliographical Heritage by following this link: <a href="http://bvpb.mcu.es/en/consulta/resultados_busqueda.cmd?posicion=1&forma=ficha&id=2375">Physique Sacrée</a>,Information about this book: The label attributes the engravings to Swiss artist J.M. Fuessli, but records in WorlCat agree that the engravings are actually the work of Johann Andreas Pfeffel. This book contains a total of 760 engravings spread across eight volumes, focusing on physical phenomena and natural history in the Bible. Scheuchzer was a Swiss mathematician, physicians, and naturalist.,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.

Fasciculus mirre : [1 leaf]

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.

Vulgate Bible : [1 leaf]

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.

Biblia Latina : [1 leaf]

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.

Liber sententiarum : [1 leaf]

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.

Missale ratisponense : [1 leaf]

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.

Opera et libri vite fratris Thome de Kempis ordinis canonicorum regularium, quorum titulos vide in primo folio : [1 leaf]

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.

Sermones : [1 leaf]

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.

Officium Beate Marie Virginis : [1 leaf]

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.

Religious Dutch manuscript, circa 1450 : [1 leaf]

Information about this leaf: This manuscript is written on vellum in gothic German with red and blue initial letters.,Information about this digital copy: Information about 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.

Biblia, das ist die gantze heilige Schrifft Deudsch : [138-139]

Information about this leaf: Printed in a German type know as fraktur with at least three different type sizes. There are also woodcut initial letters in both gothic and roman style and marginal note, both in type and handwritten.,Information about this book: This book was an important work for both literary and political reasons. Martin Luther, by choosing his vocabulary with scrupulous care, "endowed Germany with a uniform literary language."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.

Coptic Bible : [1 leaf]

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.

Biblia picturis illustrata: [pages 85-86]

Book identified using information on label.,Book information: Some of the woodcuts were done by Johannes Frank, and these wear his initials. However, others in the text are done by the publisher, who, like many printers at the time, included designing and woodcutting into his repertoire.

Postille majores cum questionibus : [pages 230-231]

Information about the book: This is a book of devotions for the whole year, with a focus on scripture.,Information about this page: The typography of this book is in a lettre de forme, which is a type of gothic script. This is a deviation from the standard Paris printers using the lettre batarde. There are two small woodcut illustrations of people, one featured on each side of the page. The elaborate woodcut initials are also featured at the start of new sections.,Biographical information: The author, Petro Bailly, was both the writer and publisher of this piece. His name was orginally Pierre Balli (which is given in the books informational card) but on the OCLC record of this book (viewed 10-26-15) he is called Petro Bailly. According to his family heritage website, he changed his name before moving to North America.,Information on local copy: There is little staining throughout the page, and the text is still a very heavy black ink. On 231 there is some black line markings, and tape marks on top of both sides of page.,Publication information: 1525 is the year listed on the colophon, however, 1526 is the year listed on the OCLC record.

Mathew's Bible : [1 leaf]

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.