| Accession Number: | SC 66:02 |
| Location: | RB-M |
| Dates: | 1500 B. C.-1937 |
| Size: | 2 oversize legal Hollingers, 1 small flip-top box; 0.60 cu. ft. |
| Creator/Collector: | Foliophiles, Inc. |
| Acquisition info: | Purchase by SLPL |
| Accruals: | None expected |
| Custodial history: | Purchased in subscription set format by SLPL and housed in Special Collections Department. |
| Language: | Various |
| Processed by: | Renee Jones, October 2012 |
| Conservation notes: | Items individually housed into mylar sleeves and then acid-free folders. |
| Scope and Content: | The collection contains leaves/pages of various examples of the written Word. Items are significant either for the printing method, author, content, or combination thereof. |
| Arrangement: | Collection arranged chronologically |
| Restrictions: | Collection open for research. Special handling required, some items in fragile condition. |
| Remarks: |
Foliophiles, Inc.: Pages from the Past
1500 BC - 1937
2 oversize legal Hollingers; 1 small flip top box; .60 cu. ft.
| Box/Item | Description |
| 1/1 | Book of the Dead, Egyptian papyrus, circa 1500-1100 B.C. (2 envelopes, 8 fragments) |
| 1/2 | Greek papyrus, circa 100 B.C. (1 fragment) |
| 1/3 | Arabic papyrus, circa 800-900 A.D. (2 fragments) |
| 1/4 | Persian manuscripts, 1478-19th Century (7 leaves) |
| 1/5 | Manuscripts, circa 1100-1500, Flemish and Dutch Book of Hours, various German religious manuscripts (5 envelopes, 9 leaves) |
| 1/6 | Julianus Antonius, Candididum Puritatis Lilium, Latin manuscript (2 leaves) |
| 1/7 | Simon de Cremona, Sermones, Latin manuscript, Buxheim 1434 (1 leaf) |
| 1/8 | Los Virtuosos Varones, Portugese manuscript, circa 1450 (2 leaves) |
| 1/9 | Biblia Latina, Venice 1478, Reynsburch and Novimagio (1 leaf) |
| 1/10 | Rollewinck, Werner, Fasciculus Temporum, 5th edition printed by Erhard Ratdolt, Venice 1485 (1 leaf) |
| 1/11 | Bergomensis, Jacobus Philippus, Chronicarum Supplementum, “outline of history” Venice 1486 (2 leaves) |
| 1/12 | Husner, Georg, Vocabularius Praedicantium sire Variloguus, “dictionary” Strassburg 1488 (3 leaves) |
| 1/13 | Cassiodorus, Psalterium Exposito, “commentary on the Psalms” Basle 1491 (3 leaves) |
| 1/14 | Aristotle, Propositions, Venice 1493 (1 leaf) |
| 1/15 | Kempis, Thomas A., Imitation of Christ, Nuremberg 1494 (2 leaves) |
| 1/16 | Gemma Vocabulorum, Deventer 1495 (2 leaves) |
| 1/17 | Bible, Latin, Venice 1497 (3 envelopes, 4 leaves) |
| 1/18 | Brant, Sebastian, Stultefera Navis (Das Narrenschiff/Ship of Fools), Basle 1498 (4 leaves) |
| 1/19 | Horace, 1st ill. ed., printed by Gruninger, Strassburg 1498 (3 leaves) |
| 1/20 | Caro, Hugo de Sancto, Postilla Super Psalterium, Nuremberg 1498 (2 leaves) |
| 1/21 | Breviary, Southern France, 16th Century (4 leaves) |
| 1/22 | Fasciculus Mirre, Roelant Bollaert publisher, Delft circa 1500 (5 leaves) |
| 1/23 | Bromyard, Jean (John), Opus Trivium, Lyons 1500 (2 leaves) |
| 1/24 | Lull, Raimond, Arbor Scientiae, Barcelona 1505 (2 leaves) |
| 1/25 | Boetius, Commentaries, Milan 1512 (4 leaves) |
| 1/26 | Macrobius, Saturnalia, Venice 1513 (4 leaves) |
| 1/27 | Perottus, Nicholas, Cornucopia, Venice 1513 (3 leaves) |
| 1/28 | Sigbert of Grembloux, Chronicon, Paris 1513 (2 leaves) |
| 1/29 | Purbach, George and Regiomontanus, John, Tabulae Eclypsium Vienna 1514 (2 leaves) |
| 1/30 | Collection of Classical Authors (Proclus, Porphyry, Iamblichus and Psellus), Venice 1516 (3 leaves) |
| 1/31 | Nova Legenda Angliae, “legends” of the English saints, London 1516 (3 leaves) |
| 1/32 | Virgil, Aeneid, Lyons 1517 (3 leaves) |
| 1/33 | Book of Hours, printed on vellum, Paris or Lyons 1517 (1 leaf) |
| 1/34 | Hortus Sanitatis, Strassburg 1517 (2 leaves) |
| 1/35 | Las Quatoraze Decadas De Tito Livio (Livy), Saragossa 1520 (3 leaves) |
| 1/36 | Book of Hours, printed on vellum, France 1525 (2 leaves) |
| 1/37 | Balli, Pierre, Postille Majores Cum Questionibus, Lyons 1525 (3 leaves) |
| 1/38 | Lombard, Pierre, Opinions, Lyons 1527 (2 leaves) |
| 1/39 | Quintilian, Twelve Books of the Orations, Paris 1527 (4 leaves) |
| 1/40 | Dante, Divine Comedy, Venice 1529 (3 leaves) |
| 1/41 | Polybius, History, in Greek, Haganau 1530 (2 leaves) |
| 1/42 | Biblia Picturis Illustrata (Latin Bible), printed by Pierre Regnault, Paris 1540 (1 envelope 3 leaves) |
| 1/43 | Bible, Hebrew, printed by Robert Estienne, Paris 1544 (4 leaves) |
| 1/44 | German Manuscript, 1551 (2 leaves) |
| 1/45 | Bible, English, Matthew’s Bible, printed by Nicholas Hyll, London 1551 (5 leaves) |
| 1/46 | Belon, Pierre, De Aquatilibus, crocodile ill., Paris 1553 (1 leaf) |
| 1/47 | Jovius, Paulus, History, Paris 1553 (2 leaves) |
| 1/48 | Josephus, [Works], printed by Jerome Froben, Basle 1554 (3 leaves) |
| 1/49 | Breviary, London 1555 (1 leaf) |
| 1/50 | Magnus, Olaus, Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus, Rome 1555 (4 leaves) |
| 1/51 | Gessner, De Aquitilbus, Historiae Animalium, Zurich 1555 (2 leaves) |
| 1/52 | English Book of Laws, laws passed by Parliament in first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, London 1559 (2 leaves) |
| 1/53 | Munster, Sebastian, Cosmographia Universalis, Basle 1559 (4 leaves) |
| 1/54 | Ovid, Metamorphoses, Venice 1565 (3 leaves) |
| 1/55 | Tartalea, Nicholas, [Work on Euclid], Venice 1565 (2 leaves) |
| 1/56 | Book of Services for Christmas, Holy Week, musical accompaniment, Salamanca 1570 (1 leaf) |
| 1/57 | Pope Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus, Venice 1572 (3 leaves) |
| 1/58 | Bocchi, Archille, Symbolicarum Quaestonum de Universo Genere, Bologne 1574 (1 leaf) |
| 1/59 | Commentariorum in Ordinationes Regia Castellae, Spanish lawbook, Salamanca 1574 (2 leaves) |
| 1/60 | Bible, English N.T., A Catholike and Ecclesiasticall Exposition of the Holy Gospell after St. John, London 1575 (2 leaves) |
| 1/61 | Missal, Roman, Venice 1576 (1 leaf) |
| 1/62 | Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, London 1579 (4 leaves) |
| 1/63 | Bible, Latin, Biblia Sacra, 1st ed. of the first Latin Bible printed in England, Henry Middleton printer, London 1580 (5 leaves) |
| 1/64 | Calvin, John, [Sermons], London 1583 (3 leaves) |
| 1/65 | Estatutos Generales de Barcelona, Mexico 1585 (2 leaves) |
| 1/66 | Valverdo, Juan de Harmusco, Anatome Corporis Humani, Venice 1585 (1 leaf) |
| 1/67 | Heresbach, Conrad, Four Books on Husbandry, London 1596 (3 leaves) |
| 1/68 | Chaucer, Geoffrey, Collected Works, London 1598 (1 leaf) |
| 2/1 | Amydenius, Theodorus, manuscript, 17th Century (1 leaf) |
| 2/2 | Lippi, Lorenzo (Perlone Zipoli), Malmantile Racquistato, 17th Century (3 leaves) |
| 2/3 | Bible, New Testament in English, anonymous translation made at Douai and Rheims, printed by Daniel Vervliet, Antwerp 1600 (4 leaves) |
| 2/4 | van den Velde, Jan, Spieghel der Schriftkonste, Rotterdam 1605 (1 leaf) |
| 2/5 | Bible, English, King James “Protestant translation, or Authorized ersion”, 1st ed. “He” Bible, printed by Robert Barker, London 1611 (4 eaves) |
| 2/6 | Sandys, George, Book of European Travels, London 1615 (2 leaves) |
| 2/7 | Mexia, Pedro, Nuova Seconda Selva, Venice 1616 (1 leaf) |
| 2/8 | Bible, Hebrew, Pentateuch, printed by Pierre de la Roviere, Geneva 1617- 8 (2 leaves) |
| 2/9 | Ludolphus of Saxony, Life of Jesus Christ, printed by Peter van Ghelen, ntwerp 1618 (3 leaves) |
| 2/10 | Callot, Jacques, etching, 1621-1631 (1 leaf) |
| 2/11 | Irish law book, Statues of Ireland from the reign of King Edward up to and including part of that of James I, Dublin 1621 (2 leaves) |
| 2/12 | Simson, Archibald, Hieroglyphica, printed by Thomas Finlason, printer to His Majesty, Edinburgh 1622-23 (2 leaves) |
| 2/13 | Camden, William, Annalles of Elizabeth, London 1625 (1 leaf) |
| 2/14 | Republic Series, much-prized volume on France in pocket library of travel books, Ezevir printing, Leyden 1626 (3 leaves) |
| 2/15 | Bible, Latin, “Vulgate Edition”, Plantin Press, Antwerp 1628 (5 leaves) |
| 2/16 | Burton, Robert, Anatomy of Melancholy, printed by John Lichfield, Oxford 1632 (3 leaves) |
| 2/17 | Gerard, John, Herball, comprehensive medico-botanical treatise, London 1635 (2 leaves) |
| 2/18 | History of Savoy, Republic Series, miniature book printed by house of Elzevir, Leyden 1634 (4 leaves) |
| 2/19 | Guillim, John, Display of Heraldrie, London 1638 (3 leaves) |
| 2/20 | Church of England, Book of Rituals, printed by Robert Barker, London 1639 (1 leaf) |
| 2/21 | Empresas Politicas, Monaco 1640 (4 leaves) |
| 2/22 | Jonson, Benjamin, Works, London 1640 (3 leaves) |
| 2/23 | Symbola Politica, Elsiver miniature engraving, Amsterdam mid-17th Century (2 leaves) |
| 2/24 | Piso, William, De Indiae Utriusque, Re Naturali et Medica, printed by Elzevirs, Amsterdam 1658 (2 leaves) |
| 2/25 | Costumes de Touraine, Tours 1661 (1 leaf) |
| 2/26 | Bible, German, miniature, Frankfurt am Main 1664 (5 engravings) |
| 2/27 | Mather, Increase, sermon, American incunable leaf 1665 (3 leaves) |
| 2/2/8 | Ethico Politicorum, book of emblems, Heidelberg 1666 (3 leaves) |
| 2/29 | Bible, “Biblia Sacra” Vulgate Editionis, edited by Popes Sextus V and Clemens VIII, Venice 1669 (3 leaves) |
| 2/30 | Ripa, Cesare, Iconologia, amplifications by Giovanni Zaratino Castellini, printed by Niccolo Pezzana, from the library of William Morris, Venice 1669 (3 leaves) |
| 2/31 | Spanhemius, Ezechiel, Numisatum Antiquorum, printed by Daniel Elsiver, Amseterdam 1671 (3 leaves) |
| 2/32 | Virorum Illustrium, portraits of Augustinian monks and nuns, printed by George Czernoch, Prague 1674 (1 leaf) |
| 2/33 | Bible. N.T. Greek, printed by house of Elzevir, Amersterdam 1678 (1 leaf) |
| 2/34 | Phillips, Edward, New World of Words, English dictionary, London 1678 (3 leaves) |
| 2/35 | Bible, first printed translation into Irish of the Old Testament, London 1685 (4 leaves) |
| 2/36 | Shakespeare, Fourth Folio, London 1685 (1 leaf) |
| 2/37 | Mackenzie, Sir George, Observations on the Acts of Parliament, Edinburgh 1686 (2 leaves) |
| 2/38 | Bizot, Pierre, Medalische Historie der Republyk van Holland, 2nd. ed, Amsterdam 1690 (2 leaves) |
| 2/39 | England Parliamentary Acts, reign of William III, London 1695-8 (2 leaves) |
| 2/40 | Maimonides, Constitutiones de jure jurando, Leyden 1706 (1 leaf) |
| 2/41 | Salvini, Antonmaria, Sonnets, Florence 1728 (2 leaves) |
| 2/42 | Gardiner, William, Tables of Logarithms, London 1742 (2 leaves) |
| 2/43 | Bentley, Richard, Lucan’s Pharsalia, printed from private press of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill 1760 (4 leaves) |
| 2/44 | Bible, German, 3rd ed. of Christopher Saur’s German Bible, Germantown, Pennsylvania 1776 (4 leaves) |
| 2/45 | Hawney, Wm., The Complete Measurer, Irish textbook, Dublin 1785 (3 leaves) |
| 2/46 | Taylor, C., [Collection of Stipple Engravings], London 1786 (4 leaves) |
| 2/47 | Anacreon, Bion and Moschus, I. B. Bodonius, Regis Catholici Typographus Parma 1791 (2 leaves) |
| 2/48 | The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episocopal Church, printed y Parry Hall, Philadelphia 1792 (3 leaves) |
| 2/49 | Shakespeare, Works, first edition of Shakespeare printed in America, published by Bioren and Madan at Philadelphia 1796 (3 leaves) |
| 2/50 | Fowler, Andrew, The Lessons of the Episcopal Church, published by Blauvelt, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1798 (3 leaves) |
| 2/51 | The Confession of Faith, printed by T. & J. Swords, New York 1799 (3 leaves) |
| 2/52 | Scott, Sir Walter, Marmion, 1st ed. printed by J. Ballantyne, Edinburgh 1808 (1 leaf) |
| 2/53 | Iliad [Miniature], printed by N. Bliss, Oxford 1810 (3 leaves) |
| 2/54 | Aesop, Fables with Designs on Wood by Thomas Bewick, printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, Newcastle-on-Tyne 1823 (3 leaves) |
| 2/55 | Horace [Miniature], “microscopique” type designed by Didot, published by A. Mesneir, Paris 1828 (4 leaves) |
| 2/56 | Bible, English, Icones Veteris Testamenti, William Pickering from designs by Holbein, printed by Charles Whittingham of Chiswick Press, London 1830 (5 leaves) |
| 5/57 | S.C. Hall, Book of Gems, the poets and artists of Great Britain, Saunders and Otley, London 1837 (3 leaves) |
| 5/58 | Emmons, Ebenezer, Natural History of Lithography, published by the State of New York, printed by Charles Van Bentuysen, Albany 1851 (4 leaves) |
| 2/59 | Audubon, 2nd ed. Quadrapeds, New York 1856 (2 leaves) |
| 2/60 | Murray, Lindley, Murray’s English Grammar, printed by Robert Davis & Co., Boston 1856 (3 leaves) |
| 2/61 | Catholic Church, Missal, printed by J. Claye, Paris 1858 (2 leaves) |
| 2/62 | Gallery of English and American Poets, printed by C. Sherman & Son and published by E. H. Butler & Co., Philadelphia 1859 (4 leaves) |
| 2/63 | Goudy’s Ladies Book, Philadelphia 1860 (2 leaves) |
| 2/64 | Wardrop, Oliver, Book of Wisdom and Lies, printed at Kelmscott Press, London 1894 (1 leaf) |
| 2/65 | Morris, William, Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, printed at Kelmscott Press, London 1895 (1 leaf) |
| 2/66 | Lamb, Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales founded on the Plays of Shakespeare, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, printed by J. M. Dent & Co., London 1909 (2 ill.) |
| 2/67 | Moore, Sir Thomas, Utopia, limited ed. Bruce Rogers folio, Rudge Press, New York 1937 (3 leaves) |
| 3/- | Egyptian Scarab with hieroglyphics, c.a. 1000 B. C. |
